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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH May 17, 1941,
Deanna's New Film is a Tease
is a tease. There is, no, and can never be any, question as to Miss Durbin's niconess. Joe Paster- ink, the producer of all Miss Durbin's pictures and the ca- tablisher of their agreeable mold, knows niceness when he's got it and values it properly. He doesn't insist on it for everyone he also produces now Marlene Dietrich's pictures-but let, her who's got it keep it..
Any Deanna Durbin picturo, Girl?" In Miss Durbin's newest. pleasant experience reassures, will have good people in it do ing good things in m atmos- phore of good feeling. Its morals and taste will be high, Its tedlum low,.. its ..suspense. medium. Miss Durbin will sing, Sometimes Miss Durbin will sing because her singing ad- vances the story; sometimes she will just sing. Her father will be a man of mature charm; she will be closer to him than to her mother, if any; he will liko her better than her sisters, if any,
She will live in a small town, or if it's a big one, she will treat it as if it were little. Every pody will like her; she will like everybody; and when for a spell she's unhappy, it will all be because of misunderstanding a good person, rather than under- standing correctly, a bad one. There are no bad ones in Deanna Durbin pictures.
Thus it is clear that the ques- tion mark after the title "Nice
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And so,,in "Nice Girl?," Misa Durbin's father is Robert
Benchley, the beat Durbin father yet, and in. lieu of a mother there's Helen Broderick,
cook. sage and
And Miss Durbin's beau is Robert Stack,
e'a shy and wholesome, where ns Eranchot Tone, mistaken menace, is not shy, but whole- some. The tedium's low, the suspense's medium, and Miss Durbin sings.
The film is showing at the King's Theatre.
ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE
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Luckily it is only in the end- Bangkok wave of laughter to the legion of ing that this element is intro-y Hardy Family fans.
duced. The opening is a pleco Calcutta of joyous fooling, with Mickey
- Čvo Street boasting about his acquaintance Fairlie Place with the debutante who, needless Cawnpore
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The picture brings Mickey Rooney and Judy
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Lewis Stone and the rest of Somehow politics" seem thor- the Hardy family are as good as oughly incongruous in a 'Hardy they ever were.
However, when Judge Hardy is called to the city Mickey, has to go and thero his bluff is well and truly called.
News Notes
The new screen version of the famous musical comedy, "No, No, Nanette," is due soon at the King's Theatre. This Herbert Wilcox film has Anna Neagle in the leading role; and, is reported to be one of the brightest things of the season.
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