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

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"How I Did It" pleted the author's work is only half done. It requires just as much patience in disposing of the script as it did in writing it. I wrote a detective story for Earle Williams once and it finally came out as a serial, called "The Third Eye," with Warner Oland and Eileen Percy. If I had become discouraged with the first few refusals of these stories, I would probably have every one of them now resting in the bottom of my trunk. I believe the screen writer, especially the one who lives far from the studio centres, will find much encouragement in the attitude that has been assumed by James Young, the noted director, in searching for a screen adapter to build up Charles H. Hoyt's stage-play, "A Texas Steer," so that it will be thoroughly screenable. This will be no easy task, for "A Texas Steer" is "talky" and lacking in love interest and other important essentials of real picture material. To quote Mr. Young's own estimate of the play, as it stands now it contains but twenty-five per cent of pictorial value. 130