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Possibly because Deanne Durbin's formerly mature voice has now reached old age, possibly because other parts of her anatomy are now becoming mature, Miss Durbin's producers have given her a rest from opera and confine her vocal activities to two light songs...
...That Certain Age," which opened last night at the Memorial, presents one of the most vicious triangles ever screened, for to the utter confusion of Jackie Cooper, Miss Durbin bestows her love on Melvyn Douglas. The absorbing problem of how to cure a girl of her first "crush" is well handled by her parents(Irene Rich and John Haliday) and the urbane Mr. Douglas, but may not appeal to undergraduates as much as the accompanying football farce, "Mr. Doodle(Joe Penner) Kicks...
That Certain Age (Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper; TIME...
...convinced that the plan presents exceptional economic and artistic possibilities. Certainly the post office business would increase with stamps bearing replicas of Shirley Temple, Norma Shearer, Irene Dunne. Deanna Durbin. Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin and even Charlie McCarthy and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office, he is certainly no rival to Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch, who last week announced that he would henceforth produce his own pictures, backed by Myron Selznick, Producer David Selznick's agent brother...