CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
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OME picturegoers have been saying very harsh _ things about Deanna Durbin’s excursion into heavy melodrama in this version of a Somerset Maugham
story. I don’t much like it, but I am inclined to be magnanimous; am _ prepared to regard it more with sorrow thafi with anger. Every actress is entitled, once in her career, to try to be a Bern-hardt-if only so that she may satisfy herself that she isn’t. Now that Deanna has done this, and has presumably learnt the lesson that great emotional acting is something more than mascara under the eyes, let us hope she will be content to go back to her job of singing and making people happy-a sufficiently serious job for any talented young woman.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 17
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124CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 17
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