RUMOURED ROMANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 4

RUMOURED ROMANCE

DEANNA DURBIN AND V. PAUL. Do reporters jump to conclusions or is it their job lo make news? asks a writer to an English magazine. Take the case of Deanna Durbin's friendship with ■ Vaughan Paul. Many papers have printed photographs and articles concerning these two, so I wrote to the star herself and received this reply:— "Dean Norman. ,1 do appreciate your thoughtfulness in writing to me, and am sorry that publicity which was not true caused you such concern. Vaughan and I have been good friends for quite a while, and go out together occasionally. He, too, is employed by Universal Studios, and worked on my first three pictures. It is.gratifying to know that you are still my friend, and haven't rushed into believing everything you have read in newspapers and nagazines, or heard over the radio. Again, my sincere thanks for your letor. Very truly yours, Deanna.” H. M. STANLEY ■ INTERESTING LIFE STORY. Spencer Tracy is superb as the world-famous newspaper man. 11. M. Stanley, in the 20th Century-Fox production which features such outstanding players as Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nancy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Richard Greene, Henry Hull, Henry Travers and Miles' Mander. This outstanding ■ film was tnree years in the making and shot on the actual locale in Africa. Henry M. Stanley was not born with a silver suoon in his mouth. He first saw the light as John Rowlands near Denbigh, Wales, on June 10, 1841. Orphaned at. 2, he spent his early years in the workhouse and the brutality and privation he experienced there left him with few illusions about people and life.

Eager to leave the scene of his early trials behind him, he shipped as a cabin-boy when in his 'teens, on a boat bound for New’ Orleans. Here he

had the good fortune to be adopted by a merchant, Henry M. Stanley, who employed him and whose name he later assumed. When the Civil War broke out, the adventurous young mm. enlisted in the Confederate Army and was taken prisoner. He later joined tile Federal Artillery and in 1864 enlisted in the United States Navy. After the close of the war he went io Turkey and Asia Minor as a newspaper correspondent and in 1868 accompanied the British Expedition to Abyssinia as correspondent for the New York Herald. It was following this adventure that he was entrusted with the assignment of discovering the fate of Doctor Livingstone.