As far as a goodnight kiss is concerned, I don't think it makes any difference whether you kiss a boy on the first date or on the fifteenth just so long as it is a goodnight kiss and not a mauling session. Boys have been courting girls since time began and any boy who is attracted to you is going to want to hold your hand or kiss you goodnight on the doorstep. However, I don't think that kissing the boys goodbye is the key to popularity. I think htere are a lot more satisfactory ways to show a boy you have enjoyed his company. You can listen, really listen, to what he has to say- without looking over your shoulder to see if any other attractive boys are in the immediate vicinity. You can enter with honest enthusiasm into any plans he has made for the evening. You can make him feel important and clever. By doing your part on a date to see the he has an enjoyable evening, you are laying a good foundation for the next date.
Sometimes, of course, you run into the young wolf who wants to parlay a goodnight kiss on the doorstep into a half-hour necking session. You can generally tell by such a boy's actions earlier in the evening what he has in mind, and that's the boy you shouldn't kiss goodnight. Don't start anything that is going to be a problem. So many girls seem to feel that if they don't kiss a boy goodnight, they won't be asked out again. I don't think this is true. Furthermore, I don't think it's kind to the boy to encourage him to get serious about you. A boy never gets to the point of asking you to wear his fraternity pin, or class ring, or gold football if you haven't indicated you would kind of linke the idea. If you have no intention of doing anything but refusing to go steady, you shouldn't lead him on into asking you. Some girls like to add hearts to their collection, but I have never thought this was fair to the boy.
As far as going steady is concerned, I don't think it's a good idea at all. I have never gone steady and I won't until I become engaged. I think it's silly for young peple to tie themselves down and miss the opportunity of meeting the person who might be really important in their lives. At parties or dances, or even in the classroom, you may see some boy you will fall in love iwth and become engaged to. But, if you are going steady with someone else, you are not free to accept dates from anyone else. When you are very young, you don't have the wisdom to know what you want in the man you are going to marry, anyway. Only be meeting and dating a lot of different boys canyou have any basis for comparison.
Of course, if you keep on going with a boy Saturday after Saterday, he's going to ask you to go steady. I think it's better to come right out and tell him the truth about how you feel about him instead of going steady with him a little while so you won't hurt his feelings. It's better to hurt him a little at first than a lot later on. I always come right out with how I feel the moment I suspect a boy is getting serious. Sometimes he drops me. Sometimes he doesn't. When he doesn't, we have a better relationship for friendship.
Getting romantic with every fellow you meet isn't the answer to popularity anyway. As a rule, I've noticed that boys want to date girls who are active on campus. A boy likes to feel his girl is a prize package- not just because of her looks, but because she's actively a part of school life. Maybe she's prominent in the drama club, or journalism. Maybe she;s on the committee for the Junior Prom, or is helping with arrangements for Senior Week. If she's really interested in her school as well as her studies, she'll find more boys want to date her. For one thing, by being part of many activities, she meets more boys. She learns how to get along with people. The girl who looks outside herself for enjoyment- instead of concentrating endlessly on hairstyles and the newest shade of nail polish- makes a more interesting companion.
I went to Los Angeles High School. Two months before the end of my senior year, I was signed by Universal-International- so I spent my last two months of high school in school on the lot. I hated to miss being graduated with my class at Los Angeles High, but I realized that if I went to school on the lot I could not only finish my regular studies, but I could take courses in drama, diction, dancing and things that would help me constructively in my career.
I bring this up because lots of girls might think dating is different in the young Hollywood set than it is in high school. It isn't! In regular high school, you can't go out week nights because you have to get up for classes Monday through Friday. At a studio you can't go out week nights because you have to get up early to be at work. For instance, right now I have my first starring role in "The Prince Who Was a Thief." I'm all dressed up in exotic costumes; I have to have my hair done before I even report to work- and Technicolor makeup applied. We work until six o'clock, and then it's another hour before you have your makeup off and are home for dinner. Then, you have to learn your lines- just as hove have to study when you're in school. There is just no time during the week when you can risk your sleep by accepting a date.
So, mainly, I go out on Saturday nights. I go out with most of the younger set. But we don't stay out late and we don't go to night clubs. It's just the same as it used to be when I was in high school except that maybe, now, my dates seem a little more glamorous because most of the boys I meet are actors. We have a lot of fun together. We discuss our work. We go dancing and stop and have sodas at Will Wright's. We exchange parties and try to get in by midnight. And, if it's been a perfectly wonderful evening, we say goodnight with a kiss. Not a deathless, immortal kiss, a la Romeo and Juliet. Just a gesture of affection and friendship. It can be that way, you know, but it's up to the girl.

The article is accompanied by a half page black and white photo of PL from shoulders up, with eyes half closed; a small b&w photo from the film- Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie both achieved stardom in one fell swoop when Universal-International gave them the leads in "The Prince Who Was a Thief."; Two small b&w photos- of PL in a low cut costume dress, leaning on her left hand on a divan, and in a nice white blouse smiling under a tree- Even a very young screen star, like Piper Laurie, has to be able to look (above) sultry and (below) wholesome; a small b&w photo of PL, Chill Wills and Donald O'Connor- Chill Wills shows a portrait of Francis, the talking mule, to Piper and co-star Donald O'Connor on the "Francis Goes to the Races" set.