NOVEL METHOD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 3

NOVEL METHOD

OF INTRODUCING SCREEN STAR. One of the most novel methods yet employed for introducing a screen character was devised by Director Tay Garnett for presenting Loretta Young, feminine star of Walter Wanger s “Eternally Yours,” new comedy romance. Miss Young plays the role of wife and assistant to “the Great Arturo,” a master magician in the new film, and as the theatrical sequence of the picture opens David Niven, the magician, is engaged in “creating a woman.”

Wcaving in and out among his array of chemical bottles and mysterious magic laboratory devices. Niven explains the evolution of his illusion, giving romantic names to each chemical he uses in “creating a woman." The various chemical ingredients which compose the human body are deftly poured into the retort, which emits a cool, bluish vapour.

Presto, change, and the great magician adds “jealousy.” “vanity, and “love,” bidding the beauty of his making to arise from the vapour that his audience may behold her. "Now I must add a final touch—'temper'—without which no woman would be complete.” he says, emptying his last bottle. As if actually floating on the vaporous clouds Miss Young steps out of the retort and walks towards the grinning magician. Smitten by the beauty he has created, the magician puts his arms about the girl and kisses her, whereupon the girl slaps his face.