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Show 'Twixt Us Teens if you would study your face carefully care-fully . . study your coloring, your bom; structure . . if you would think seriously on what thing's delight de-light you and what things repulse you and then settle for wnat you can do best, you'd be a more appealing ap-pealing person. Any one would rather have a real diamond, however small it might be, than a huge imitation of by Tibhy Tucker So who are you ? So what do you like . . . how-do how-do you think? On Thursday at school you agree with Jane that Elvis is strictly from points great. Come Friday night you hear yourself adding fuel to the fire your date is building, he's so burned up at Presley's popularity. the stone. So it is with people. They'd rather have the best of you you can give the world than see you as one crazy-mixed up imitation imita-tion of umpteen others. Something to think on for all of us . . . be sure that our opinions are our own through study, talking, talk-ing, listening, learning, thinking and observing. Bo sure that our taste in music, art, clothes, movies, people is our own . . . not somebody else's. I, Tibby, urge teens to be individualistic. indi-vidualistic. It's for good for you that way. Monday a.m. you find yourself looking longingly at Joan's coif and you take time out in the rest room to brush your hair way, way back behind your ears. But at youth meeting Tuesday you look at Lorna and decide that the long contour page boy is your favorite hair-do after all and you go home and try your best to copy Lorna. You talk like Peggy one minute . . . act like Jeannie the next. You have your friends in a hot stew. I, Tibby, have heard teens talk about chameleon-like teens. Why, they may think you're the greatest, FASHION FAD: Shimmering nails (that look for all the world like something from the dead or so say some of the boys) of frosty platinum are popular among the teen queens in town these days. And for date time, these sparkling fingertips are wonderful compliments compli-ments to gleaming pearl earrings and a slim black sheath. This . . for the older teens to be sure. But it's definitely a trend to use clear laquer or the frosty type on nails because there is no color clash that way. And who has time to change polish every time you change clothes? RECORD RATINGS: Be sure to drop in to your favorite disc counter count-er and ask to hear Berlioz: "Harold but they never know what to expect ex-pect of you. They never know what you'll be like. They don't know if you are being truthful or telling a story, they hear so many different expressions of your ideas. So they're uneasy about you. Well, maybe YOU aren't really like that. Maybe, though, you are a little wish-washy, a little mug-wumpy, mug-wumpy, a little changey-mangey. I, Tibby, suggest that you stop as of now, right now! Go look at YOU in the nearest mirror. Dust off your specs . . . and maybe the mirror. This must be a good clear look. An honest appraisal of one's self is bound to bring about a few thinpe vnilM liko tn eVinncr TWa-ir- I be Lorna's hairdo is really best for you. If it is stick to it (with a slight change to suit your facial structure) until something better comes along. But as for wishing you could be someone else entirely . . forget it. You can't! No matter how you change your hair, change your lingo, change your thinking. You're still you. And you have a charm all your own. Though ten to one it's buried way down somewhere beneath all the clutter of your trying to be twenty other people at the same time. It's good to have a moment for yourself. I, Tibby, am sure that in Italy" with Toscanini and the NBC Symphony in a really great performance of this dramatic tone poem. Listen to it, let your taste develop, artd your soul thrill. And listen for fun to some folk music to go along with your alpine print dresses and Swiss car coats. And this is a new release, indicating indicat-ing a definite trend to continental stuff . . it's "Springtime in the Tyrols" and the liveliest collection of folk songs, polkas, yodel-e-hoos ever collected on one label. By the Preinfalk Choir and orchestra on a Vanguard label. HOLLYWOOD HITS: Favorites of the week with your set "Friendly "Friend-ly Persuasion," starring Gary Cooper, with Anthony Perkins (the newest, most exciting tiling in a teen's life, I mean!) as the teenage teen-age son. Well, it's one wonderful show. Carolyn Budd recommends June Allyson's "You Can't Run Away From It." TEEN OF THE WEEK: Deanne Simmons of Highland High who is in everything over there and really stirs up excitement in school affairs. af-fairs. She's a pepper, a live-wire, a girl who makes memories and traditions for the sake of the school. She's the best. |