NEW COMEDY TEAM
“Jenks and Kent” in the name of Universal’s comedy team. Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent, are to be paired officially and starred in “Strange Faces,” a farce which Burt Kelly will produce immediately Andy Devine will be featured in the special cast. The announcement comes as a result of their combined performance in Universal’s “Youth Takes a Fling,” which is not yet finished. Together for the first time in this picture, the two are declared to have demonstrated an original brand of girl-boy humour which threw a projection room audience into near hysterics. * * ¥ * Deanna Durbin’s screen mentors, producer Pasternak and director Koster, are preparing a story about the early life of Jenny Lind. Jenny Lind, Sweden’s nightingale, wai brought to America by circus-king Barnum and became famous both for her singing and her charities.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 6
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137NEW COMEDY TEAM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 6
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