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86 HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS
take it up in a week or so, and, by revamping and rewriting it, make it into a scenario which would tempt any editor or director.
THE COMEDY WRITER.
Do not think that you have to be an undertaker to write comedy, if you are one of the class who believe only serious people can write nonserious stuff. Or do not think that one has to be a village cut-up to attain the same position, as seems to be the popular belief among another class.
The man who writes comedy scripts for the screen is liable to be of almost any size or disposition. Among our personal friends are two scribes who sell almost all the comedy scripts they write, but of whom have still to register their first sale of a dramatic script. Their make-up is entirely different. One cares nothing at all for other people's society and likes to do serious things in his own way at his own pleasure; while the other fellow is never in greater delight than when surrounded by a party of his friends and telling funny stories. This is but one of the things in which they differ; there are dozens of others.
It all goes to show that humor is not something which is restricted to a certain type of persons, but which is lying dormant in all intelligent humans, and is merely more highly developed in some than in others. Perhaps you are a comedy writer and do not know it. We would advise all those who have considered comedy beyond their power to give themselves a thorough trial at writ