Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1921)

%m UICKPICTUR MAGAZINE t) Contest Brings Deluge of Beauty (Continued from page 41) More than one photograph may be sent in. A coupon should be pasted to the back of each. We now take pleasure in presenting the winners who constitute the first honor roll for this magazine: Florine Findlay Debbart. of 333 Moore Street, Bristol, Va., a violet-eyed beauty with golden brown hair, deep coloring, and olive complexion. She has had experience in interpretative, toe, character and nation dancing in private theatricals. Aileen Douglass, of 1579 West 49th St., Los Angeles, Cal., who has the unusual combination of black hair, brown eyes, and a fair complexion. She has had no stage or screen experience. Lorraine Deleval, of San Gabriel, Cal., who has had dramatic training, and is a charming, petite brunette. Beulah Burnett, of 931 Main Street, Hamilton, Ohio, a brunette, who has had some dramatic experience, and whose picture has been shown on the screen of the Hamilton theaters. Loretta Pettigrew, of 568 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., a blonde, whose previous experience has been small parts on the screen. Florence Clinton Hulse, of 2028 P. St., N. W., Washington, D. C, whose previous experience has been in amateur comic opera. She is a fair brown-e3-ed, brown-haired maid of very apparent attraction. Tke Sunlit Mount (Continued from page 47) Carmel might be called The Girl Who Cried Herself Into Stardom, or something like that — tho we all admit she has remained because of her s.nile — for when she discovered she was to play a small role in "The Haunted Pajamas," she began to cry, tremblingly declaring she thought she was to play opposite the hero. So genuine was her grief and so charming was she in her weeping that she completely won her point and was given the leading role. i "I ' still cry when I want anything," laughed Carmel. "Stage life turns everything topsy-turvy," she went on telling of her stage flight. "The day is spent in sleeping, the night in working, with meals at queer hours, but, oh, the fascination of it all. "I had enough thrills to last me for a lifetime. The biggest one came on the opening night of 'The Magic Melody.' It happened that one of my songs, "Little Church Around the Corner,' was to become one of the big hits of the play and the first night's audiences encored it again and again. I was so happy, yet frightened, was afraid I would fall down or stumble or cry. I still feel the joy and rapture of it all. "My New York season was a revelation for me, I wouldn't have missed it for worlds. You must be at your best at every performance if you want to win, for subconsciously the audience catches your own spirit. You cant say, 'Please stop the camera, I've forgotten the action,' nor are there any retakes. You must win or lose at that very moment. It keeps you on your mettle and it builds to bigger things — guess that is what everything means anyway." Just at this point, Carl Laemmle, who was on one of his fleeting visits to Universal City, came thru the wide doorway headed (Continued on page 116) Can You Write a Photoplay? Neither could Martha Lordleast so she thought until — •at Martha Lord, a "novice," did not know that she could write a photoplay, but she desired to try. and so decided that she would. Six weeks later she sold her 'first play, "Hold Your Husband," to Selznick. Then came "A Gamble With Innocence," to the-1 same organization. Then, "The Inner Sight" to j Ince. Each one brought a handsome check. But, more than that^those "undreamed .of" successes began a brilliant new career for het. Can you do as well as she — will you, man or woman, make a simple test to try your fitness — free? Will You Make— This Home Test If We Send It Free ? THE Palmer Plan of Instruction in Photoplay Writing now introduces for the first time in the history of education by correspondence, a new new method of discovering in men and women who may least suspect it, the presence of CREATIVE IMAGINATION— that fundamental qualification which is the photoplaywrighfs "key to success." If you have it in you, you should develop it. If you lack it you should give up the idea of ever writing photoplays, for creative imagination is inborn and cannot be acquired. Our simple test comes to you in the form of a confidential questionnaire prepared especially for us by Professor Malcom Shaw MacLean, former instructor in short story writing at Northwestern University and University of Minnesota, in collaboration with H. H. Van Loan, America's most prolific photoplay writer, author of "The Virgin of Stamboul," "The Great Redeemer," etcetera. You simply send for it and try it in the privacy of your home and without expense. TO those who answer it successfully, will be offered an opportunity to obtain competent training in photoplay authorship through the Department of Education of the Palmer Photoplay Corporation. We will tell you frankly if you have or if you lack the essentials to success — for this institution serves the great producers who buy photoplays, as well as those who wish to learn the art of writing them : and, therefore, we must seek only those who are fitted for real achievement in this field. We are now beginning a search of the nation through this New-Method Test. And this is your opportunity to try that test — to learn if you are fitted for this profitable work. A new career awaits those who are so fitted and who will develop their inborn abilities by studying during spare time at home. Thousands of new stories for photoplays are needed for next year's production and the present writers cannot possibly supply this large number of scenarios. Your chance, therefore, if you succeed, is generously ample and insures an ever waiting market for your plays. # * * # WHEN your creative imagination is determined, the Palmer Plan is available to you. It then teaches you the technique of photoplay construction. "Technique" is the form of writing which producers insist upon in the scenario before they will even read the play. The Palmer Plan is Frederick Primer's method of instruction — a method conceived -and perfected by a man who, himself, wrote, sold and had produced fifty-two scenarios in one year. This course is of university calibre throughout and turns out fully equipped and finished writers. The Palmer Advisory Council — the men and women who direct the policies of this recognized institution — consists of Cecil B. DeMille, director general Famous Players-Lasky Corporation: Thos. H. Ince, head of Ince Studios; Lois Weber, foremost woman director, and Rob Wagner, widely known writer and film expert. The Palmer -Plan includes the largest photoplay sales bureau in the world,, through which students sell and producers buy their plays. The Plan has already developed many new writers and is developing new ones constantly. G. Le Roi Clarke, a former minister, sold his first play for $3000 before he had. completed the Palmer Plan, and he is but one Palmer student whose name has been but lately placed upon the screen. * * * * THESE are facts, and yet there are more to tell which we can disclose to you, however, only after you have sent for and completed the Palmer "New-Method" Test. Succeed in this preliminary test, the. most courageous test, of this kind ever adopted by an educational institution, and we will send you two intensely interesting books, "The Secret of Successful Photoplay Writing," which describes the Palmer course in detail, and "Proof Positive," containing the stories of successful students written by themselves. Remember, the new Palmer Confidential Questionnaire is not a "literary" test. Clever "style" and polished diction are of secondary import; nee in the writing of acceptable photoplays. Hardly a word of what you write appears upon the screen. Many have ability who do not know it. The tiling to do first is to learn if you have creative imagination. If you have _you should learn to write scenarios. The Palmer test will tell. Since it costs you but two cents to find out, it is certainly worth while to send this coupon. Send it now. I — | Palmer Photoplay Corporation,! ^-i^V ■ Department of Education, x^s^ } 2011 1. W. Hellman Bldg., ^""^ I Los Angeles, California. Please send me your New-Method Con | j fidential Questionnaire, which I am to fill j J out and, return to you for your perusal and . I subsequent advice to me without charge. If I I successful, I am to receive further infor I ■ mafion about. the. Palmer Plan without any ■ I obligation on my part to enroll for the I I course. 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