Show r n I --- r? ga 56:1711 4j '4 - Al - ktia 'LS1 1 r -1 r:—- 64 iv' ' my - 4 (-7- 1' - - 14 : -- 7 - I- -- 'Y 2 044 'LS 1 Knife I I - r vt It ' 37 : -- r k § i ' - J''''' ' :q 1 ti ) - - t fi tI i - - ' ----- - - t 000r- - - - !A - k i ' 1 - " - 2114:'A - 4t : - ?-- s '- - 1 ' ' ' ' r --i-r- "'''r ce k4 'klklitren'-- ' ' '" ''' ' ' ''''''''''''A'' ''''7'''''- ' -- :' - - : '4' ! ie e Years Old ' ' ' ? - ' - '' 'tt 1 ' :: - el r:(1-- 's ' ' - '— k ' - ''''' - '414 4 first ' N '' '' '' ''' '- 'A Jr ft 4 - - - - - '-- ' " " " - '14 ' - ' : : - : ' i ' 1 - : Deanna was 21 on December 4 She was born in' 1921 in Win Her father nipeg Canada James Durbin was a black smith although he always has been listed in her biography as a real estate broker an occuration he chose when Isis ailing health caused the family to move to California six months after Deanna's birth Deanna has a paradoxical attitude toward her own career A lot of things—including of course her marriage—are more importart to her During the months following her wedding to Vaughn Paul she was often asked whether her marriage had affected her screen future "Whether my career has affected my marriage is more to the point" wouldi be her reply "The answer is each has made the other stronger—so far" Few stars watch their fans' reaction as closely as Deanna who has what is easily the most zealoua of any fan follow ing When it was disclosed that Deanna was to have her first HOLLYWOOD--Wh- en I was a young gal just getting a start in this incredible picture business—and don't ask me 'what year- that was because I won't :tell you!—I was cast to play the heavy vamp opposite one of the current screen darlings of the era Never could figure out why I was always the vamp and never quite got the guy Some actors end actresses are like that you know—Humphrey Bogart Brian Donlevy and a few film ladies that I could mention But that's incidental to what I'm going to preach about today Anyway I had what I thought was a smart idea It was a smart idea The reigning modiste of the day was a queen or duchess named Lady Duff Gordon professionally known as Lucille She was—how do you say?—de rigueure au fait and very much to the manor I went to this Lucille in her exclusive New York establishment and hired her to turn me out It cost me more money than I had at the moment but we made a deal I was a howling success Being very young I may have measured my success by the amount of rage I inspired in other femmes who were not quite so much Mrs Astor's horse as I was - -- c: !''' 'a I I i - - '- - standard I was in but with emMy sole opposition of phasis i course was the aforesaid de- 1 0''' lectable little dame who was 1 the star of the picture She was to a smoldering cinder reduced ' ' so completely did my Lucille i ' ' 1'4 t get-u- p bowl her over She ' - ! pOY 2 irrli the show in fact until '''''t stopped 1' r4‘ta le" 1 she could hire another coutus ' riere of her own to whip her up a wardrobe so that she could bear it to walk in front of the It in a scene with me camera 13" wattift f' Now ask you why did I do I 1 -Ale i-t ' cii e: iipdwhat I did? Simple I was ' i'' y s I 4:4 1 Its young—well fairly young—on ' a mad search for glamor and 1 ! 1 sophistication principally sot : was bound to I phistication a or have at any cost sophistication i 1 Al ko0 : and I thought clothes would buy r rk" ' c 1 ' VV it for me I wasn't entirely 1:011 ''''t'::'':" '' r: ' 1 ' ' ir wrong either 't ?"0"' I'm bringing up the subject r rn: 41'64"444:41 because it seems to me that last ' season and more particularly r ''' 0 (' this season we-othe films are : 1 ! k going in pretty largely for a phony corny kind of sophisticai tion and glamor that may land 1 '' us up behind the eight ball f 41 Maybe it's because the war is robbing Hollywood of so much creative talent Maybe too many " good writers and directors have thrown away their sports coats for khaki tunics and their mashies for Garands But the fact Is we are being afflicted right now by a generation of :::Atilt movie lot impresarios who have moz themselves that the persuaded ' ' : 7:1:t :'—P! : :r:j'j::: kliiz4 nth power of sophistication is 'ILA rzltf!f filio t expressed only by some bedroom escapade lir Ladies and gentlemen of the 1111 "px cinema jury am I right or wrong ' e'''' 0 ' ' 1 ' ' While our pictures are being ' '' ''''T ' ' '' '''' ' -' '' pee' i0''''' ' censored ' '''' — right and left from the ! e '' purely 4 military or propaganda ' ' k'' ' point of view we've startedrun- 0 ning hog wild in the matter of our human relations "go ' : ' - i ' 1 '''' ' ' to 'I i-- 3 2'' Stitch in Time - i ' ' ? 