RAPIDLY GROWING UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1940, Page 9

RAPIDLY GROWING UP

DEANNA DURBIN. It does not’ seem so long ago that we were a trifle shocked at the idea of Deanna Durbin receiving her first screen kiss. Deanna's film education is progressing fast; she says a final farewell to adolescence in “It's a Date,” and in her next picture, "Spring Parade,” she will not only kiss Robert Stack but will marry him. "Spring Parade” will be, in contrast to the simplicity of the Durbin films of the past, a large-scale musical. The story was made by Joe Pasternak in Budapest some years ago, with Franciska Gaal as the star. Though they are more lavishly set, the new Durbin films are costing less to produce than her earlier ones. The reason is that Deanna, now 18, no longer has to attend the studio school er conform to the laws governing the working hours of juveniles, and her shooting schedules have been considerably shortened as a result. By the way, Jane Withers, who has not “grown up” so gradually or gracefully as Deanna, will have Kent Taylor as the romantic lead in her first adult picture.