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...between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were its stagy tastes, its distance from the dress-manufacturing and textile centres. Other bids...
...Chicago was the 1940-41 Who's Who in America, biennial roster of notables. Total Who's: 31.752. Biggest Who (since the deaths of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo and Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer): Nicholas Murray Butler, 119 lines, Newcomers: Shirley Temple ("decorations awarded from eight States"), Deanna Durbin ("singer, actress"), Frank Buck ("interested in wild animals"). Definitely Republican: Wendell Willkie, formerly a Democrat. First time in 14 years: Pronouncing dictionary of difficult names. Revived: Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan and president of the American Friends of France, inexplicably listed in the 1938-39 volume as having...
...Deanna Durbin sent 500 of her recordings to London, where they would be rushed to soldiers at the front...
...Never raised a hand to none of us boys-'cept in self-defense." If I Had My Way (Universal) will thrill countless admirers of Singer Bing Crosby by making him the foster father of Songstress Gloria Jean, Universal's 12-year-old laryngeal replacement for rapidly maturing Deanna Durbin. Crosby & Gloria Jean sing Burke & Monaco's l Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire, Meet the Sun Halfway and Pessimistic Character. Alone, Bing Crosby sings ll I Had My Way. This is very easy on the ear, but along with it spectators have to take...
...probably Shirley Temple's last picture. Our hearts are touched. For Shirley acted, sang, and danced well, and didn't deserve to have her Templian charm stifled in an uninspired million-dollar quagmire. In spite of a double-crossing producer, we wish her a happy future, when, like Deanna, we will see her kissed for the very first time...