Writing the photoplay ([c1913])

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THE USE AND ABUSE OF INSERTS IQI We have spoken of substituting a newspaper item for a letter. Wherever this can be done, it is well to do it; the newspaper item, being printed, is at least readable. One or two of the studios use letters in which the handwriting is so poor that before all the spectators have read the con- tents of the letter it has disappeared and the scene has been resumed. Let us suppose that Edith, not knowing that her friend, Eleanor, has fallen in love with Jack Temple, whom they met at a resort the previous summer, writes Eleanor a letter in which she says: On screen, letter. and I'll send it in my next letter. By the way, I heard a report that Jack Temple — the fellow that you thought was so bashful — was seriously injured in the wreck of the Buffalo Express last week. I Back to scene. The expression on Eleanor's face, as she reads this, would be the same as if she had picked up a newspaper and read: at the time of the collision. Among those reported injured are James T. Appley, Syracuse, N. Y.; Lloyd W. Stern, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Geo. P. Rowley, Bangor, Me.; and John Temple, New York City. Conductor Thomas Hammond told a. World reporter that as soon as the report of the