The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

of Science 9i Mary Fuller, Gertrude McCoy and Bessie Learn, all with the Edison Company, are experienced writers of photoplays, and nearly all of the Edison male players, such as have been with that company several years, add to their income materially through an ability to turn out compelling scenarios. While in the Vitagraph Company no week goes by that at least two of the releases do not reveal the names of Vitagraph players as authors. At least twenty members of the acting forces write photoplays. All of the ladies holding important positions in the scenario departments of the big studios were able fiction writers before entering filmdom. Elizabeth V. Breuil, Marguerite Bertsch, F. Marion Brandon, and Louella Parsons, the first two with the Vitagraph, the last two with Eclair and Essanay respectively, were accepted story writers, who quickly grasped the technic of the photoplay and became in short order practically the most important executives in the studios, occupying the same position and holding the same authority as the editor-in-chief of the story magazine. Monte Katterjohn, who was one of the first to write photoplays for the Vitagraph Company, and who has retired from a long service to the Universal Company as its scenario editor, was and still is a prolific contributor to the best magazines. Mr. Katterjohn's success in the last few years is the best illustration of the type of author to find in the present vogue of photoplays a profitable vocation, and it is such as he that will come forth with renewed vigor and with a far greater financial reward when the producers are confronted with a demand from 30,000 photoplayhouses for something more vital and original than picturized versions of more