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BY DOROTHY TOWNSEND At -J a.m any! school day 17-year-old Nanry Mitchell Is In a chemistry lab class At 8 p.m. she is on stage In Phil harmonic Between 8 and 8 there are rehearsals, another three hours of classroom work and, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, matinees. The day ends at midnight Days are long for. all the 10 students who attend the one-room backstage school at the Fhllharmonlc as members of the cast of "By Bye Birdie." As Its early day counterpart did, this one-room school accommodates a variety of ages, grades and subjects. While In session In California it conforms to the California education code, when In Oregon It meets that state's requirements, In Texas that state's.

There are problems. Said one student: "My school was out a week ago but California schools are still In session so I have to keep going." Said another 16-year-old, Please Turn to Pf. 7, Col. US SJ L' All A v' -Pi )-Vc i DOUBLE DUTY keepi young people in cast of "Bye Bye Birdie" on their toes, loth on stage and off. If not rehearsing, as ara Joan Conrath, 14, and Sherry Jo Miller, 15, foreground left, they are apt to be poring over books in improvised classroom in auditorium.

Cities "on road" assign tutors for "on go" students OF SMITH AND IEN JEAN HOLLOWAY THE She Writes Fine Scripts, Yearns to Act Them Out Tensions That Develop on Walks for Fun and Health PART II 0 I to the misty green hills and cha3e the capricious little ball over the dewy glens and dells in the morning chill. However, I found that as my-game improved, I was- BY MARY LOU LOPER What we need in television today is more romance. This is the opinion of Jean Holloway, a blond bundle of literary energy about whom Daily Variety recently said: "If an Emmy were awarded for the most versa FRIDAY MORNING JUNE 9, 1961 you don't actually have to do it. As Truman's doctor says, "You're better off not doing it than worrying about whether to do it or not." 4fI-could just have ap-proached golf or tennis that way, I might still be playing them. ON GIFTED CHILD BY JACK SMITH Today I took my first walk.

I decided to try Harry Truman's prescription and walk for fun and health. I've sensed for years that I needed exercise. But nothing I've tried has been quite suitable. Right, after the war, the do-it-yourself fad kept me fit. It was not without peril.

Once I leaned into a 5-dn. electric saw and sawed through my belt. But it kept me toned up. Public Responds to Times Series SMITH tile, protean writerof the craft Miss Holloway would win hands down." Jean Holloway has won hands down almost from the very beginning. She went to New York during 6pring vacation at San Jose State College.

A friend presented a script to Young Rubicam for the Kate Smith Hour. It was accepted. Jean never went back to school. For two years she tailor-wrote material for the guest stars on Kate Smith's weekly show. "It was severe training," she said, "but I would wish it on any young writer." Like Lightning Radio credits struck like lightning: Mayor of the Town, The Don Ameche Show, The Francis Lang-ford Show, The Railroad Hour, TheJIallmark Play-houseTDr.

Kildare, Lux Radio Theater, Cavalcade of America, Mr. President and The Colgate Theater of playing it more and enjoying it less. This was ex-plained to me by a friend who is a serious student of the game and says he once met the late Geoge Von Elm at a cocktail party. Most everything challenging has long since been done. There's only a little maintenance work around the place, of the sort that a woman can easily do, such as occasional glazing and roofing.

For a while I thought tennis might be my meat. My wife and I bought rackets and went at it rather spiritedly. Some of the regulars down at the courts said they thought I had a flair for the game. It wa3 said that I rushed the net wellL although not always at the proper moment. Letters from Southland parents have been received in response to the recent two-part series on educating the gifted child by Mary: Ann Callan in the Family Section.

Here are excerpts of their representative comments: "As the mother of four shulJ be Placed In children and the wife of a JU" hgh' The hope of the future pediatrician, I cannot more ia in stimulating each heartily agree with the par- child's mind to the utmost, ents whose complaint is In this the public grade that there are no facilities tnd Mgh schools for the gifted child in our WTt-'" public schools. MRS-w-R- M'CLUSKET, "Continued good study Westchester, habits are not being formed due to the lack of home- work and -school follow My parents wanted for through and a lot of U3, two children to have a problems occurring for the solld school foundation. Ev- gifted child stem from the ry afternoon Mama taught fact that at grade school us lonS before scho1 aSe. level no provisions have reading, writing, arithme- beenmade. tic.

Every evening Papa re- mmiiim mxim i ASWflMA WB SiMMBaiuht)fcjjii fe" I walked about two miles today, which was perhaps overdoing it for a start. 1 made the error of setting off downhill. By the time 1 got to the corner, I was too tired to start back up, I had to rest a while at the P-M Cafe. As I was walking home, a police car passed me, going slow. I could see the policeman was studying me with his peripheral vision.

I'm told they have to have excellent peripheral vision to get on the force. He drove on a way and made a U-turn, making another pass at me. Suddenly-! remembered I didn't have my Wallet. I was seized with apprehension. What if he stopped to question me? I couldn't prove who I was.

