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He wrote his first photoplay in October, 1911, and followed this with three more; but all four were rejected promptly. At a later date, he was persuaded to submit one of the four a second time, and this led to his first sale (Essanay). But his next efforts were all rejected, and he lost interest again. Some six months later he visited a moving-picture plant for the first time, and this resulted in the fatal attack of the photoplay-writing fever. He started tO' work in earnest in July, 1912.
He has been prominently identified from the start with the different movements for the benefit of the photoplay author. When it was suggested that "gettogether" circles of writers be formed, he organized the first of these — The Chicago Inquest Club. He was in New York to help organize the parent inquest club, and has recently organized the Los Angeles circle. He was the first photoplay author to have a man arrested for the theft of a scenario, and when the case was decided against him he agitated the matter in the trade papers, finally persuading a number of the more prominent writers in Los Angeles to attend the meeting which resulted in the formation of the Photoplay Authors' League.
He was among the first to take the stand that the photoplay author must be a technical expert in all matters of photoplay production, in order to arrange the material in his stories in the most effective manner, and to follow this with careful study. He has directed and played in scenes and has designed and originated a number of effects. He was among the first to announce his belief that the author will be of more importance to the film than the players and the director.