4 ' ' ' 0 We had better call a halt right : '" '''::14 ' LI 't :t in Hollywood or the first here (‘ ' ' k 1 we know the picture busiI thing - 1 3" e o ness will be pushing its head L:t1 right into a censorial noose that ( el will choke it silly rt'r In fact the rumblings from '' 4 off can be heard already afar 440tm moltogt and you don't have to scrape your ear on the ground to hear Deanna Durbin popular alike with screen fans and fellow stars occumarried life Just turned 21 she already has climbed well up on them the ladder of success Physically she is about what artists call I remember when Winfield It pies enviable place in movieland She has proved herself a keen Sheehan (and I hear he's commeasurements as business executive measures up in domestic life and has a happy prove perfect ing back again to do big things God bless him!) used to warn ' his brother big shots that they were asking for trouble Well Winnie was right We're heading right into the mess again 12 a can a more Nowadays it's next to impos13— are mobs For Feb The dummies than lie that HOLLYWOOD by through always oughly waterproofed sible to interest a major studio of for made work art it whether take scene love years a really stars picture play Watching in a script—outside of war and When a job comes up that will "Blacky" is made of two thick"Blacky" Is a tough hombre beauty comedy or durability may be the last word in thrills Abott and Costello or Bob Hope in canvas of He nesses or had of had them has the hide off knock the been hundreds heaviest the Many parts rip through for the thousands who come to or Bing Crosby that doesn't d stuffino-r- out of an ordinary dum- in town some like of studio and the with every strongest smashups -- He focus chiefly on some transgressaddle thread and reinforced Elmer" have stolen scenes from Hollywood from all parts of the disasters He has been thrown my they send for "Blackysion or of the is a' glutton' for punishment and with rawhide in all his vulnerfrom cliffs run over by cars the best comedians -- on the country in hopes of seeing movie seventh commandment celebrities on the boulevard in screen others like Blacky" has doubled for villains in their able parts He is stuffed with by stampeding cattle trampled I know and you know that the shops or at the night spots buried by avalanches and hanged horsehair and cork and thor have outlived the toughest stars last shots in more than 100 picBut not for the workers in glamor and sophistication have tures including westerns serials At the drop of a the studios got to come from within before and quickies a- circus hat they'll turn their backs on parade of their garish old But good "Blacky" would can mean anything externals the stage to watch a couple of be sadly out of character douThe Hedda who sends you this monkeys in a cage or an amateur bling for Adolf or the smooth HOLLYWOOD Feb 13 IT)-- each character symbolizes a sermon today wouldn't dream ninny other coaracters magician stumble through a rouBaumer So special "Mortimers" Pal a Hungarian started his There's a child's paradise here different motion of trying a schoolgirl trick such tine to be had made for the occasion a veritable toyland But its cartoons Ia Holland as advertisFor example when Jasper as the Hedda of years agone Center of attraction during As Director Breminger gazed turns his head to speak to the But being an artist thousands and thousands of ing films pulled off on an unsuspecting part of the shooting of Twentiethof on the two dapper figures one scare crow it may take three with commercial sense he saw film adaptation toys are only for plays and not star The outer garments of Century-Foa true with mustache and Hitler Or more heads to show him turnThis is the George for play greater possibilities in Amerisophistication can carry a gal "Margin for Error" Clare the other with the shaved head can movies—and so Pal came - ing around For every step a Pal studio where tediously men Boothe's Broadway hit was far and then she has to justso Baumer affects someone pointmove Jasper and his fellow pup-let- s different pair of legs has to be here three years ago "Count" D'Esco who prepared throw curves with head instead ed to the ropes around their a portion of an inch at a carved to make the step comThe puppets seem alive as of her hips the dummies for the scene in necks and remarked: time before a camera to make which Hitler and the villainous plete they move while talking singithe same with our movies "It looks like you are going to ng- dancing and skating There German Consul Baumer were to Lately because of lack of expuppetoons 1It's many scripts have their Pal brings to life on is tedious work behind all of hang around with the fuehrer be burned in effigy Even Direcs perienced men the studio has We'd better be showing been training boys 16 and 17 Otto" in vivid