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HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS 99
chased by leading film companies. The mortgage ploS was thought to have died a natural death in melodrama when the 'papers' were worked overtime by the villain. Not so, Hortense, not so! With the advent of the motion-picture play, all the timeworn tricks of the spoken drama were lugged to the animated screen and presented to the people as 'new stuff.' There was invariably the unjust travesty on the legal profession, the 'shyster' lawyer, who held the mortgage on the old home farm, and who threatened to foreclose the same unless the farmer's beautiful daughter, in love with the honest young husbandman on the adjoining 'forty,' was given to the said lawyer in marriage. The 'shyster' lawyer, so-called, always appeared in an office in which there was a small safe in one corner, and he always visited the safe, produced the papers, and then rubbed his hands in fiendisli satisfaction as he gloated over the documents. Certainly he met with a timely punishment, but in so doing the members of the legal profession were frequently presented in an unfavorable light. The script editors are refusing to buy mortgage plots any more, and it is high time. So mote it be!"
STOLEN-SCRIPT TROUBLE.
A correspondent in Nashville, Tennessee, wrote us recently and complained that he had submitted a script to a "certain individual" of a well-known concern, and that the script had never been returned. A production which almost exactly followed the scenario he wrote has been put out by this company, but letters to the "certain