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

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Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
000157
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"Hot* I Did It" enthusiastic over my story and asked me if I had disposed of the picture rights. I con- fessed I had not thought of the screen, and was not interested in that sort of work. I confided to her that I had listened to the grievances of many of my friends who had spent hours and days waiting outside the office of scenario editors, and had resolved long be- fore that I would not subject myself to such embarrassment. Miss Printzlau then said that she thought I had a "sure-fire" sale in this story, and ad- vised me to waste no time in getting it before a scenario editor, as she was convinced it would result in an immediate sale. I smiled, and raised a protesting hand. You see, I was being forced into it. But she was persistent, and asked me to go and see C. Gardner Sulli- van, scenario editor at the Ince Studios, and let him read the story. I confessed that almost all the manuscript was in the office of the pub- lisher in New York—for I had succeeded in selling the story upon submitting the first two chapters—and that all I could give Sullivan 102