Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

$100 Prize Photoplay Contest The Great Artists of Photoplay Will Be Cast in Plays Written by Our Readers The third month of the $100 Prize Photoplay Contest still sees an excellent and producible quality of photoplays being submitted to the editor of the Prize Photoplay Contest. It can be announced that for many of the leading players some strong and dramatic material has been received. In the cases of other players, very few photoplays have been submitted. The editor suggests that now is the time to get busy if you care to see some of your favorites appear in photoplays of your own composition. No doubt the judges, who consist of the editorial staff of the Motion Picture Magazine and the scenario editors of the leading studios, will be able in nearly all cases to find material that is likable and producible. The closing date will be January 10th, at noon. It has been previously announced that Clara Kimball Young has left the Vitagraph Company, and that Earle Williams now has Anita Stewart as his leading lady. For the best photoplay written for these stars, $100 in gold will be paid. As Edith Storey won a very high place in the Photoplay Contest, she, as well as her new leading man, Antonio Moreno, are eligible to the list printed below. There will probably be fifteen or more other prizes for photoplays to be paid for and accepted at their regular rates by the studios whose artists have won places in the Great Artist Contest. These photoplavs will be known as "Prize Plays "of the Great Artist Contest," and their authors will receive recognition on the screen, in the Motion Picture Magazine, in the trade papers, newspapers and theatrical reviews. The result of the Great Artist Contest shows that the following players are eligible : Mary Fuller and Warren Kerrigan (Universal) ; G. M. Anderson and Marguerite Clayton (Western Essanay) ; Arthur Johnson and Lottie Briscoe (Lubin) ; Alice Joyce and Tom Moore (Kalem) ; Crane Wilbur and Pearl White (Pathe) ; Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne (Essanay) ; Blanche Sweet and Henry Walthall (Mutual) ; Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno (Vitagraph) ; Gertrude McCoj^ and Augustus Phillips (Edison) ; Florence LaBadie and James Cruze (Thanhouser) ; Vivian Rich and Jack Richardson (American). An opposite player was not voted for for the following great artists, but scenarios may be written for them unattached: Mary Pickford (Famous Players) ; Romaine Fielding (Western Lubin) ; Carlyle Blackwell (Carlyle Blackwell Players) : Claire McDonald (Biograph) ; King Baggot (Imp) ; Edwin August (Eaco) ; Kathyn Williams (Selig) ; Mabel Normancl (Keystone) ; Marguerite Fischer (Beauty) ; Muriel Ostriche (Princess) ; Ethel Grandin (Smallwood) ; Ford Sterling (Ford Sterling Company). The rules have been made as simple as possible, and are as follows : (1) Photoplays may be submitted in detailed synopsis form or as complete photoplays. Only one and two-reel photoplays are desired. Each contestant may submit not more than two photoplays, and no employees of the Motion Picture Magazine or any Motion Picture company may compete. (2) Photoplays should feature two predominant principals: a leading man player and a leading woman player of the same company, except as aforesaid. (3) No type of play is barred, but contestants should use discretion. Comedies are not wanted for dramatic actors, nor vice versa, and foreign and inaccessible locations are not generally favored by the manufacturers. (4) Photoplays should be typewritten, and mailed folded, not rolled. (5) Photoplays should be addressed to Editor Prize Photoplay Contest. 175 Duffield Street. Brooklyn, N. Y.. and a selfaddressed, stamped envelope should be enclosed. 132