I would be arrested as a vagrant! I wouldn't know what to say. It had been years since I'd been out walking alone. How could I explain not being in a car? The policeman drove on and vanished around a corner. I hurried home. I flung myself down on the couch.

I was perspiring. It had been a narrow escape. Maybe I'll stick with golf and try not to break 80. As my play became more nearly Jiawless, this friend said I would become increasingly tense and irritable. Golf would no longer be a relaxing sport.

It would become a demon, a burden, a monkey on my back. "By the time you're playing regularly in the low 70s," he told me, "you'll blow your stack every time you shoot a bogie." I had to give it up. I'm tense enough already. So Truman's advice caught me at a receptive moment. One thing I like about his philosophy is that once you decide to take a daily walk for exercise.1 "The greatest obstacle ceived his report on our v- uioidiess.

auv sister aau i progress. My iiaa uccil uic Ufa ui tuu 1 formity, in believing that wC oil UiM fu knew there were no ex- I might have gone on with tennis, but I have weak eyes and when I look up into the sky on a sunny day I sneeze. This didn't do my serve any good. Besides, my wife got a blister on her heel. Then golf looked like the answer for a time.

I love the clothes and trappings and camaraderie of the game and the atmosphere. It lifts the spirit of a deskbound city man to escape into -the average pattern cuses a lowed for not learn- 1 cr iitoII Pans Hrrvulrt nut ing well. Papa would put set by the educators, us over his knee and give as parents spend much time explaining and a Sood inking exploring knowledge with to remember, our children. A far greater So the first day at emphasis in academic learn- Please Turn to Pg. 8, Col.

1 ORGANIZATIONS ELECT New Officers Begin Season in Sun JEAN HOLLOWAY the current market is devoid of romance. Timet pM Bluecoat Gomes Up With a Greenback BY MART MATTHEW, Times Society Editor In company with brides William G. Cooper, Ronald Then came her stint at MGM "Til the Clouds Roll By," "Vord3 and Music," and "Summer Holiday." Then television situation comedy 500 episodes, for The First Hundred Years. Then more video credits: Bing Crosby's spectaculars, Ford spectaculars VI Hear America Singing" and "The Day Lincoln Waa The Thin Man, The Loretta Young Show, and on and on. More recently she has contributed 30 episodes to Wagon Train, a program which rated first or second among network shows during her efforts.

Never a Western But Jean Holloway denies that she has ever written a western. "To me," she said, "a "western' is a shoot-'em-down thing. Wagon Train ha3 never been guilty of catering to senseless violence. It literally is a history of America, of people who actually crossed the plains. It's realism based on painstaking research." Jean Holloway insists that "success has not been an unmixed blessing." She's lived with an unfulfilled ambition to be an actress.

She is the wife of actor Dan Tobin. While enrolled In a writ-; lng-acting class at San Jose, Fleate Turn te Pf. 5, CoL 1 K. wniara l. tarr Donald B.

Guy, E. Ran- Edward kin Goerz, BY JOHN BARNES 'i -v i and graduates, new officers of organizations are on the receiving end of congratulations each June. On Tuesday at a meeting and luncheon rt Upper Bel-Air Bav Club Mrs. Willard N. Sheller will be installed as president of the Junior League of Los Angeles.

Other new officers and board members include Mmes. Edward P. Call. Ellsworth H. Kendig Darby Maner, Charles T.

Munger, John T. Ragan, L. Lang-don Taylor, Ira A. Marshall Patrick A. Doheny and Robert H.

Armstrong Jr. More are Quinn Brady, Forbes, James A. McMahan, Edwin A. Meserve II, Herbert E. Philbrook Fulton W.

Haight, Richard N. Gabigan, William N. West, David W. Simpson, Andrew L. Maverick, Stanford Jol-ley Gilbert F.

Roswell, William F. Clements. Harry F. Haldeman, Woodward M. Taylor James A.

Francis and Gerald E. Porter. Mrs. Felix S. McGinnia Jr.

heads th new slate of officers of Juniors of the Social Service Auxiliary, who will have a provision- riease Tnra to Pf. CoL 1 Here are some kids who are convinced a cop has a heart. Lon Bell and Lyn Hardy had invited their dates to dinner on campus at Cal-tech. As usual one of the girls was late too late for a campus dinner. So they ate out and when it came time to go to the movies they found they were one dollar short Lon tried to cash a check at a gas station across the road but the answer was no.

Then he saw a patrolman at the corner of the block, went up to him and said: "Sir, I'm a junior at Cal-tech and I want to take my (fate to a movie but I'm a dollar short Please, could you lend me a dollar." Patrolman Bob Burns looked at him, put his hand in his pocket, hauled out a greenback, said "Here you are, son." The youngsters saw their movie. Patrolman Burns got his dollar back the next day. MRS. CHASE WANGLIN MRS. FELIX McGLNMS JR.

MRS. LEVEKXE GRAVES Now presidents are inaUlled.