Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

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writer's opinion, a great
opportunity for the free-lanct
scenario writer-a chance for the
chap who could produce a move
idea, an unusual plot and Snappy
dialogue. The back-Stage anC
crime pictures, accompanied by
musical scores, and ShriekS with
machine gun obbligato appeared
to be haunting the producers and
turning into nightmares for the
cash customers. Well, we had the
novel idea and all that sort OF
thing, so all we had to do was to
work it out according to the Holly
wood formula. But after we con-
structed part of the synopsis cas-
usually happens with creative
writerS) the whole thing Jagged
and another brilliant writer has
jumped in ahead of us, again re-
vealing the fact that even an idea
is never safe. Here is the synopsis
as far as we typed it:
"The lights of the aurora boreallS
hit fltfully, as though some Great
Power is turning them on and off.
1t is the quiet of the evening
(Which Is about six months long,
Here and there and now and then
we hear the mating call Of polar
bear or the grunt of mother seal
calling her young ones to the YES
pers meal. But, on the whole,
peace reignS supreme. Nannook,
the beautiful Eskimo maiden, is
seated under an arbor in her back
yard, stunning her Scandi-
navian lutte and grooming 'Tiptoe
Through the Tulips. She is dress
ed in a black lace curtain, trim
med with f1ounceS or skunk and
inSetS of Iceland peonies. Comes
the clatter of hoofS in the dis
lance, and up rides Wild Jack
Chinook, known as The Beast Of
the Northern Lights on his snow
white reindeer. The bad man, who
Is the black sheep of real good
Greenland family, reinS in his
steed, throwing the animal back
on launches, and then he sweeps
OF his giant SealSkin Sombrero
and stops in front of the beautiful,
grooming Nannook, who is known
as The Beauty of Greenland's Icy
Mountains He makes a nasty
crack dialogue to be filled In
later and the lovely Nannook tells
him to go on about his business
and peddle his Arctic evening
papers. Naturally. one word brings
on another, and the first thing We
know there is hot argument for
such cool evening. During the
melee, or fracas, Wild Jack Chin
nook is stabbed with a harpoon,
r1ySteriouSly and silently hurled
At this anti-climax. who should
ride up but the gallant and ex-
ceedingly handsome Paul Angus
tus WhittenhouSe, captain Of the
Mounted Police, who has been In
love with the adorable Nannook
since the days when she ate the
tallow candles off her own Christ
mas tree. There is only one thing
for him to do. In spite of his deep
seated affection for Nannook, he
is forced to arrest her for the
murder of Wild Jack Chin
nook"
It was at this point that our
scenario Jagged. But during the
past week, we went down F street
to see Lenore Ulrich, in Frozen
Justice"-arad there was our Eski-
mo heroine, as big as life!
*** X
A REMARKABLY large number
of the former silent pic
ture stars are doing well in the
sound pictures. This is situation
which has surprised the critics of
the movies. While a few of the old
public favoriteS have gone back
to the perfume counters and floor
walking, and several have retreat
ed to their native lands, a goodly
percentage are even gaining pop
ularity with their talking ven
lures.
All this is brought to mind by a
pre-view last Tuesday night of
Sunny Side Up" under the aus
pices of Hardie Meakin of the Fox
Theater. Janet Gaynor and
Charles Farrell, two of the newer
stars of the "silents," are thor
oughly capable in the sound pic
lures. Both have voices of pleas
ing quality, although severe critics
might pick a few flaws in then
singing records. And, for genuine
entertainment, one can hardly af-
ford to miss Sunny Side Up
The story is a romantic affair, Z
Prince Charming story in a mod
ern setting. and we grown ups
surely retain enough of our child
iSh dreams to appreciate the idea
Some of us never grow up.
X
A MONG the letters coming tc
the writer's desk during the
past week is the following:
Dear Sir: Perhaps you can SCI
me right on this question. Most o.
the moving picture magazines anc
not few of the newspaper NOV
ing picture editors printed Ions
stories a couple of years ago tell