Evening star., 1937-09-12

other musicians, she is called to the
stage by the renowned Stokowski to
make speech. Deanna cannot sum-
mon words But she can sing.
The melody flows and beats and
echoes like a silver bell resounding
with the music of the spheres. Her
triumph is complete as she sings
"Llbiamo" from La Traviata," with
the accompaniment of the full or
| chestra.
Deannas role requires her appear
ance in more than three-fourths of
the scenes in the film. Her other
songs include Mozart's "Alleluja, :"
and two popular selections, Its
Raining Sunbeams" and "A Heart
That's Free" Since all this would
be pretty large order for a sea-
soned trouper, let alone a young
girl who has made only one previous
fllm, 1t is no wonder that Holly
wood awaits this production as the
crucial test of Deanna's future.
What about the young actress who
is the subject of all this fanfare and
excitement? Is her head being
turned by the sudden catapulting to
fame? Those who have the chance
to observe her closely every day say
that she has remained unspoiled,
delightfully."- charming and level-head-
ed beyond her years.
Which brings this chronicle to the
matter of the prophecy revealed to
Deanna a little more than a wear ago.
A few weeks before she was ever
approached to sign a movie contract
she attended children's party where
rhymed fortunes were distributed
with the paper caps and chocolate ice
cream. Deanna's fortune read
Before the year is three months old,
YouU get present OF solid gold.
| You Utu rise to n1oDie tame:
Yours mil be fdoorite name.
Soon you'u be heard on the radio.
Folks tcill like your ringing 'Hellop
On dramatic art you're Derp keen;
Youu be q uoiD on the silver screen.
Your business plans tDill all succeed.
YouH never knoto rant or need"
As for the first prophecy, Deanna
has received more than one present
in solid gold during the past year
from admiring friends, as well as
studio executives. The second, third
and fourth couplets are accomplished
facts. AS for the fifth pronounce
ments, there is every reason to believe
that it, too. will happen, especially
since her mother and father have
every intention of encouraging Deanna
TO live simply and to put her money
into careful investments.
Deanna Durbin has cool, logical
mind and quick sense of humor.
When an interviewer asked her how
she would like to have Clark Gable
for a leading man, Deanna set her
questioner down by answering. "Mr
Gable is an accomplished actor But
can you imagine any screen script
that would make it sensible for the
two of us to play opposite each other?
Until you can think up such a play,
how can you ask such a question:"
/ When told that the little Canadian
girls had played hockey" in order
TO see her when she made her trip
through Canada. she replied with a
bit of twinkle, We'll, hope that's
not another thing they will blame on
movies
In her new picture she cooks So,ln
for Menlou and burns 1t. Teasing her.
4 Menjou asked after the scene was in-
lshed, DO you always burn soup when
you cook it?" She didn't lose a second
in tossing back, mo, only when the
script says so"
When she gave Menlou p homemade
haircut before the cameras. he said
1 suppose when you're finished I'll
have to 90 out and really get haircut
to save the wreck you've made" She
retorted. When I get finished YOU
won't be able to get haircut for six
months"
Deanna's sense of mathematics is
terribly exact On her visit TO New
York, Deanna confided to an ac-
quaintance. There's a sign on the
Statue of Liberty that reads: I5e
steps TO the top There are really leo.
1 counted them"
One inquisitor pressed for a reply
to the query, How do you study at
the studio school when carpenters are
hammering on the set?" Deanna
paused for moment and then re-
turned, Why we sing the Anvil
/ Chorus in time TO the hammering. b"
polite heckler tried poser. rs
Hollywood q city or a state of mind?"
Deanns hurled back, "Is history a
record Of peacetime between wars. or
is it the recital of wars that disrupt
peace? The answer depends on a per-
sonal viewpoint If you make living
IN Hollywood, it's city. If you don't
It's state of distraction"
What are you going to do with a
little girl like that?