Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1917-Feb 1918)

158 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE i LJUNDREDS of people make BIG MONEY * * writing Photoplays, Stories, Articles, Etc.! Rowland Thomas, an "unknown writer," received $5,000 for one story! Elaine Sterne, another beginner, received $1,000 for a single play! Why don't YOU write something? YOU have ideas. If you go to the Movies, if you read magazines — then you know the kind of material editors want. YOUR happy thoughts may bring Big Rewards! No Instruction Courses needed. We accept your bare ideas in ANY FORM — either as finished scripts or as mere outlines of plots. If your ideas need correction before they can be sold, we revise, ^T improve, perfect and typewrite T§ them. Then promptly submit ^^ to Leading Film and Fiction g Editors. A small commission J) is charged for selling. m~ This is YOUR OPPOR ^ TUNITY! So get busv! % Send us your Bare Ideas, BT Plots, Articles, Poems, Fin J" ished Stories. And write o« m TODAY for fall details. 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EXACT SIZE OF WTT'li PAUL RIEGER, 242 First St., San Francisco FACE POWDER Stays On i application lasts all day. and gives a c beautiful complexion. The best, purest, only ad ve— 60c box. FREE SAMPLES Exora Powder. Roosre. »m, Cerate end Mapcarillo 6ent on receipt of lOcfor packing. CHAS. MEYER. 9 E. 13th Street, HEW YORK Across the Silver Sheet (Continued from page 111) thruout the photoplay. Francis Carpenter as Aladdin is little less than a prodigy, and Virginia Corbin as Princess Badr-al-Budur renders an imitation of a lovelorn princess that is simply exquisite. In the words of one in the audience, "Who would ever believe that children could have such expressions at their command? They can teach the grown-ups a whole lot." H. S. N. "The Co-respondent" {Jewel Productions). — "The Co-respondent" is one of those rare things, a powerful story, simply told. It can be described only by one adjective, exquisite. It will bring back to you all the dreams and hopes and ambitions that you had when you were very, very young; and if you are still very young it will encourage you to go on struggling, for the struggle is worth while in the end. I should say that Elaine Hammerstein is one of our big coming stars. She is predestined to be not only popular, but also worthy of that popularity. As the little country girl she is refreshingly youthful. As the dauntless newspaper woman she is forceful. Altogether^ here are a photoplay and a star worthy serious consideration. What more can be said? H.S.N. "The Son of His Father" (Thomas InceParamount). — Here we have a star of the first water, a splendid supporting cast, fascinating scenery and settings expended on a photoplay that is composed of old plots, coincidence and vicious fights. Charles Ray, than whom there is no more innocent or boyish-looking juvenile in the business, is cast as the spendthrift son of a wealthy father. Of course he is bullied by dad and bets him he will make good the way his dad has, which marvel, of course, he does by going out West and beating dad at his own business. There are a girl, Vola Vale, and a Robert McKim, villain, which gives an opportunity for a fight, a very good fight, too, let it be remarked. considering the slenderness of young Ray. Now this cannot be judged as drama. It is merely interesting make-believe, just like you and I used to play in the big barn or attic when we got the chance. We like it because of Charles Ray's indefinable charm. It interests us, amuses us. At times it touches the farcical, as, for instance, when the Chinese cook enters the room after the fight and sees everything broken and topsy-turvy and says, "You all bo.en velly busy this morning," but there is no vital story here, no vital characterization, merely entertaining action by attractive performers. So how can it be judged as drama? H. S. N. "Arms and the Girl" (Paramount). — Billie Burke does very little in this film play to add to her screenic reputation. Perhaps this is not so much Miss Burke's fault as that of the direction and the weakness of the scenario in general. There were several improbabilities: for instance, when the enemy leave the village they accommodatingly abandon Thomas Meighan's car so that he and his bride may escape conveniently, and so far as we could When answering advertisements kindly mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE