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What happened to the

SMART GIRLS

Millions of film fans envied them, until-

By John

it

Prebble

Everybody knew she liked eating broiled steak, playing with her three dogs, her canaries and goldfish,

TT'S an old truth. Holly- wood plays its saddest tragedies off screen. Fourteen years ago

She had fallen in love, soine produced a film called "Three

said, with Freddie Bartholomew. introducing she was so idolised (and com- Smart Girls."

that Deanna marcialised)

5,000 000 14-year-old

playing were

with Darbin, the "Canadian children

Shirley Temple dolls, 20 000,000 were wearing Shirley Temple

diva."

Miss

and

Edna May Durbin Frances Gumm soon made up the leeway, Miss Durbin (now Deanna played her first scroun role ng a star,

Off-screen, Miss Durbin ribbons. was one of three very smart girls indeed. The others: Miss Shirley Temple. Miss Judy Garland, money-spin ners, stars before maturity, with paradise ahead.

Where are they now? Recently Miss Gurland wounded her throat in at of pique.

Miss Durbin Is hidden away

Her first, that is, if you don't count a shurt called "Every Sunday." in which she appear- rd with another etild singer, Frances Conce Judy Garland Gumm).

in Europe, nursing her voice and a growing avoirdupols. THE year

1938

1938 was vintage for there 1tle girls. Judy Miss

mink Temple is sitting alone Garland get herself n Hollywood play-room, cont, and we put on a Alm con- In her

dalls and veyor be that WIC surrounded by 1,500 the ruins of her marriage.

bronk her nerves, What happened to these three

girts rich

for whoi

little

later to

Starring with Mickey Rooney

SIHRLGY (now 211 : Marriage-Dioreq.

JUDY DOW 271: Marriage-Dirorce-MarriUDI

DEANNA [now 28)= Warriage-sporcentarītuar_ Divorce

Miss Garland took up educa- tion too. We marring in the

100k out a

callege

dence course.

correspon-

In 1915 she, too, began to ex- perment with thoughts of mar-

riage-to young army PT. Instructor, John Agar, aged 24. He had written her fan letters since she was so high.

THEATRE by BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

MARSHALL AID GOES TO HEAVEN

N ecstatic first night

As no one haz ever returned

one interprelation la as good is

can be dangerous as from the undiscovered country, well as pleasing to the another, but tt is sad to learn in actors and authors.

"Carousel" that people make "Carousel," as successor to here. In fact, the scene was so joisma about Philadelphin up

"Oklahoma," was greeted at enloquially American that one Drury Lane with a frenzy felt that Marshall Aid had gone comparable only to the that far.

greeting given on the pre-

This WAD Hammerstein's unleash the poetry

NO CLICHES

BS WO

and

vious night when Brice chance to Woodcock marched to the that is in him. But he may have

been embarrassed just ring to the accompaniment were and run away from it. of trumpets and the waving of the Union Jack.

The audience at the Lano Tr he had only brought to that broko into cheers at the

scene the sensitiveness mere parting of the curtains, emotion that he puts into the and applauded each change eight-minute rong of the Cireus Barker who learns that he 18 of scenery as if soma going to have a son or miracle had been accom- daughter-he, might have swept plished before their eyes. In the piece to an artistic triumph

But Carousel is Dick Rod- such an atmosphere tha

triumph. Mr Rod- Rers's uncritical lose all sense of gers looks like a business man

writex like a modern

No

proportion while the critical and are inclined to suppress such Richard Strauen, enthusiasms as they still

possess.

HIS DANGER

wonder

American symphony orchestras play

his works.

There is never a moment in "Carousel" that the music does

not express the mood and point the meaning of the tale. The

superb, sar NAROUSEL suffers from the opening wallz is

on the sad vitality of "Oklahoma" it is gainty of circus life. Rodgers is same mould, incapable of a cliche or a des- fashioned in the

the commonplace. One sweet girl, one lively girl, Cent

the first great

Cartel that while it incks the donic commentary

He

handsome baritone, a mintronly will yet write namma, a bad man, and the American grand opera if only ballet tuking up the story train miceers will release him from t time to time. Inevitably repeti- tolls. Gone was all the childhoodtion blunts the edge of spon Elamour. The three smart girls taneity, and we are more able hal 'now to stnd up under a to note the faults. less sentimental scrutiny.

1946

Oscar

Hammerstelu

a

THE BATTLE

of

TOW we come to the cast dtarm the production. Of handsome, Hifted man of great Miss Durbin,

however, was and sensibility, but in constitu- virite American baritones there all carning

the post of the seems no end, Mr Stephen Doug. something like ting himself £100,000 a year, Miss Garland inexpressives he runs the don las can pass from speaking 10 singing with a natumlness that £75,000. Yet the zenith was ger of becomnir one of them.

in love never takes him out of the part. perhaps pral.

