Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1919)

WiMS0* Stories Told on the Story-Tellers (Continued from page 50) photoplay world may prepare itself for a sensation. R. Cecil Smith, who writes original stories and continuity for Thomas H. Ince photoplays, confided to a studio friend that he believes he has a just claim for damages somewhere between Ellis Parker Butler, author of "Pigs Is Pigs," and Hoover, the apostle of food conservation. When the "waste nothing" propaganda was started Mr. Smith conceived the idea that the best medium for conservation would be a pig. So he bought a porker, yet young in life, and proceeded to build up what he thought would be a fortune. But when he took potato peelings to the pen the swine only grunted and turned up its nose. So Smith cooked the peelings, with but little better result. Then he decided to serve them on a dish garnished with lettuce leaves, and they were greedily eaten. "You know," confided Smith, "I have been playing French chef to that pig ever since. I thought it was my patriotic duty, but I never saw an animal with such an appetite and such fastidious tastes. _ It has eaten into my savings account, into my insurance money and has nibbled one payment off my Liberty BoncL If the blamed thing dies before I get it to market I face financial ruin." Julian Josephson, who has written several of the recent Charles Ray stories, the latest being "Greased Lightning," ran a general store in a small Oregon town before he made moving picture work a profession. He always had a mania for fiction, however, and acquired the habit while behind the counter of writing on wrapping paper, bags or whatever was handy at the moment .of inspiration. This habit has clung to him, it has been discovered. The writer came to the studio recently very much down in the mouth and confided to friends that after days of study a scene suddenly came to him just the way he wanted it. He jotted down the notes, but immediately his attention was attracted to something else. The idea slipped from his mind and he had lost the piece of paper. While yet in his perplexity Thomas H. Ince arrived at the studio and hurried up to the writer. "Here's a good idea for that story you are working on," he said, handing Josephson a small piece of paper. The writer recognized his own handwriting and asked: "Where did you get this?" "It was on a paper bag. The maid at my home brought it in from the kitchen because she thought from the scraggly writing it was a Black Hand message." So it came to be known that the producer and the writer patronize the same grocery store and Josephson's notation carelessly left on a bag at the counter was sent with oranges to the home of his superior. THOSE EDUCATIONAL FILMS AGAIN "I hear they are making some brand new kind of pictures, with Charles Hairbanks starring." "Righto. They're taking X-ray movies of his brain." "Ah ! 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