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] DEAR MRS. LAWRENCE: Last spring we told our 5-year
.old daughter that she was an adopted child. Since then she
has become very attention-demanding. She pushes past me at
the door to hug and kiss my husband when he comes home
at night and even gets ugly and sullen if I spend any time
talking to a neighbor. We haven’t scolded her for this as we
do not want her to feel unloved and rejected. But it is be
coming a real problem . . .
ANSWER: Why are you afraid to “reject” her demands
for continual attention? Because she now knows that her
natural parents “rejected” her? By indulging all her de
mands, are you now trying to persuade her to forget it? Are
you trying to erase her memory of that original denial by
now denying her nothing she demands?
If that’s what you’re up to, I must insist that you have no
right is to do that. The truth that her natural parents discarded
her one she’s got to learn to live with just as you have to
live with the truth that you can bear no children.
It is your own feeling that desertion of her by those nat
ural parents was a terrible thing that has also convinced her
that it’s terrible—so terrible that she has to keep reassuring
herself that you won’t abandon her, too. She uses this over
demanding behavior to do it.
Next time she pushes past you at the door, put your arm
around her and say, ‘ No, tonight it’s my turn to kiss daddy
first. Tomorrow it will be your turn again.”
There’s nothing especially awful in being an adopted child,
you know. Indeed, if one’s adoptive parents are brave and
of self-accepting the people, you are extremely fortunate to be free
scared, self-distrusting people who begot you.
You re much more fortunate than millions of children who
grow up with natural parents who don’t like them. So you’d
better get over this notion that possession of one’s natural
parents guarantees us perfect happiness. It does not. To be
born is to begin to experience limitations on our demands, no
matter whom we grow up with. So seeing an adopted child’s
'rejection” by his natural parents as especially brutal ex
perience is sentimental and out of touch.
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Parents of Adopted Child
Should Not Be Indulgent
By MURIEL LAWRENCE
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
TV CAMEOS: The Avengers
Diana and Pat Come Swooping Back
By MEL HEIMEK
LOVE IS lovelier the second
time around, according- to the
Tin Pan Alley aria—and Diana
Rigg and Patrick Macnee have
their fingers crossed in the hope
that the same yardstick can be
applied to TV.
Qiana and Pat, a couple of
British actors with that great
background of repertory and
the province* that gives Eng
lish performers such an edge
on Americans, are the stars of
“The Avengers," the immensely
successful spy adventure series
that ABC-TV brought to the
States last spring.
With Miss Rigg as the ka
rate-practicing Emma Peel and
Macnee playing undercover
agent John Steed who would be
happier as a Regency buck in
the reign of George III, the
show turned out to be witty,
satirical and exciting—but it
had, after all, only come In as
a late-season replacement and
when summer arrived, “The
Avengers” vanished.
* * *
EVEN over at ABC, where
most of the executives had be
come fans of the program, the
resultant public response wasn't
entirely expected. Thousands of
letters poured into the net
work's New York headquarters
and Into TV newspaper and
magazine editors’ offices. The
tone of the messages was to the
point: bring back "The Aven
gers” or we’ll stop watching
ANYTHING on your old net
work.
ABC didn’t have to be hit on
the head more than once—so
come Jan. 20 (10-11 p.m., EST),
Emma and John will be cavort
ing around on the idiot screen
once more, plaguing the bad
guys in style. The producers’
high hopes don't seem unwar
ranted, since spy shows still are
high in the ratings, as witness
“U.N.C.L.E." and "I Spy.”
The program’s stars did not,
of course, blossom overnight.
Tall, freckled, auburn-haired Di
ana (she says her weight “fluc
tuates") is a Yorkshire girl,
raised in India, who attended
the Royal Academy of Drama
tic Art for two years, modeled
for a while and finally hooked
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LOVING A PARADE like youngsters anywhere, these South Vietnamese children tag
along with the First Infantry Division Band as it entertains citizens of a hamlet in
South Vietnam.
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out of a Victorian album—but they mesh beautifully
to make "The Avenger*" one of the best spy series.
on with the Royal Shakespeare
Company at Stratford-on-Avon,
where she went from bit parts
to star roles In five years. When
she played Adriana in "The
Comedy of Errors” at a Royal
Command performance in Wind
sor Castle, the TV people went
after her for the Emma Peel
role.
* • •
MACNEE is a bit more fa
miliar to American audiences.
He toured here in the late 1950s
with the Old Vic troupe, went
to Hollywood for a part in "Les
Girls” and stayed there for four
years, doing most of the top
TV dramatic programs. Indeed,
Patrick still owns a house in
Malibu Beach.
The tall, hazel-eyed Briton
(he's Scots-English) is 44 and
has played John Steed since the
the series began; actually, tha
role was created for him, sine®
many of his tastes and habita
of speech and dresa are sim«
liar to the agent’s. Macnee,
Eton-educated, started acting in
school when he played Queen
Victoria—but there’s nothing
effete about him. During World
War II he was commander of
a Royal Navy torpedo boat
prowling the North Sea.
• • •
HE'S a cousin of David Niven,
with whom he appeared in “The
Elusive Pimpernel,” and early
in the 1950s he lived in. Canada
for two years while starring in
a TV series, “The Moonstone.”
Actress Catherine Woodville is
his wife and whenever they can,
they riee their London flat to
go horseback-riding in th® Eng
lish countryside.