Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

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Advertising Sf.ction 9 Elizabeth Thacher A Housewife — who found that she could do it We Pay $1000 and Royalties to men and women anywhere, of any age, who can learn to write photoplays. A novel, free test, made at home, will tell you if YOU can learn as Mrs. Thacher did. UNDER the new Palmer Photoplay Production Plan we pay royalties for five years on the profits of pictures, with an advance payment of $1000 cash, for stories we select for Palmer/>lays. This permits new, Palmer trained writers and photoplaywrights, for the first time, to share in the success of the screen stories of their own creation. At the same time, we continue to be the largest single agency for the sale of scenarios to the great producing organizations of the country. They gladly pay $2000 and rarely offer less than $500 for acceptable screen stories. Yet the demands are far from adequately filled. These fortunes are actually going begging because many men and women, endowed with story-telling ability, have not discovered it. So we are searching the land for this hidden talent which we train for success in this rich field of endeavor. We Will Test YOU without cost or obligation THIS search is being tremendously successful because of a novel Creative Test we have developed. You may test yourself under this plan without cost or obligation. Send the coupon below. Your answers to the questions will indicate whether or not you possess the creative imagination which opens this rich field to you. Advisory Council Frederick Palmer. Author and Educator Thos. H. Ince, Producer Allen Holubar, Producer and Director E. J. Banks, M. A., Director, Sacred Films, Inc. Rob Wagner, Scenarist and Director Rex Ingram, Director and Producer C. Gardner Sullivan, Scenarist J. L. Frothingham, Producer James R. Quirk, Editor, Photoplay Magazine Educational Staff Officers Claylon Hamilton, M. A. , Director of Education Douglas Z. Doty, Editor-in-Chief Ethel Styles Middleton of Pittsburgh, wrote "Judgment of -the Storm," a Palmerp\ay, on which she receives royalties on the profits for five years, having already received an advance payment of $1000. "Judgment of the Storm," the first Palmer-play, will be released in August. Written directly for the screen, it presents a visual lesson in the new technique as taught in our educational department. Thousands are waiting to see this extraordinary photoplay. Watch for it! We hold your answers confidential, of course. If they indicate that you are endowed with this ability, you will receive additional information relative to the Palmer Course and Service, which will fit you for this work. If you are not so endowed we will tell you frankly and courteously. The Experience of Elizabeth Thacher NOT long ago, Elizabeth Thacher, a busy Montana housewife, little dreamed that she was different from thousands of other housewives. Yet she took Palmer training and wrote a successful photoplay and Thomas H. Ince was glad to buy it at a handsome figure — the first she ever tried to write. Never before had she even written for publication. And, in fact, had no desire to write, until one day she saw an adver tisement like this one which told of the opportunities for new and unknown writers of ability and training to earn rich rewards. When shortly after her enrollment she sold her first story to Thomas H. Ince, she wrote: "I feel that such success as I have had is directly due to the Palmer Course and your constructive help." Know About Yourself MANY men and women, like Elizabeth Thacher, have the ability to win success in this field. We are preparing qualified men and women, not alone for scenario writing, but also for positions of all kinds in the producing companies. And many others, with no desire to become professional screen writers, are developing under our training their power of Creative Imagination, for they realize how much more success, in any field of endeavor, comes to those who possess this power, properly developed. You may know whether or not you are endowed with Creative Imagination, if you will just ask for the Palmer Creative Test. There's no cost — no obligation. It may discover in you this gift that you will want to develop. Perhaps your life holds stories which the world is seeking and for which the world will pay you well. Mail the coupon. Test yourself. Know if you are wasting these hidden talents. {Tests returned by persons under legal age will not be considered.) Palmer Photoplay Corporation, Department of Education, Sec. 1309 Palmer Building, Hollywood, Calif. Please send me by return mail your Creative Test which I am to fill out and mail back to you for analysis. It is understood that this coupon entitles me to an intimate personal report on my ability by your Examining Board, without the slightest obligation or cost on my part. Also send me, free, Carrol B. Dotson's booklet, "How a $10,000 Imagination Was Discovered." Name Street City State All correspondence strictly confidential.