Telckov specialised zeenes where the man could find It flappers still exist he will be Tchekov made their new Hol no words, but

and it. Too often

Margot mite tragedy of

Withers Iva

and sing look preity tender- Moser day in January 1040 Flammerstein achleves ONE MC and Missness with

welle prettily,

Marjorie Mars ness without beauty and frustra-

The fact gives tion without tragedy.

brittle hardness to the ton that he is colossally successful lady who owns the circus.

The The dancing of the choruN foes not raise him above

criticism. Nor and balle! is so good that I standards of

was would he

he desire it to be 50.

delighted

learn that on which nearly all of them are British. Molnar's "Liliom"

"Camurel" now brcomes # "Carousel" is based, always pre-

Durbin booksxl a roon in the same maternity hospital. Jessica Louise Jackson was born in r'ebruary, Liza Minelli in March

Miss Durbin's film career was practically completed.

Miss Garland's was to enter

to

sented the theatrical difficulty of battle between the public and a man who la killed, goes to the crilles. However, we shall result for some its must temperamental, cruel-heaven and then comes back to not know the

months or perhaps year. earth for one day.

lest pause.

Miss Temple's success was to be nothing like the forecast.

The Durbin second marriage worked no better than the rat. The same might be said for Miza Grind.

And Miss Temple, who had of "a really married in hope happy permanent marriage like mummy's and daddy's," found ambi- that Mr Agar had film

10 b 4:DOS, a di not like

MAN OF

ACTION

TRUMAN'S 'GO-GETTER' HEADS FOR LONDON...

from Frederick Cook

United Europe, the group which visit from Frederick Cook

organised Mr Churchill's NEW YORK,

Staten for his tu the United? £750,000 Wizard of Oz" the called "Air Shirley Temple." Academy Award she was later"

NEW star rises in the address to Harvard University. has never concealed his She said that he got drunk American firmament. A le

belief that some form of union Mas Durbin, by 1940, was the ad that he old she was no few days ago he was just is indispensable if Europe is in

thousands-a survive. only ur retaining and increas-

her pre-war fame.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "CHAIN LIGHTNING" nothing turned out as it should? he was going fast towards the to win. She was fireless, worked and played hard.

M. G. M. were certain that in

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HAT 2.30, 5.15.E start on St George's Day,

7.20 & 9.30 W1920, when the wife of Me her they had an answer to Mins Temple. 11 Callfominn Bank Darbin. Miss Temple, and the

gave birth 40 depression.

P.M.

THE STORY OF A KILLER WITHOUT CONSCIENCE!

A mesterpiece

of suspenseful

motion picture

making!

manager, daughter.

1941

didn't gel

ONC

fun because site drunk.

4

1949-1950-

199

Miss Temple Came Into her immense fortune.

among

among

Wa!

Is name appeared fairly prosperous Street lawyer shuttling be- the 110 leading Americans (led tween his pleasant home in by General George C. Marshall and Mr Stimson) who put them- Min Tempe had nothing to Elsewhere,

California,

a Park Avenue apartment selves on record as supporters Edna

May

seven-year-old fear yet. President Roosevelt VLE Miss Temple was bury IN

She earned. with exercise books. Misses.

house and his skyscraper of the Schuman scheme.

He married in 1930 Miss Mar. daughter of Mr and Mrs Durbin, hadceived her.

weeks Just by Durbin and Garland were busy

Miss Garland had a serious offices downtown. Lancashire-born Immigrants £3,400 In two

with their first husbands.

nervous breakdown. from Canada, was taking ang endingding a dress.

In the spring of 1041 both an

Today Charles M. Spofford Karet Mercer Walter. They have four children, Nancy ared 19, Ing lessons. Neighbours said her Like Miss Durbin her studlo

nounced their marriage. Ten

Miss Durbin, without a film stands arollighted as the man Charles Nicholas nged 16, Mar- voice sounded ine, she ought value was declared 10 be the and people walted outside

for two years, had put on 201b, President Truman has chosen to garet ofed 11, and John aged Methodist church to see Miss

all weight, and was thinin be American Deputy on the eiht. The elder pair are prob-

ably color to save Durbin married to the young about going into opera, where. North Atlantic Councit in Lon-

their parents. producer Vaughan Paul.

HOLDEN FOCH COBB

WH

DARK PAST

OPENS TO-MORROW

Warner Bros. prosents The Story of Seabiscuit!