colors the characters this It takes 20 weeks to make tor Otto Preminger who plays on or they'll be throwcatching to carve the puppets one And 3000 to of the little Negro "They'll have to lynch me to the role of Baumer dropped his ing that book at us again me do it" replied the nummake 4000 characters are made for manual had have work to contemplate the stuffed nothing but trouble the scaretseacrxspocird 3s ber one antinazi propagandist of do the job as well crow and the black crow who Each puppet is earih picture doubles of himself aral the nazi Copyright 1913 Chicago A Ileader Tribune stage and screen help Jasper find his trouble and carved out of gum wood and 4 " - 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' ' '44-- 4 - - - Turned the Trick Well by that questionable - : - e ' - 1-- 1 - By Hedda Hopper - 1 box-offic- - i Ac '''7 ' i : l - - - ' '414 - ' ''s ' - —-7:- "' ' 4P' ? - 40Z' 4 : - - 4 - s c- 4141 v - 4 k7 '''4 ''''' - : 4 : - - z - 4 - ' ' : - t l''' - - - f - 'r-- -- - - ' -- - '11 - ' - p ' - : - I "First Love" the fans registered strong protests For some reaaan they did not want her to grow up quite so fast 'k kis!' in - ? ! I When Deanna's engagement to Vauahn Paul was made public a Harvard sophomore jumped fully clothed off a bridge into the Charles river in protest P nd he reaeated the act on her weddirg day " ' - -- - Elled With Sentiment " Deanna 1s extremely sentimental esnecially about her She not only celemarriage brated her first wedding enniversary but she also had a parte on the anniversary of the reheArsal for the ceremony S!le hps never removed her wed- — - ' - i - dina ring a - " 4 She is favorite with studio crews She has more nicknames than any other star and Is variously known on the set as "Durbv" "Durbish" Deanna" "Lena" "Annie" and by many Joe Pasterother nicknames nsls who produced her first ten called her pictures always "Cherlie" All her family rbding her husband call her I- - ' '' ' A'1-'- : - 5' - ":'- - - 4114 - : ': ''- - 1141"In- - : : t-' - ' " : - -- ":''' ' ' r ' - - I 4 - : - " - VV - - -- A ' ' '"-- - 1 i : '''o' - I 4- ip-- A - - tA 4 "Edna" t Other nerformers say Deanna Charles is easy to work with Latitahtnn with whom she costarred last veer says that Deanna along with Edgar BergPn has the best sense of timing of anyone with whom he has ever acted 3 - '''' 1 -- Likes Swimming Deanna's favorite sport is swimming Her parents bought their former home in Los Angeles for its swimming pool Studio Workers Prefer to Watch Prop Man ever-swaggere- and when Deanna and Vaughn first planned their present abode the pool was the first thing decided on She has a large collection of phonograph records both classical and swing and containing recordings of the musical scores from her pictures For exercise she often plays the score from "Spring Parade" and dances the cza rda 5 alone in her living room She has one pet "Tippy" mongrel dog she bought several years ago when she discovered that the pooch shared her ap- free-for-ai- cross-stitche- ls 7 Not Stars - 1 L ' 3 Puppets by Thousands for a ) ' - ' near-transgressi- petite for peanuts in - Puppetoon x' Brentwood is an y Informal English farns house type The bedroom Is a compromise between femiThree ninity and masculinity walls are papered in "masculine" one-stor- ' W4 - - re- away on active duty Deanna keeps a large picture of him on a desk in the bedroom r41Pary — years ago striped paper one in a "lemI- nine" flowered print Now that her husband is 11 jr- Censorial r) 1 'k MoviesTernpt Among other things she cently was named "ideal hostess on our bomber" by a discerning squadron of RCA F pilots Which shauld give you an idea of the raw Deanna Durbin Deanna has now made ten been on numerous pictures has ten ' polls of the top stars has been named on annual "ten outstanding women of the year" selections by Durward Hewes columnist and the Dean of Webber college Florida and in the last (pre-waBritish e poll Deanna ranked 4 ' it -7 ' L ' 1‘ ' 4 4 aNa c' 35 Herb r " k- -) - ' '2' '" r a Universal studio publicity man writing the biography of a 14- year-ol- d girl whose name he had just changed from Edna Mae Durbin to Deanna Durbin saw fit to record only two physical measurements Edna Mae he wrote was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 100 pounds Now Deanna 's biography car ries figures which amount to Just about "ideal" measurements as feminine stars line up today: height 5 feet 5 inches weight 114 pounds bust 3412 inches waist 24 Ihips 35 and leg- Is 21 I - Fits Young Film Star box-offi- -1 r'71 41 'I i I — Word 'Ideal' lergth 1 1 117 1913 Iktorning February Sunday HOLLYWOOD–ealSix Om: V' 1 1:111(11t tan"? fr7 the-scree- who-kno- s - one-reel- er - 1 - i - t ' ' |