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Griffin Daily News
Forget your age,
actress advises
By PEGGY WALKER
Copley News Service
Marjorie Lord is one of those
ageless beauties who never
thinks about age in terms of
years, and never, never tells
her own age.
“An actress never should,”
said the stage and television
star who is called on to play
roles 10 years either side of her
own age.
“It’s one of the secrets of
beauty. The minute you
identify with an age, you limit
yourself. You start shaping
your personality to that age.”
Her one word of beauty
advice to American women
would be to take a cue from
European women and “stop
being so age conscious — stop
counting.”
Miss Lord, who is playing the
lead role in the touring stage
play “Forty Carats,” never
started counting.
She played Danny Thomas’
attractive television wife six
years on the “Make Room for
Daddy" series and came back
with the unchanged good looks
and verve she started with
when the program reappeared
last fall as “Make Room for
Granddaddy."
Off stage the tiny-waisted,
strawberry-red-haired actress
is the mother of a daughter. 22,
and a son, 24.
At nearly 5 feet 5 and 115
pounds, she has a figure to rival
that of her starlet daughter Ann
Archer
She stays trim by eating
sensibly. “I eat everything but
in sensible proportions,” and
by watching her clothes, not the
scale.
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“If my clothes feel tight, I go
on an egg-grapefruit-meat diet
for three days.”
She comes by a porcelain
skin akin to that of a Dresden
doll naturally.
No special cosmetics, no
beauty secrets. Unfair? She
said a weekly honey and
almond facial and a weekly
massage — “except when I’m
working” — help. “Good cir
culation is very important to
the skin.’’
Her hair, in the soft, dassic
style fans will remember from
the TV series, is kept that way
for the man across the real
breakfast table, her producer
husband Randolph Hale,
“because he likes it natural —
no funny hairpieces.”
Miss Lord’s married son
lives in Del Mar, Calif., and is a
Navy pilot stationed aboard the
Enterprise in Southeast Asia.
Her daughter, a dark-haired
version of herself, has inherited
her mother’s penchant for
acting as well as her classic
beauty.
Mrs. William Smith of
Beverly Hills but Ann Archer
on the screen, she has appeared
on several TV series and is
making her motion picture
debut in “All American Boy”
with John Voight. “You may
not have heard of her yet,” said
Miss Lord, “but you will.’’
Her mother had this advice
for her daughter, who called
during an interview to question
her about a new role:
“Play the part right out of
yourself," Miss Lord told her
daughter. “There’s a part of all
these people inside each of us.”
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BEAUTY BEFORE AGE—Yean don’t count with actress Marjorie Lord. In fact, she refuses to
add them up. Currently touring In “Forty Carats,” a stage play, she poses backstage with her
daughter, starlet Ann Archer.
Mobile home living
becoming more popular
By JAMES M. WOODARD
Copley News Service
The appeal of carefree living,
low costs, and warm congen
iality is motivating increasing
thousands of persons to move
into a mobile home community
Many inquiries in recent weeks
have related to this popular
way of life.
Several readers asked why
there are so few mobile home
communities, in view of the
strong interest. The answer pri
marily centers on economics
and zoning.
The high cost of land makes
most desirable land parcels un
feasible for mobile home park
development. This is especially
true today with the trend to
ward larger coaches, which re
quire larger sites, and demand
for more recreational and
social facilities.
Zoning is always a problem.
Few well-located areas are
ready-zoned for mobile home
developments. It’s difficult to
obtain needed rezoning, since
there is still substantial public
resistance to what used to be
termed “trailer parks.” How
ever, most of today’s large and
complete mobile home com
munities are in sharp contrast
to the old concept.
One reader complained of a
newly imposed “SI,OOO fee”
charged by the developer-own
ers when a coach is sold within
their park. “Is this legal? If so.
OPEN HOUSE
it’s at least very unfair.” the
resident wrote
The new intrapark require
ment is probably quite legal.
Such details are usually
worked out by attorneys to be
legally sound. The ever-rising
curve of taxes and other costs
are underlying reasons for such
revenue-producing methods in
most cases
“It’s a matter of either rais
ing rents for our coach sites or
finding other means to meet
our costs," one major park
owner-operator reasoned. “We
resist raising rents across the
board because many of our
residents are retired and living
on fixed incomes. A monthly in
crease in rent payments could
create a real hardship."
Q. I am now retired. To help
my married son, I would like to
purchase a small apartment
building, taking title in joint
ownership with him. We would
share the income from the
property until I pass on, then
the property would be entirely
his own. Is this a practical
plan? How should we take title?
A. Yes, such an arrangement
can, and often does, work out
very well. However, it is par
ticularly important in such a
transaction to have the guid
ance of a competent attorney in
preparing a legally secure
agreement and other docu
ments related to the transac
tion. This also applies to the
manner in which you and your
son take title. Much depends on
community property” and
other laws of your state, and
the precise situation and de
sires of the principles.
Q. Is there a government
subsidized program for vet
erans, whereby part of the
interest or closing costs on a
Veterans Administration loan
would be paid’
A. No, but such a program is
being considered in Washing
ton. It would be similar to pro
grams now offered by FHA.
There are nearly 28 million
living veterans in this country.
Only about a quarter of them
have used a VA loan. However,
requests for VA appraisals
have been on the increase re
cently
Q. To what extent is con
struction on new residential
housing expected to increase
this year’’
A. Most leaders in the field
have been saying construction
of new homes will increase
about 60 per cent over last
year. However, recent “tight
ening” in the money market in
many areas of the country may
snip the top off the predicted
curve by the end of the year.
Questions from readers are
invited. Address: J. M.
Woodard, P.O. Box 1026, Santa
Barbara, Calif. 93102.