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A WRITER'S favorite person to interview is another writer. (This is not Narcissism, but is founded upon the same fraternal fascination which causes one airline pilot to seek out another at a party, or one surgeon to compare case histories with any available colleague.) Second interview choice is anyone with talent. Talented folk are inevitably "good copy" — i.e., their reported conversation makes spirited reading. Third choice (feminine) is a handsome, well-groomed man with a ready wit and a way with women.
When all three choices are combined — improbably enough — in one human being, it is not surprising that Officer Dunnegan, gateman at Republic Studios, is driven frantic by a daily influx of writers cajoling the officer for passes to the Nelson Eddy set.
The title of the picture Mr. Eddy is now completing is still in jeopardy. Originally it was called "One Exciting Kiss," a label with critical implications since Mr. Eddy kisses Ilona Massey jour times in the film. Queried on this situation, Hona (who is still fighting the English language syllable by syllable) responded, "I enjoyed every four of them." Shunning the temptation to call the opus, "Four Exciting Kisses," studio officials delighted Freudians and betrayed their box office ambitions by titling it "End of the Rainbow." As soon as the weather cleared and North Hollywood began to swelter in a series of ninety-five degree days, some genius had a chilling idea. Currently, the picture is called "Northwest Outpost."
Observed Nelson, "Someone should reassure the customers that, despite my Charlie McCarthy reputation for being a slow man with a dollar, I do NOT wear the red coat left over from 'Rose Marie' in this picture."
To return to our introduction which accused Nelson Eddy of being 1) a fellowwriter, 2) talented, and 3) handsome and witty along with having a way with women, it is high time someone stressed these truths while dispersing the nasty rumor that Nelson Eddy is aloof, ungracious, or inclined to take himself too seriously.
For years around Hollywood there was an unjust impression that Nelson Eddy was the Charles Evans Hughes of the vocal cord — resplendent with talent, remote with dignity. It is (Please turn to page 87)
"Maybe I can buy a git-tar and learn to be the chap who chirrups in chaps," kids Nelson Eddy. Right now you'll see him in Republic's "Northwest Oufpost," in which he plays a dashing Captain in a colorful story of the Russian settlement in northern California. Lovely Ilona Massey, facing page, is the gal.