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Press, 15 September 1976, Page 28

Random reminder

WOMAN TALK When the television bosses run their schools for writers, it is very probable that, the embryonic producers of scripts are told that the surest way to success is suffering. Put another way, a doctor a day keeps the TV in play. One of our television reviewers remarked recently that one of the television soap operas was distinguished, one sunny afternoon, by having in the play four young women, all of whom were pregnant, and all of whom were distinctly unhappy about their marriages, or the lack of them. The soul

searching must have been tremendous. One of the leaders in this field is a thing called “The Young and The Restless,” which has some curious people in it, most of them wallowing in sentiment or unhappiness or both. The programme was on in a suburban home, but the young woman of the house was out of the room, leaving her four-year old daughter Belinda to keep an eye on it. That she did, unwinkingly. Within moments, the screen showed a young lady in hospital. And she was Having a Baby, Moreover, there was bo

suggestion of a cheerful smile and some bright re* mark like “Bingo” as the baby was born. No. This was a Difficult Labour. The patient, emoting furiously, was in extremis. And she began to recite the Lord’s Prayen She had reached “Give us this day our daily bread’’ when 'Belinda's mother came back to the room and asked what was happening. Belinda put it all in its proper perspective. “Oh” she said, “There is this lady in hospital with a baby in her tummy and she has just asked God for a sandwich? 1