Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1917-Feb 1918)

158 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE ^EMPIRE: STATE ENGRAVING COMPANY inc DEJ"IGNER-r RETOUCHER-T ENGRAVER-T UhjA ■WWWJWbV^WVWWfi WANTED! Send us your Ideas for IMiotoplays, Stories, Etc. ! They may bring you BIG MONEl ! Rowland Thomas, an "unknown writer," received $5,000 for one story! Elaine Sterne, another beginner, received $1,000 for a single play! You Have Ideas If you go to the movies, if you read magazines—then you know the kind of material editors want. Special education is NOT REQUIRED. Writing is open to ALL CLASSES. "The best reading matter is as frequently obtained from absolutely new writers as it is from famous writers," says a prominent editor. EVERY life has its story. Your Ideas Accepted in Any Form We will accept your ideas in ANY form — tiiher as finished scripts or as mere outlines of plots. Send us your Rare Ideas, Outlines, Plots, Synopses or Finished Stories. We Correct Your Scripts If your work shows merit — but needs correction l.t. fore it can be sold — we will completely REVISE and TYPEWRITE it. Then promptly submit to the Leading Film or Fiction Editors. A small commission is charged for SELLING. This is YOUR OPPORTUNITY. So net busy! Send your manuscripts A T ONCE! WHITE TODAY for FULL DETAILS! WRITER'S SELLING SERVICE DEPT. 41 AUBURN, N. Y. 1WWWVWWWWB| DON'T YOU LIKE My Eyelashes and Eyebrows? ^ You can have the same mm*. Hair Food applied once each day, will absolutely produce thick and long eyebrows and eyelashes. Easy to apply— sure in results. L,ashneen is an Oriental formula. One box is all you will need. Not sold at Druggists. Mailed oil receipt of 25c coin and two cents postage, or Canadian money order. LASHNEEN the Original — Accept no substitute. LASHNEEN COMPANY (Dept.l), PHILADELPHIA LETTERS TO THE EDITOR B. E. Walker, 1221 Lyndon St., South Pasadena, Cal., has found a way to while away many pleasant hours as well as building up a valuable collection of "Moviana": I wonder if some of your many readers would not enjoy an account of a "movie and stage star" collection by a California girl who has, I venture to say, one of the most interesting of the aforementioned collections that has ever been gathered together anywhere. It had its beginning over a year ago, being started in an effort to lighten many long hours of weary dullness that can be dull only as hours of illness are — and if today I am not entirely well (and I am happy to say that I ara nearly that) it is not the fault of negligence on the part of the players who made my collection such an unqualified success, or a lack of letters and photographs to make me so — for they came from all parts of the country, east and west, until now the large book which they comprise, represents one of the most precious and priceless things I possess. My first purpose and idea in making this book was to obtain "character" or costume pictures, but the results were far more delightful and satisfactory than any of which I had ever dreamed, for besides many of these, it contains snapshots, studio photographs and "still" pictures of all kinds — and if it misses including all of the best-known stars in the theatrical world, it is only because I have not written to them all — for which many may sigh a sigh of deep relief! You may well understand, too, how much I really appreciate all the kind answers when I say that I fully realize the frenzy with which most of these actors and actresses could tear their hair when they regard the pile upon pile of letters confronting them, begging away their likenesses. So I doubly appreciate mine; and if there are a very few of my many requests still unanswered, I expect they will sometime be found, in future delving — and if not, to forgive the besieged ones for what I feel would be unintentional oversight rather than otherwise. I truly admire their almost colossal patience with the unthinking humans who daily pester them to death — among which, I admit myself as one. True it is* owing to the wide scope of my endeavors, that I could not send the usual amount customary for pictures, and this much to my regret. I am no millionaire — just a plain little, every-day dream-girl, and the amount of Uncle Sam's postage alone ran up to 8 or 9 — well, not cents, or nonsense — but worth every bit of what it was, just the same! For today, there is the gladdest little song dancing and singing its way thru my heart — because it discovered one of the most wonderful things in the world: that "people are kind", most beautifully so — and I was never refused one request. Kindness cannot be bought with gold, and, indeed, how could any