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Engaged. Deanna Durbin, 19, singing cinemiss; and Vaughn Paul, 25, associate producer, son of Val Paul (Universal studio manager), with whom Deanna has kept company ever since her parents allowed her to have dates. In her next film. Producer Joe Pasternak will let Deanna get engaged on the screen...
...years have they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz saw. But the arrival of sound was tough on Mexicans...
...most French pictures at least the photography is beautiful. Here a high school movie puts it to shame: there are spots all over the screen, lighting effects are crudely overdone, and the focus is so often artily fuzzy that you squint, swear, and come out with sore eyes...
Lady with Red Hair (Warner Bros.) is the late Mrs. Leslie Carter, darling of U. S. theatre audiences during the gargoyled era at the turn of the Century. Revived for screen biography by yellow-haired Miriam Hopkins, she appears for cinemaudiences as a talentless, whining, ungrateful Trilby to mop-headed, cleric-collared Producer David Belasco's (Claude Rains) Svengali...
Whether Mrs. Carter was a great actress or a notorious curiosity is still a moot point among theatrical greybeards. Warner Bros., rather than classifying Mrs. Carter, merely add another volume to the screen's countless observations on show business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...