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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 16

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-AUTHORS' CHANCE WITH TALKIES "Talking: motion pictures now offer the •'reative author unlimited scope for the producing- of any conceivable effect. Where the novelist is limited on the printed page and the playwright in the narrow dimensions of the stage, the script writer may depend on film technicians to get him any effect necessary to his purpose. That statement comes from George Marion, Junr., author of the screen »tory for Paramount's new musical comedy, “Let’s Go Native,’’ featuring Jeanette MacDonald. ‘There are a thousand things that the novelist cannot touch because they cannot be put across in narrative on a printed page,” he says. "And there are several more thousand things that the dramatist is forbidden because of the narrow limitations of his three-sided room and juggling of entrances and exits. But the writer laying out script for a talking picture has the reassuring knowledge that, with sound added to the flexibility of the silent picture, any desired effect is possible.” Thus, in preparing ‘ Let’s Go Xative,” which features Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher, William Austin and Eugene .Pallette, Marion worked in several unique stunts which prove a feature of the picture.