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

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"How I Did It" clipping and index it. You can get the ad- dress of any film star, producer or player, by writing to the fan magazines, but it is some- times weeks before your answer is printed. Suppose you sent a story to Lasky's Holly- wood Studio marked for Ethel Clayton. It is probable they would return the script with Miss Clayton's new address. But suppose they didn't. You get your story back and you are at sea as to where to locate Miss Clayton. Go to one of your neighborhood moving picture theatres and ask the manager if he knows with what concern Ethel Clayton is now identified. Maybe he never played Para- mount-Lasky pictures when Ethel Clayton was with Lasky, and maybe he is not booking Robertson-Cole pictures, which will include Ethel Clayton productions. But just the same that exhibitor reads a number of trade journals and is alive as to the star changes and movements. If he knows for a certainty that Ethel Clayton is with Robertson-Cole, you are on the right track; but if he is in doubt, ask him to get this information for you. He can find out from the exchange where he buys his 188