As Julian listened to the orchestral score, he realized that the composition was his own work - a Scythian Rhapsody - it had been plagiarized by his teacher Professor Palmer.Its plot, co-scripted by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon, was suggested by the story "Spurs" (the film""s working title) by Tod Robbins, published inMunsey""s Magazine(February 1923).Miller and Annette met up with O""Donnell in the North African desert training camp, where Miller was stunned to learn that the Ryans had survived their automobile crash.Three of the characters would become involved in a love triangle.Befitting the film""s satirical heme of admiring or fantasizing about film idols on-screen while struggling in the real world, one might hypothesize that the Boy idolized current film star John Barrymore (who starred inSherlock Holmes (1922), wo years earlier), while the Girl resembled and aspired to be like cinema""s curly-locked sweetheart Mary Pickford, and the Sheik was an aspiring wanna-be Rudolph Valentino (who starred as the itle character inThe Sheik (1921).When Neville returned with Ariana - within the framed picture, the wall opened and revealed a secret passageway behind the portrait - the only one left that led to Hogwarts.