"N.Z. Truth" Wriites A Moving Picture Scenario

NZ Truth, Issue 1126, 30 June 1927, Page 1

"N.Z. Truth" Wriites A Moving Picture Scenario

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iiiitiiiiiiiiniiiHiiiiiHiriiiiiiiiiHfiiiimHffffiniimiiiiifiiimniif/m^ card company, we have deemed it reasonable- to excise the' Act from the original scenario. However, stated briefly, this' Act has to do with the screen tests and all the other! little tests, required to sift, the beauty and the boodle from the entrant. . Scene : Interior of small house, m the Timbucwaggawagrga, a rich farming ' district. Old Bill Backbloclc is looking admiringly upon his daughter, Bertha. Bill: So yer won the i "Missed. Noo Zealand Boosting Competition" did J^er? .■'■'■'-,. " N Bertha: Too right, dadda, it was'the charnst- of a loife-time. Bill: Bit costly, though. It cost your old mum and dad nearly a nuadred quid which was a bit thick for a few thousand votes; 'Owever, yer won't see another forty-eighth birthday, and we ain't whippin* the Thomas cat. Bertha (saucily) : Not, forty-eight, Dadda, fifty-one, dear. But ; I look young, don't I? • :" EXIT RIGHT Bill: Betcha! Wot are yer goin' to do with them 'undreds and 'undreds o* bundles 'f "Dull and Drearys" piled up m the spare room with the voting coupons cut outer 'em?" ■■■/,., .-."-. Bertha;. Oh; they'll burn up all right ori wash-days/ ' Bill: Then ' yer mustn't ferget you'll 'aye ter look spruce, like, afore yer go ■on show with this vaudeville-movin' pitcher actress business. My, ain't you lucky? Bertha: They can turn the eczema gide of my face to . the shade when they take the picture, and Mum said I could have the loan, of her false teeth.'. . ■■'■■■ ' - Bill: My, 'ow grand. These daily nobspapers do think o' some clever 'things."'-,-''"."-':. ' - v Bertha: Yes. clever, very, very clever. How much did you say it cost to win? Grand assembly of disappointed entrants, mothers and circulation managers; heard gnashing, their false teeth, to the > fade-out of a roll of notes. CURTAIN.