"How I did it," ([c1922])

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Mostly About Ideas picture away? It represents an outlay, just as the egg does. They both slip across a bad one when we're looking; only we can't see the inside of the egg ! Now then, we can't expect the one hundred million of us to devote our time to making hens lay better eggs or the producers to make better pictures. Few of us are familiar enough with either, beyond being able to distinguish between the good and the bad; one with the aid of the nose and the -other with the aid of the eyes. But those of us who have ideas which would make good story material, should put them on paper, and thus be instrumental in the making of better pictures. Some people seem to think that they haven't any ideas. But D. W. Griffith has truthfully said that there is a story in every human being ; but the trouble is to get it out. Perhaps we are not of an observing mind. Some people never get ideas because they are so completely sur- rounded with them. For example: We happen to be passing along a busy thoroughfare during the rush hour. Suddenly we see a man stumble over 19