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If you remember, we used in that picture a bunch of beautiful kids — twenty-four little girls of fifteen or sixteen —just about the age when their little hearts start to beat for the boys. And here comes Vaughn Paul, second assistant director, the handsomest boy on the set, including the leading men. And I notice they start to giggle, these twenty-four, and they whisper and get quiet and look at him sideways and push their heads together and giggle again. Pretty soon he received every morning a poem from these kids, and little notes. Then they run competitions — you know? — they vote. Mr. Taurog is the nicest, Mr. Pasternak is the busiest, Mr. Paul is the handsomest, and again they look sideways — not at me or Taurog, only at Mr. Paul. Of course the poor boy is embarrassed. Everybody ribs him. He's twenty, and they're fifteen. To him they're a bunch of babies. "And Deanna? Deanna stays back. Deanna doesn't write notes and poems. Deanna doesn't giggle and Deanna doesn't whisper. Maybe she votes, but she won't show it around. When the rest jitterbug between takes and would like Vaughn to jitterbug with them, onlyTie's busy, Deanna sits and knits and smiles like a mother whose children are having fun. Still, 1 happen to know she's just as interested in boys and just as anxious to have fun as anybody else. Mrs. Durbin told me a couple of times that she likes boys. But she's mature for fifteen, and boys the same age that she meets are too young for her. So after a while I begin to wonder why she looks so hard away from Mr. Paul. If she didn't like him, why should she bother where she looks? And once when he handed her something, she seemed confused. With somebody else you wouldn't notice. But this is the first time I see Deanna confused. Aha, I thought, her little heart starts to beat too — as one thinks it of a child. Later I wondered if she didn't make up her mind right then, without really knowing it, 'This is the man.' "Then came 'That Certain Age.' What happened outside is their business. But knowing Deanna as I do — or think I do, because who knows women? — I saw that something happened. It was almost like when you have a daughter yourself and you realize she comes home at ten instead of nine, and in her eye there's a certain sparkle. She was always fussy about dresses, but now she was anxious for high heels and manicures and all those things that start to make her look like a young lady. "Also a word drops here and there about her and Vaughn. But only when we made 'Three Smart Girls Grow Up' — only then did I know for sure that she was going through the beginning of a romance. And even then, I tell you truthfully, I didn't know it was already so strongly developed as it was. A couple of times she asked me : 'Do you think we'll work late on Thursday four weeks from now ?' Four weeks from In "Nice Girl," Deanna Durbin has her most important role to date as well as an imposing supporting cast, including Robert Benchley, above, who's gotten the idea he can sing too. 94 SCREENLAND