"Eternally Yurs"

Northern Advocate, 11 May 1940, Page 10

"Eternally Yurs"

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,” the new comedy romance. Miss Young plays the role of wife and assistant to “tne 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.” Weaving 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, chango 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 toward 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. “Okay; Fine! That will work into a magnificent scene,” shouted Director Garnett from the camera platform, beaming with pride. “Okay for the camera perhaps,” answered Niven, "but please tell Loretta were only acting and I said ‘temper,’ not T.N.T., when it comes to that slap.” “Eternally Yours,” which is a United Artists release, features Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia Field and Broderick Crawford.