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Is as a Lamb in an Abattoir
packetty building. (Some studios are beginning to grant the authors offices as good as the secretaries of the executives). The refined hullabaloo aforementioned has become a thing of the dazzling past. Our author has been patted on the back for the last time.
An Original by Susy Swipes
I— Ie sits in his office and scans, with bulging eyes, his first assignment. He is presently either convulsed with wild mirth or is stricken dumb with incoherent wrath. He has been assigned to adapt and treat an ''original" by one Susy Swipes or Davy Jones of Hollywood. It is an amazing, an incredible document. Its language is almost beyond credence. It is a nightmare patchwork that contains incidents and characters and gags and plots of a hundred or more stories that are horribly reminiscent to the Eminent Author.
A wise and prudent Eminent Author will set right to work upon Susy's or Davy's story. Sometimes, however, he bolts out of his office and dashes across the lot to the opulent administration building, where in ornately luxurious offices the favorites and powers that be hold forth.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." Alas! How sadly these adages apply to the Eminent Author in Hollywood as he forces his way into the sanctum sanctorum of a supervisor, or even such movie royalty as a producer.
Let us draw a kindly veil over what ensues. We will change the subject.
Talking about supervisors. Some are human beings, speaking the author's own language, possessed of a sense of humor, keen, sympathetic and kind. Others belong to that clan that a departing author (was it not Will Irwin?) quaintly dubbed "the dese and dose and dem boys." These bright young fellows sometimes mistake Maeterlinck for a patent medicine and have been known to reject a story by Victor Hugo because he "keeps a restaurant down town." Usually they have a low opinion of authors, consider them pests and bugs and duck out of their way when they see one coming. {Continued on page 110)
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