The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

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4 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY May 14, 1921 Service page for "Wolves of the North" AT A GLANCE SUBJECT— "Wolves Of The North." STAR— Eva Novak. PREVIOUS HITS— "Wanted at Headquarters," "The Torrent," "Society Secrets," "The Smart Sex," etc. DIRECTED BY— Norman Dawn. STORY BY— Norman Dawn. SCENARIO BY— Wallace Clifton. SUPPORTING CAST — Herbert Heyes, Starke Patterson, Percy Challenger, Barbara Tennant, Clyde Tracy, William Eagle-Eye, Millie Impolito. LOCALE— Alaska. TIME— The Present. PHOTOGRAPHY BY— Thos. Rea. THUMB-NAIL THEME — The story of a young American girl in Alaska who tries to guage a primitive romance by conventional standards; of a big adventure which proves the error of her judgment and permits her to see the real gold beneath the rough veneer of the man she loves. ADVERTISING PUNCHES 1— "Wolves Of The North" is a magnificent scenic production, showing inspiring vistas of the Arctic zone. 2 — It was directed by Norman Dawn, who became known as an actiondirector when he put "The Fire Cat," "Lasca" and "The Adorable Savage" on the screen. 3 — The pleasing screen personality of Eva Novak and her fast-growing popularity. 4 — The interesting supporting cast, including two popular young leading men, Herbert Heyes and Starke atterson: two clever character actors, Percy Challenerer and Clyde Tracy: a real Indian chief, William Eagle-Eye and Millie Impolito, the spectacular Spanish beauty. 5 — The spectacle of an avalanche ci-ushing out the life of a faithless man and of death locking him in an embrace with a woman so that the girl to whom he was pledged could see his unfaithfulness with her own eyes. 6 — Amazing "trick" photography by which a gentle dog is transfonned into a snarling wolf as if by magic — just one of the clever atmospheric touches in which the story abounds. 7 — The startling implication of the story that there is a strain of the wolf in all men. 8 — The romantic locale and the picturesque costumes. 9 — The speed with which the breathcatching story is unfolded and the hiffh-voltage of the climax. 10 — Wild scenes in an Alaskan mining camp during a gold rush. Synojysis of Story WOLVES OF THE NORTH" I N the village of Unalik, on the southern coast of Alaska lived Aurora Norris with her father who taught the Indians at the little mission school. Aurora was eighteen and had developed a rigid code of ethics due to her deep reading. Two men of the north: David, a youth of her age, careless and selfconfident, and Wiki Jack, about thirtyfive, a big hard living miner of the North Woods, were rivals for the love of Aurora. The girl liked David but was fascinated by the rough giant and yet he failed to measure up to her code because of his way of living. Walking through the snow at dusk one day with her great wolf dog, Aurora meets Wiki Jack who takes her in his arms and kisses her several times. When he releases her he is struck with remorse at what he has done. The girl returns to the village and reluctantly tells David. With the unreasoning fury of youth David meets Waki Jack on the trail and strikes the giant. This arouses the brute in the man and he hurls the youth down a steep bank. This incident causes Aurora to become publicly engaged to David to humiliate Jack. With news of a gold strike further north David left the village and went CAST "Wiki Jack" Horn Herbert Heyes Prof. Emerson Cabot Norris, Percy Challenger Aurora Norris Eva Novak David Waters Starke Patterson Jenfau Jen Barbara Tennant Massakee William Eagle-Eye Lech _„ Clyde Tracy Rose of Spain Millie Impolito away while Wiki Jack continued to work at his small mine. Aurora hears that David is married to Rose of Spain, a designing woman of the boom mining camp. She set out for the north to learn the truth for herself, followed by Wiki Jack. Shortly after her arrival at the camp the mountain above the town hurled down an avalanche of snow and ice crushing out the lives of the inhabitants of the camp. Wiki Jack, who had followed Aurora, saved her life by holding her under a protecting ledge of rock while the avalanche rolled past them. Together they dig their way to the window of the largest cabin in town and see through the fallen timbers David and the woman who had taken her place, locked by death in an embrace. Overcome by the sight before her, Aurora turned toward Wiki Jack and for the first time realized how much she needed his protecting arms. Theatre Name Here The crashing silence of the Arctic lashed her nerves and drove her to seek refuge in the heart of a wolfman. See Eva Novak in "Wolves Of The North." Eva Novak in "Wo/i^es of//}0 //oi'^h " UNIVE-CSAL. There is a law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: Send not your weak and your feeble; send me your strong and your sane. That is the theme of "Wolves Of The North," the Universal action-drama with Eva Novak.