DEANNA SCREAMS!
MAJESTIC ATTRACTION. “ONE HUNDRED MEN AND A GIRL.” For the first time in her short but rather spectacular movie mareer, screams will issue from the highly-insured throat of Deanna Durbin when her new Universal picture “100 Men and a Girl” comes to the Majestic Theatre on Saturday. Deanna's introduction to cinema screaming takes place in a scene with Jack Smart. Smart plays a concert hall stage doorman. Deanna wants to I get into the hall to see her daddy, impersonated by Adolphe Menjou. She chinks he is inside, rehearsing with Leopold Stokowski’s orchestra. As Smart nabs her with a flying tackle, Deanna begins to yell. She starts in G above high C and whoops down mpst of the chromatic scale. As a special added feaure, her scream is fitted with lyrics. The lyrics are “Let me go! Let me go!” Although “100 Men and a Girl’ is Miss DurDin’s second picture, it is her first in a number of respects beside shrieking. In this film, for the lirst time, she sings a song while sitting on a piano. The song is “It’s Raining Sunbeams.” It is one of two popular numbers especially composed for her by Frederick Hollaender and Sam Coslow. Also for the first time anywhere, she sings to the music of a 100-piece symphony orchestra. It is led by Leopold Stokowski, noted composer, who plays the part of himself in the production. Mis Durbin winds up her collection of “100 Men and a Girl” “firsts” by landing her first motion picture slap on the face of Jack Smart, when he persists in barring her from her daddy. Smart’s punishment is really undeserved, because in this scene Menjou is not in the hall. A trombonist, out of work for two years, he has told his daughter that the money which he found in Alice Brady’s lost handbag and used to pay their rent was earned in orchestra work. When Deanna learns the truth she urges the wealthy Miss Brady to back a band composed of her daddy and 99 of his jobless friends, with Stokowski leading it. Then the fun begins, with Mischa Auer, Eugene Pallette, and other noted comics prominent in the proceedings.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 250, 21 October 1937, Page 3
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