Camera - April 14, 1923 to February 16, 1924 (April 1923-February 1924)

Page 8 GIVES TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NEW SCREEN WRITERS; HAS ENCOURAGEMENT legitimate bank steals .Qtyc lilxxx OxUnmc January 19th, 1924 Winifred Dunn, Metro scenario editor, now adapting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," offers the following ten rules for budding scenario writers: 1. Fewer and better scenarios. 2. Be original when you see a good picture, don't go home and rewrite it. 3. Read the daily papers — reporters know human drama; study their work. 4. Write what you know — a bookkeeper can seldom speak convincingly of adventure in the South Seas or at the North Pole. 5. Be human — don"t assume a superiority to potential audiences. 6. Be honest — honesty means convincingness and that spells popular approval. 7. Persevere — don't lose courage if your first fifty scenarios are rejected; the first fifty are the hardest. 8. Don't fear studio plagiarism; deal with legitimate organizations, which do not steal ideas any more Dick Sutherland, hailed by many as "the ugliest man on the screen" has completed one of the principal parts in "Defiance" which was Hlmed at the Hollywood studios hy the Brush productions. Hurry 1 Watson! The Smelling Salts! Jean Hersholt, who is supporting Constance Talmadge in "The Gold Fish" has just received a fan letter from a young college student in Kansas who says that inasmuch as Jean must be well acquainted in Hollywood would he please tell the writer what was the college yell of one of the scenario schools that taught by mail. than money. 9. Learn another profession or trade; three regular meals a day keeps your attitude to life normal and pleasant, as it must be for success. 10. Fewer and better scenarios— first, last and all the time. One good scenario has a better chance of acceptance than a hundred poor ones. Fort Completes F. B. O. Continuity Garrett Elsden Fort, special writer for Truart, has completed the continuity of an original story for Richard Talmadge, entitled "In Fast Company." Production is scheduled to start almost immediately, at the F. B. O. studios, under the direction of Jimmie Home, whose latest Douglas MacLean success, "The Yankee Consul," will have an early release. Mr. Fort's second story under his new Truart contract will be an adaptation of a novelette by John Brownell, for Elaine Hammerstein, who is expected back from her vacation in New York very soon. A new sign was discovered on the Fox lot the other day on the comedy side. It read: "Owing to inclement weather, there will be no bananas today." Being a classical interpretation of the w. k. song, we offer it for your edification. Hunter Is Crook in Film Guild Picture Glenn Hunter, the youthful star who has been swept into popularity through his wistful tender portrayals of awkward country boys and whose own ambitions took him away from the small town of Highland Mills, New York, where he was "raised and bred," will be seen in an entirely new role in "Grit," an original crook story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which has been adapted for the screen by James Ashmore Creelman. In this picture, which completes the series of Film Guild productions in which Glenn Hunter is starred, Glenn leaves his usual background of "the wide open space-" to play the role of Kid Hart, a boy crook of the East Side, who is generally known as "the best lock-pick of the gang!" The Kid is a pathetic half starved youngster who has inherited a fear of guns which makes him the laughing stock of his companions but his love for Orchid McGonigle who is not afraid to leave the gang and go straight, finally makes a man of him. Clara Bow plays the part of Orchid and there is a fine supporting cast including Roland Young, Dore Davidson, Osgood Perkins, Townsend Martin, Helenka Adamowaska, Joseph Depew and Martin Broder. Grauman Keeps Role in Taylor Family Sid Grauman evidently determined to keep the portrayal of "Miriam" in "The Ten Commandments" in the Taylor family. On the screen of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in DeMille's production, Estelle Taylor portrays the character of "Miriam" and wins many new admirers daily through her presentation of this part. On the stage, • in the elaborate prologue to the film, Helen Taylor, sister ot Estelle, portrays the character in the flesh. When casting his prologue Mr. Grauman sought a player who resembled Estelle Taylor and asked her if she could recommend one. That same day she received a letter from her sister, who was living at the family home in Wilmington, Del., begging her for an opportunity to come to Hollywood. She told Mr. Grauman. He wired an offer to Wilmington. Sister Helen came and through her close resemblance to Estelle Taylor, more marked when she is in the costume worn by "Miriam," was immediately engaged by Mr. Grau Ralph Lewis is going to Sacramento as the guest of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, to make a personal appearance there during the showing of "The Mail Man" in which he plays the starring role. The screen today has no i exponent of realism than Rt, Simpson. He is an actor who pletely submerges his own pel ality into the characterita A nd he has fought his way ti top through the hard schoo Time and Experience. Ah which is double reason why should see more of him! SYD CHAPLIN COMPLETES "GALLOPING FISH" ROLE; IS LAUDED BY NATH/ His recently seen characterization of the cockney soldier in Marshall Neilan's "The Rendezvous" was Sydney Chaplin's first screen appearance in many moons. It was notable, not only for the signal manner in which he "stole the picture," in the minds of the public and the critics, but also because this time Syd Chaplin is going to stay on the screen permanently. "Her Temporary Husband," which has already had its New York premier and which will be shown locally soon, features him as its principal comedian and advices from the East credit him with another remarkable performance in this production. Chaplin's most ambitious screen characterization will be revealed in Thos. H. Ince's production, "The Galloping Fish," just completed. In this picture, he has created a type which is somewhat along the lines of the over-bashful, selfconscious figure he contributed to "The Pilgrim." As the husband of a devoted, yet excessively jealous young wife, played by Lucille Ricksen — with whom, incidentally, he appeared in "The Rendezvous" — he pictures the trials and tribulations of his type. The most flattering tribute ever paid to a screen player was recently received by Sydney Chaplin, when George Jean Nathan, avowed film-hater, declared — in his recently published book, "The Drama and the Girls" — "I am very interested in the work of S] Chaplin. I consider him the most comedian on the screei day." Keeps Family Castl By Wedding Li "Where there's a woman's there's a way!" That is the manner in whii of the world's most honored ims is being quoted at Univ City today. The story which King Bag directing with Mary Philbin i starring role is the reason. "The Inheritors," by I. A. R. lie. The heroine played by Philbin is a baron's granddf ter, who sees the family castl out of her grandfather's hant to the grasp of a richer fa and the outcome of the story Mary marrying the new poss of the castle. That's a WW way, according to Baggot, o trieving most anything. Nut that the role played nth* "Merry-Go-Round" star is thM a mercenary girl. She isn't *r». cenary at all ; but a sweet. some creature. There is alt** romance in the world in the ftfl in the filming of which Mis* {■ bin is supported by Joseph I wH ing, William Haines, Otto man, Grace Darmond and (M of popular note. L