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Some Hints. The field is led by Parents' Institute Publisher George Hecht, 57 (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950), who has a simple explanation of why children are turning to magazines: "Every child likes to do what he sees his parents do," i.e., read magazines. As father of four of the biggest children's magazines, Publisher Hecht has copied some adult magazines exactly. Three years ago he put out a junior Reader's Digest called Children's Digest (complete with "book condensations" of Pinocchio, Glister's Last Stand, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) and watched its circulation...
...play. Then the grownup actors-who can be just as sensitive in these matters as children-took offense when Jenny started stealing scenes from them, by mugging or winking at the audience. Backstage, Jenny thumbed her nose at Actress Vicki Cummings' maid, and, it was charged, even mother Hecht insulted Hollywood Actor Mark Stevens (playing Jenny's father) by yelling and burping into his face...
...Jenny," retorted Mrs. Hecht, denying everything, "is a lady." The other actors, she suggested, were jealous because the critics had raved about Jenny's fine performance (as indeed they had: ". . . absolutely captivating . . . more terrifying than the child monster in The Children's Hour . . ."), and were waging psychological warfare against her. In one scene, Stevens has to carry Jenny onstage through a fire door; Mrs. Hecht feared that "if we didn't tell her to duck, she would have her head bashed in." She pleaded with Stevens: "Why don't you try to charm Jenny...
Added Mrs. Hecht: Actress Cummings, in her turn, once "kicked a hole in Jenny's dress while she was in it." Worse, Jenny was deprived of her solo curtain call. She consoled herself with the thought that "for every person who hates me backstage, there are 30 people out there who love me." For the rest, she calmed her nerves by reading Chekhov...
First Representative: Miss Hecht, charges have been preferred against...