Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

Page scan 000312 from Camera

Record Details:

Title:
Camera
Date:
May 1922-April 1923
Volume:
Camera (Apr.7-Apr. 15, 1922-1923)
Leaf #:
000312
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
California State Library
Sponsor:
California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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Page Twenty "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMERA ! The Dotted Line Chapter II. THERE was a bright younj^ man in liollywood who wrote screen stories. Sometimes he sold tliem. l^ut althout^h he combined the best qualities of (ieorge x\de. O. Henry, Rupert Hughes and Richard Harding Davis, his incoming mail was just as bulky as that he sent out. His stufif was good. His friends among scenario buyers admitted it. '■P>ut," tiiey told liim, "we're not doing anything like that just now. You see . . ." He thought he did see. But he kept right on sending the right stories to the wrong studios. Then one day he picked up Camera !, glanced through it, then devoured every line. He found out what stuff each studio was doing. "Xow I'm going at^his systematically," he muttered. He mailed in a subscription so he'd get Camera ! on the dot every week. Then he followed the hunches Camera ! gave him and sold stories ever after. Just a ticist of the wrist, and this corner of the poi/c is torn off — try it! Siijv it and send. DEAR CAMERA ! : Here's $2.00. Put me on the mailing list for 52 consecutive copies of the only news weekly for motion picture people. t Camer^\ ! 4S13 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles (Los Angeles County $2.00; United States $2.50; Canadian $3.00; Foreign $3.50.)