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By ADELE W H I T E L Y FLETCHER
Seldom does a writer gain the insight deep enough to paint in so few words and such intimate essentials, the personality of a star
SOME people are special, there's no doubt about that. It's as if they were born with joy of living, humor, generosity of spirit, understanding, and all the other things it takes to make anyone special fully developed, as if they were in immediate possession of a greater share of these things than most people know after groping for them all their lives.
Deanna Durbin is such a person, apparently always was, undoubtedly always will be. And this isn't only attributable to the freak structure of her throat which, making the tone and range of her voice possible, has lifted her family out of the large ranks of middle class gentility where life takes a lot of managing if not actual struggle and skyrocketed her to double fame. It's other things too that make Deanna special. She shines. I can think of no better way to describe her. Her eyes shine, her hair shines, her voice shines, her laughter shines, her brain shines. In substantiation of that last item I offer her I. Q. rating from the Board of Education.
And now at fifteen Deanna is aware of the world in which she finds herself as a wonderful place. Not because people all over the land plan their engagements so they can be beside their radios the night she's on the air. Not because mighty bankers are willing to advance tremendous loans to her company if her con
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tract is given as collateral. It's other things. Which is entirely as it should be when you're fifteen, whatever else you are or are not. For instance . . .
There's "Evangeline" which Deanna is beginning to study with her teacher, Mrs. West. She adores it because it is sad. She has read "Gone With the Wind" twice for the same reason.
There's the wig and wig-stand she bought with her spending money on which she is able to effect the most unbelievable coiffures.
There's the hairdressing (Continued on page 73)