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The Latest Wrinkle — Silhouette Movies 47
wishing ring, which he is allowed to use four times, and four only.
His first wish transforms his donkey into a human companion, and his second gives him a Pullman car de luxe magic carpet, on which he speeds away to the Orient in search of adventure. On tumbling off the carpet before the gates of Bagdad, the two men are taken prisoners and borne away to the sultan. He is an amiable monarch, however, and, learning of the wishing ring, decides to commute a death sentence to a reward of a life of bliss and luxury, provided the two adventurers will find a rare pearl stolen by a dragon in the near-by mountains.
For reward, the sultan's beautiful daughter is promised to the sailor to wife. The two find the dragon, which proceeds, without ceremony, to attack them. Fired with the hope of winning the promised reward, they think up a remarkable scheme — that of pouring tabasco sauce down the monster's
throat. The trick succeeds, for the dragon hastily coughs up the pearl, and, picking up the pearl and fleeing, the two men turn back just in time to see the dragon being destroyed by flames kindled by the fatal tabasco. The sultan is at once sought, but the supposedly beautiful princess turns out to be an ugly old trot.
The sailor is naturally disgusted, and decides — his third wish — to turn the companion of his trials back into a donkey. Then his fourth wish — he sets sail on his magic carpet for New York, intending to dispose of the pearl. At a pawnshop, he discovers the reward of so much effort to be worth exactly thirty cents, and the story ends with the picture of his chagrin.
Certain things will be observed about this little fable : its speed, its calm depiction of the preposterous, its romantic setting, its odd mixture of fable and modern everydayness, its straightaway narrative, with no moralistic twist at the
A scene from "Colonel Heeza Liar's Waterloo," the series that won motion-picture fame for Mr. Bray.