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SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1930 PAGE SIXTEEN INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN An Open Letter to the Motion Picture Producers GENTLEMEN: One of the best known stage directors in musical comedy wants a bid from a big studio as director of comedy shorts. This director is known as the most successful stager of musical stage shows in the entire west.* Has directed some of the biggest stars in the talking picture industry in their greatest stage successes. He knows dialogue, casting, books, music, dancing ensembles aiid speed in delivery. And he can and does handle big casts to the complete satisfaction of the producer, the cast and stars themselves and—to Old John Public. In fifteen years of stage direction his name has never been connected with a financial failure. THERE’S A RECORD FOR THE BIGGEST NAMES TO SHOOT AT! He is at this moment directing one of the most successful musical comedy productions in the west and is known as a success to the heads of every theatrical circuit west of Chicago. He believes that talking pictures have come to stay and that the public now actually prefers a real talking picture to stage entertainment, and, seeing the trend of the public taste, is smart enough to want to follow the public’s dictates. Hence he asks for an opportunity to meet the heads of the various studios and an opening as a director of comedy talking picture productions. He owns the copyrights to hundreds of accepted stage successes by known authors and knows this, stage material is ideal for comedy shorts. He has always been accepted by the legitimate theatre executives and has no intention of trying to enter the talking picture industry through politics, family connections, “wire-pulling” or through cultivating the acquaintance of the Gate Tenders Association of Hollywood. Hence this appeal direct to the producing heads and a request for an interview. Being a producer himself he knows the time wasted in interviewing “false alarms” and secretly wonders how some of the names now brought in under contracts ever made it. Give your correspondent an interview and I’ll make a wager that you will be so well pleased that you will pay for this advertisement. Anyhow, thanks for your time in reading it. “DIRECTOR” 801 WARNER BROS. DOWNTOWN BLDG. Phone TUcker 7832 * MAKE ME PROVE IT! '■f