"PRIDE OF KENTUCKY"

In Technicolor

Barry Fitzgerald

with Shirley Temple

r

to have a screen test.

£2 000 000, and when her milk- And, Loofing it with her teeth fell out the studio sisters on the vaudeville stage, he false ones.

four-year-old Frances

Hollywood In July Mins Garland went to Eirewhere in the Gumm, daughter of Frank and Ethel Gumm. actors. She too had flitter-bowl Mies Durbin was Nevada and quietly married the

week "porke band-leader Dave Rose. sald Gu, enjoying 5. a future. Everyone

Mrs Both maritakes lasted while Mr and money" including Frances.

Durbin banked the on her behalf.

1933

M and Mrs Temple

were

1939

each other each

two

She had temperamental

Loudon with

Perhaps, the weight would noidan. To those who know him,

the cholee was no surprise.

Golf, tennis sem out of place.

is young (40), a go-getter with- unnecessarily astres.

Professionally, Spor: From then on, for them all, it out being

down-slids. Twice zive, good-looking and a great ford specialises in corporate was the thousands years. Within a few months of MG.M. suspended Miss Gar-maker and holder of friends.

This is Spofford's first job in law. Well-to-do without being one of rich, he is a keen golfer and politics, A partner in s

America's top legat Birma. Davis, playa a fost game of tennis. His lasie in clothes runs to imported Unlike Miss Durbin, who de- Polk, Wardwell. Sunderland and

never slim. Kindle entered the army English cloth, preferably dark clares he would Miss Garland drove herself into soon after America went to war, and conservatively cut. He likes a Boston hospital trying to slim. with the rank of Heutenant knitted lies, solid colours only.

Miss Temple's marriage went colonel

Arst off the mark. In 1933 TN 1939 the three girls were they entered Shirley in a con-

hardly off the set. Miss test to find a child actor for the

Garland was acting, singing, ulm "Stand Up and Sing."

The studlo personnel listening and dancing furiously,

to her stood up and cheered. Miss Temple was calculated Hollywood had found a child genius with golden curls tall 02 to be worth 142 times her weight

in gold, finger-rolled by Mrs Temple), a voice like n a chubby smule. junior angel.

1936

was thinking tand. of fling suit for divorce. While Japanese prisoners declared they weren't at war whh Mies Dur bin, she was "ccusing Vouchan of mental cruelty.

20 yours

عارف

through a serdid divorce court. Backs Schuman

Apart from games, his hobby

La munie, Like Mr Truman, he

It took Miss Garland a litte longer to make up her mind.

Miss Durbin also got off to

is a gifted amateur plaist. lie is also an opera enthusiast and her second marriage first,

Nothing of the elittering In the early days of the North 20s been for some years prest- dream seemed to materialice. Seven her senior.

African campaign, he was chair- dent and a director of the New time to producer Felix Jackson,

Two men brawled over Misa months Inter Miss Garland an- nounced that she would marry Temple on a golf course. Mission of a joint economic mission York Metropolitan Opera Asso- A man who has worked with to assistant chlet of sinf, G-5 her director Vincent Minelli Durple, in Paris, dreamed of with the French and later rose ciation.

ten 32, and eleven years her playing in "Pygmalion" If any military government) at Alled Mr Spofford for years cald:

ona would ask her.

HQ in the Mediterranern. He "When he wants a thing, he with the rank of goes after it. And he usually And Miss Garland thought, left the army

way or another. to want perhaps not los seriously, that brigadier-general. Britam gave gets it, ene die ged edge of a tumbler him a CBC for his services, in Just now, he tappens

to Eve the North Atlantic Coun- might be one way

solving the April 1044.

Spofford is a wholehearted cll translated from a set of ideas problemis that had come to

pporter of the Schuman plan. On paper to a body that works. Hollywood's three smart girls. He is a trading member in the And work it will, with him in

Committee for a charge. American -(London Express Service)

SETOF.

Misa Durbin, growing into a peracnoble young woman, was going up and down the scales bills floating frota with dollar every note,

Came the war. Eleven-year- XXITH a three-year start on

the other two smart girls. old Miss Temple quit the films as 2 junior at a box-office and started Miss Temple had appeal higher than Garbo's in Westlake School. She had made, ME 1030. More than 200 million they sail, about £4,000,000 in people pald to see her. Her Alms, either for herself or some-

The money estimated camings had reached one else.

invested, everything was fine, £250,000.

1945

TEANWHILE, what of Mis

Temple? Having received the best Westlake could offer groomed by was the was being

Selznick for adult roles.

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