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Show a closed hook itEn nntntnvirit inms unit by Marilyn Beck NO ONE will write a book about my life, Robert Young said. Not if I have any control over the matter. I have been approached by publishers time and again, but I simply have a deep aversion to exposing private matters for public inspection. The statement would not have seemed startling had it not been made by a man whos made his life such an open book, whos talked so freely about such intimate matters as crippling childhood shyness and adulthood alcoholic problems. Its not that I have any skeletons in my closet left to hide, he laughed. Its just, well, Im not sure I even quite understand my feelings. Id probably have to submit to deep psychoanalysis before I did . . . BELIEVE ME, I am not Criticizing the personalities who do consent to publi cation of their biographies. I understand such books are selling well today. I cant criticize them any more than I would find fault with the stars who lend their talents to commercials. Its simply that my personal policy has always been to reject such things. His smile grew broader. My wife, Betty, has even been approached about putting her name to a text that would play on the title of my old Father Knows Best series, something like The Best of Father. And one publisher even was interested in Betty pute to a book ting her about How a Hollywood Marriage Can Survive for 40 Years. WHERE DO you get the answers to something like that? I dont know how a marriage lasts that long even in Peoria. He paused. I must teli by-lin- you, even if I knew the the impression he creates is merely a fragile facade. There was a time, at the very beginning, when I actually considered giving up the business, when the feeling built that a successful actor could not be so frightfully introverted. BUT THEN I began to discover that many of my colleagues were inflicted with the same innate shyness that I possessed. And I grew to realize it is our very profession that gives us the one chance to be socially outgoing. We put on the mask of the character were portraying and suddenly we feel bold, like a total person. It allows the intensely shy person the opportunity to participate in life, the freedom to escape from his shell while still retaining a certain sense of privacy. He has improved tremendously in recent years, he See Page 12 ; His to smiling dignity used to be just a pose cover fear inside, says Robert Young. Service COLOR OR BLACK & WHITE Quality an- swers I couldnt reveal them for print. There are things about me that only Betty knows, and if she revealed them, it would mean we were abdicating our private life for the sake of publicity. Betty- - puts up with the way I feel. Shes had a long time to get used to the fact shes married to a neurotic introvert." He still regards himself that way: as the shy, retiring neurosis-lade- n person he was as a young man. ANYONE who has met Robert Young in recent years knows that such a description couldnt be more inappropriate. Outgoing and friendly, with a remarkable warmth that makes him want to know about you and your problems, he is, at 66, Marcus Welby come to life. And yet, from his vantage inside looking out point BUSIN1SS PORTRAIT PASSPORT! APPLICATION PORTRAIT! NO AS LOW AS SITTING i CHARGE -- 95 FOft smvici bay - NO Utah's "Quality" lV: A. PORTRAIT STUDI05 IT 3. er - co for nearly 30 years. a PASSPORTS PASSPORTS U .1$ jq sM e. u -- i PORTRAIT EXECUTIVE PORTRAITS TRAVEL" r CLOSED WEDNESDAY O MISSIONARY O V co E. H OPEN: 6 DAYS MON.-SA- T. 2 NIGHTS MON. & FRI. SPECIALTIES t" BLACK & WHITE IN LAB. APPOINTMENT NECESSARY OUR COLOR W, STUDIOS ; 221 So. State , Downtown Salt LokoCity 'jor ooiiI ql W00V ivv A o -- uj FREE PARKINS k Rear Withta 10 Ft. of Our Boon J a |