Deanna Durbin in Fifth Success
''THREE SMART GIRLS GROW UP” (Regent; Now showing.) Deanna sings four songs in “Three Smart Girls Grow Up,” beautiful, well-chosen numbers, semi-classics. They are “The Last Rose of Summer,” from Flotow’s opera “Alartha;” “La Capinera,” by Sir Julius Benedict; “Invitation to the Dance,” by Weber, with Charles Henderson’s special vocal arrangement; and “Because,” by Edward Teschemacher and Guy D ’Hardelot. In her fifth consecutive success, this 16-year-old singing star has bettered her former efforts. The record that seemed incredible has been accomplished. But it is not her singing alone that makes Deanna’s pictures screen events of the season. Without singing a song she would probably be voted one of the most popular actresses of the screen. The story, by Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson, differs from the original “Three Smart Girls.” Deanna is seen as Penny Craig, who attempts to unsnarl the tangled love affairs of her two older sisters, with results both amusing and amazing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 5
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