We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
44 Ink in Their Veins
Mvide M. Katterjohn, center, has submitted an idea to William S. Hart, between scenes, while Hart considers it, Cliff Smith takes it down in notes.
soon after started a publication called Motor Topics. It failed. He freelanced. That failed. He started a moving-picture scenario school. It failed. Then he took off his coat and began to make good for Ince, for whom he has been making good ever since, at a salary that nobody should permit himself tO' sneeze at.
We will now quit piking along at retail, and present them by the wholesale — three-quarters of a dozen assorted, plain, and fancy scenario' writers. They compose the Balboa staff, and we are told that they live together in harmony. At their head is Will M. Ritchey, who is their editor in chief. The others are Dan F. Whitcomb, Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, who is the author of more than five hundred photo dramas ; Douglas Bronston, Luther A. Reed, Lela Leibrand, Frances Guihan, L. Virginia Waters, and Sylvia Gibson-Gowland. Their combined salaries, if laid end to
end, would reach from here to any national debt, and overlap said debt to a large extent.
Adrian Johnson, who prepares many of Miss Theda Bara's manuscripts, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and educated by the Jesuit priests. He was a clerk in an office for a while, but was not buried so deeply under his ledgers that the raucous shouts of the currency to be earned in the pictures could not reach to him. He has red hair, and has committed a novel, thus joining the vast majority, and it is rumored that his salary is twenty-five thousand. Some of his best-known plays are ''The Ruse," "The Marriage Bond," "The Tragedy of Wall Street," and "The Lure of Fleart's Desire." His former employer in his commercial career recently took a glance at Johnson's monthly check, and then entered bankruptcy.
J. G. Hawks, who is with Ince, has the startling distinction of never hav