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HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS 145
narios as you will those who have made other "stabs" at literary fame.
The real worth of the article lies in what it says about the soul of the scenario being action, and the soul of action being contact with life. This does not mean, as we explained recently, that a person must live a roughand-ready life of adventure, or that he must stroll far off the beaten paths; but it does mean that he must be close to the life about him. He must come in contact with it.
A NEW STYLE OF FARCE COMEDY.
Doubtless many of you have seen the latest Keystone releases in which a noticeable change from the old style of farce appears. Mack Sennett, the wizard of this style of motion-picture plays, has decided that the day of brick throwing, et cetera, is over, and that the comedy of the future must be a little more genteel. To bring his productions up to the new standard he has set for himself, he has secured several well-known actors, who have appeared in what is popularly known as the "polite comedy," and has "toned down" the actions of his own comedians.
This does not mean that Keystone will at once forsake the old style of comedy, but it does mean that you will see many more productions of this kind in the near future than you will of the old variety. From the outside, the change certainly looks like a good one, for if the pictures can be kept as spontaneously funny as some of the past offerings of this company — we do not say all of them —