The Archive · 1938

The Awkward Age

These young stars children who are neither e the cause of ut headaches in the production departments.

Nova Pilbeam delicately skirted the love-interest problem in her last picture "Young and In-cent." One was given to under-tand that the was not entirely platonic t the same time all visual sug-

"Potash and Perlmutter"

Headed by Rosen and Valin, a number of bers of the Russiar Ligh present Potash in the Lyceum on Saturday Sunday nights, the comedians to be found in the name roles. Among those are assisting, Bitner, Nevskaya, idaroff, Limury, Andreev and Tourenjn.

Offering wee golf, afternoon concerts, dinner dances, Bingo and various outdoor games, Jimmy's Pavillion, opposite Jessfeld Park, ite inclement weather, has been to constantly increasing Much favourable comment is heard with reference to the dance band, directed by Nina Kellan, and the band's singing trio. Barbecued steak, dinners, mixed grill, chop suey, chow mein, Coney Island Red Hots, country gravy sandwiches and other dishes for which Jimmy is well-known are served, ion of this fact was carefully avoided. Nova remained an innocent schoolgirl who might or might not, after the end of the last reel, allow her thoughts lightly to turn. to more serious matters than evading the police and tracking down a murderer.

The same problem of adolescence is worrying the production heads of Universal in Hollywood. Is Deanna Durbin mature enough to be allowed have now decided that Deanna had better remain in the infant school fter all, at any rate for one more term.

So her next picture, if plans proceed according to schedule, is to be "Cinderella." Not a simple little fairy-tale but a mammoth production, in colour, of course, which will cost something like a million della a love-interest? story entitled musical score has already "That Certain Age" had been prepared for her, but, somehow the producers weren't quite sure, They plenty of broad come: spectacle.

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