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...this especially impressive was that it occurred in spite of Three Smart Girls, one of the big money-making pictures of the year, which grossed a total of nearly $2,000,000. Star of Three Smart Girls and two subsequent Universal hits is blithe, bouncing, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Suspecting that it needed, if not another Durbin, at least a running mate of comparable calibre, Universal acquired one, with the same lucky initials, in the noteworthy French person of 21-year-old Danielle Darrieux (Mayerling). The Rage of Paris introduces Mlle Darrieux to English-speaking audiences, is a frothy...
Without apple-cheeked young Singer Deanna Durbin, Universal Pictures might have been far deeper in the red than its net loss (as of October 30) of $1,084,999 indicates. Next season Deanna will make three films of her studio's scheduled 40. Figuresome, French Danielle Darrieux (Mayerling) will appear...
...fetish, that men must be satisfied while women must be virtuous" is being discarded, the enlightened modern declares. "Forty fraternity boys on our campus (Rollins?) were discussing the kind of wives they wanted (Snow White or D. Durbin?). Not one of them would marry a girl whom he believed to be dishonest, but only one] (Cotton Mather?) demanded virginity in his bride. Since most of us girls expect to marry college graduates, or their intellectual equivalents that is an answer...
...club was organized for the purpose of "the association of admirers and lovers of Deanna Durbin at Harvard." There are no dues and the only requirement for membership is that a prospective membership is that a prospective member must see every Durbin picture three times and dream about her four nights in succession...
...present the club is having a feud with the Deanna Durbin Devotees, a national organization. When Nelson Blair, National Secretary of the Devotees, was informed of the Harvard club's stiff admission requirements, he replied that the Devotees were much more loyal to "the most beautiful girl in the world." Blair said he saw "100 Men and a Girls" 24 times. "They are not serious enough for us," commented President Otvos...