Aunt Daisy As Guest Critic

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 23, 18 November 1938, Page 14

Aunt Daisy As Guest Critic

Impressions Of Durbin Picture THIS week, Gordon Mirams has invited Aunt Daisy to be his "guest critic’ and give her impressions of the new Deanna Durbin picture, "That Certain Age." Aunt Daisy met Deanna while she was in Hollywood, and this is what she has to say about her and the picture:-~ "Charming, that’s the word for the whole picture-just charming. I enjoyed it immensely. And it was Deanna to the life. She’s exactly the same off the screen as on. Those little mannerisms-the way.she runs upstairs, the decided way she talks-they’re all exactly her own. She’s just a very natural, very sweet high schoo! girl, with no nonsense about her, and not in the least difficult to manage. "There was a rumour when I was in Hollywood that she .Was going to be put in a ‘lovey-dovey’ story. I was glad to see in the picture that the rumour was quite unfounded, |} thought they handled her schoolgirl romance most judiciously. Delightful. "The scene | enjoyed most? Well, of course, | was very amused when Deanna and Melvyn Douglas were on the tandem singing my song ‘Daisy Bell" But it was all most enjoyable. I can’t speak too highly of it?

SPEAKING CANDIDLY

(Continued from Opposite Page.) "Holiday" to mark him as one of the secreen’s most competent young leading men. He plays Johnny Case with happy-go-lucky abandon and whimsy, but with underlying sincerity. For Academy Honours HE most significant role in the whole film, however, and the best-acted, is that played by Lew Ayres, as the disillusioned Seton son, who shares Linda’s revolt against the worship of wealth and family, but has not the moral stamina to take a stand against his father’s domination. This role is remarkable, not. because of the way it was written-actually Ayres was given less to say and do than almost anybody in the cast-but because of the way Ayres has so unobtrusively elaborated it. Here and now, I nominate Lew Ayres’s performance in "Holiday" as a certainty for the Academy award for the best supporting performance of 1938.