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HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS 89
his purpose in the play is, proves very helpful, not only to the director but also to the player who portrays the role. This would necessarily be confined to the two or three leading roles, and, as we said before, must be considered. If the writer feels he has drawn the character perfectly in the script proper, it is also unnecessary, though we think it a good plan to use it, anyway.
The writer may also help the director to "get" the meaning of the scenes. If a certain action by a player would spoil an effect the author is striving at, we think great care should be taken to explain, in brackets, within the particular scene, just what the author's purpose is, and why the specified action should not be allowed to creep in. A certain arrangement of the scenes to gain a desired effect is also worthy of a special explanatory note, telling the author's purpose, as are a hundred other things which will bob up here and there throughout a scenario.
Do not use these "extra notes" unless you feel they are needed ; but never hesitate to put them in wherever they seem necessary, for if you can help an earnest director to understand a script by this means he will be sure to remember you as a writer whose scripts he likes to work from.
COMEDY AND ITS DIVISIONS.
We can only distinguish two classes of comedy on the screen at the present time — straight and farce. Both burlesque and travesty have become merely essential elements to the farce, while the straight comedy is going