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Joseph Valentine (Guiseppe Valentino), who calls himself a "dago wop," has followed Deanna Durbin's cinema growth from a pup. Most great reputations in the business are built on subdued arty effects -the specialties of Toland, Gaudio and chunky Chinese James Wong Howe-but Valentine has won his colors with gaiety. The lilt he catches in the gait of Deanna Durbin swinging along, singing a song, is the difference between making a musical bright and fluffy or allowing it to settle like cold soufflé. Dark, athletic, with a Cupid's-bow mustache, Valentine is a leader...
...imperialistic monarchs dethroned after World War I were just costumed Good-fellows whose apparent preoccupation with the pomp of politics could be easily sidetracked in order to help untangle a romance. When Spring Parade's Franz Josef cozily wrinkles his nose at a pretty peasant girl (Deanna Durbin) sometime circa 1896, he means that he is going to make sure she gets the drummer (Robert Cummings) in the Emperor's band with whom she has had a nasty spat. This is the essence of the plot around which bounding little Producer Joe Pasternak has molded installment eight...
...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 for the crown...
Said Delegate Durbin: "The only thing I don't like in Chicago is the Tribune and the Hearst newspapers." There were cheers and boos. "For God's sake, Mr. President, if you are listening in, let's have someone like Jim Farley! . . ." Then Rebel Durbin came to his point: "I have a candidate. I nominate Mr. Bascom Timmons of Texas...
...Convention gave Newsman Timmons an ovation. Back to his place went Delegate Durbin. When votes were counted, few hours later, Timmons of Texas got one vote for Vice President...