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Show Stair BJmsI k B eanna Stays Deanna "A- Bouquets for McCarey i Clothes Make the Guide By Virginia Vale ' DEANNA DURBIN seems to be the current heroine of moviedom, because of her excellent performance in "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." A lot of people who liked "Three Smart Girls" were pretty sure that they wouldn't like this sequel; sequels have a way of being disappointing, especially in the movies. Then along came Universal with the announcement that in this one their money-making little star turned glamorous. That made everything ev-erything much worse. If Deanna was going in for slinky gowns and false eyelashes even the critics who had always liked her were going to use barbed adjectives, and urge their readers to stay far, far away j . f 4 DEANNA DURBIN from theaters where those three particular par-ticular smart girls grew up. But along came the picture, and there has been dancing in the streets. The picture is swell, and Deanna isn't "glamorous," she's just herself. It's a picture that everybody ev-erybody ought to see. Our hero this time is Leo McCarey, McCar-ey, director-producer, who also did a turn as writer for "Love Affair." The picture is one of the best that has come out of Hollywood in a long, long time. When you see it, you might pause and think of how very bad it might have been, were it not so expertly done. With a couple of not very good actors in the roles played by Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, with a run-of-the-mill director, direc-tor, it could easily have been a B picture. Several bouquets should go to McCarey Mc-Carey for his work on the writing end also. His movie career began with writing, you know. Hal Roach suggested that he become an actor, and he replied that he'd rather become be-come a writer. Within six months he was a studio executive; then he directed Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chase comedies for five years, and in 1936 he directed "Rug-gles "Rug-gles of Red Gap" for Paramount and was all set for big things. "Love Affair" was developed out of an idea of his, with Miss Dunne and Boyer in mind for the picture. Don't miss it! If you liked "The Citadel" you'll be glad to know that "Vigil in the Night," by the same author, has been bought as a starring vehicle for Carole Lombard. A romantic drama, it tells of the love and sacrifices sac-rifices of a young woman who wants to save her sister, a student nurse, from the results of a moment of carelessness which leads to the death of a hospital patient. Jack Berch, one of NBC's handsome hand-some young baritones, recently discovered dis-covered that clothes are more important im-portant than he thought. With summer sum-mer just ahead, he bought a yachting yacht-ing outfit, and liked it so much that he wore it right out of the tailor's and back to Radio City. lie was on his way through the first-floor corridors to the elevators when an elderly lady stopped him. "Young man," said she, "I stopped to look at one of the murals here, and the touring group I was with has gone on. Please continue my tour." Berch used to be a small-town boy, and learned to be polite to elderly el-derly ladies. So, cursing his yachting yacht-ing cap, he escorted her to the front door, industriously describing the murals they passed on the way. There she discovered her group, and he fled to the studios, his cap in his hand. - Paul Whiteman's replacing Burns and Allen on the air for the summer could be listed as "Turn about is fair play." They once replaced Paul Whiteman. ODDS AD ENDS I) you liked "Lives ul a tlrnstd lMiicer" you'll look forward to "The Real Glory" same star, Gary Cooler, same director. Henry llulliatcny . . . Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, "Hurricane" stars, will ajt-pear ajt-pear together in "Ganid Zone" . . . lJut O'Brien uill have the lead in "Father Damien," the story of the priest uhr devoted hLv lije to the lepers in the colony of Mrlohai. Western Newsp iper Union. |