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

Page scan 000188 from "How I did it,"

Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
000188
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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Adaptations Stick to it with a grim persistency, and though your script comes home a dozen times, send it out once more, and maybe the next time it will be accepted. The one who suc- ceeds is the one who sticks to his task. You can't continually fail doing any one thing, un- less there's something wrong with you. I submitted the original script of "The Great Redeemer" to everyone in the industry before Maurice Tourneur finally accepted it. "The Virgin of Stamboul" I wrote especially for Norma Talmadge and finally sold it to the Universal for Priscilla Dean. "The New Moon" I wrote for Dorothy Dalton, and Norma Talmadge purchased it. "Bring Him In" I wrote for Lewis S. Stone, and Earle Wil- liams bought it. "Fightin' Mad" was origi- nally written for Jack Dempsey, and in the end it was enacted by a carefully selected cast including William Desmond, Virginia Brown Faire, William Lawrence, Rosemary Theby, Doris Pawn, Joseph Dowling and Emmett King. I could go on reciting innumerable expe- riences to prove that when a story is com- 129