Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

24 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS not the object of this course to implant talent, and its teacher positively will not lead any pupil to suppose the presence of talent when it is obviously absent. It does successfully develop, guide and instruct the gifted mind. What can be learned can be taught. The average teacher of pictureplay writing by correspondence is satisfied so long as the pupil enrolls, pays his tuition fee regularly and completes his course. What becomes of him afterward is a matter of no importance to his late guide, counselor and friend. It is my aim and intention to prove to Messrs. McCloskey, Sargent, Wright, Woods and every other honest, fair-minded editor or critic that at least one correspondence school can 'deliver the. goods.'" It has not been so much the school idea in itself that we have been fighting as the grafting ignoramuses who, by misleading advertising and carboned lesson sheets of unvarying form, have separated the unfortunate writer from his hard-earned money. We have never yet scored a school until we had an opportunity to look over the "courses of lessons." With the exception of the Home Correspondence School course, we have found little in any of the others worth the money asked. Many of them contain drivel that must be unlearned by painful experience before the "graduate" can hope to market his product. We can honorably recommend the Home Correspondence School course to those who feel they must take this sort of schooling. The advertising campaign of this Home Correspondence School course is conservative Kinematograph Weekly The Leading Motion Picture Publication of Great Britain and Colonies Sample Copies 10 cents For Advertising Rates Write ASSOCIATED IMING PICTURE PRESS 2S0A Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. THE FIRST IN THE FIELD ASSOCIATED MOVING PICTURE PRESS moving Picture fldvertising Placed In All Publications 250 A KINGSTON AVE., BROOKLYN, N. Y. and consistent. Professor Esenwein's course of short story writing is standard. In fact, the character of the instructors, the material furnished students, and the general backing and atmosphere in connection with this course appeal to us. We can recommend the instruction and we are saying a great deal when we commend any school. Director Allen Curtis, of the Universal, is producing a series of "Jake and Mike" pictures, with Max Asher as Jake and Harry McCoy as Mike. They are to be released under the "Joker" brand, and are bound to find favor. They are broadly burlesque and in a class of their own. Jake and Mike are at present acting in "To the Rescue," in which photoplay they set to work to get a girl from a life-saver, and after many adventures are shown up as they deserve to be. The play is by Harry Wulze. Mystery of the Silver Skull Vitagraph Two-Reel Feature (Oct. 4) The plot of this story is new, contrary to the sage advice of philosophers that there is nothing new under the sun. In motion pictures that saying is daily getting more and more believable, and it is therefore a relief to see something that is possessed of one feature that has not already been worked to death. Billy Steele comes to New York to dispose of some of his property in South America. While completing the arrangements with Lawlor, a dyed-in-the-wool crook, he discovers a woman at the latter's safe. She begs for her liberty and he, seeing that there is something more in her than a mere thief, lets her go. As they turn to leave the room he discovers a small silver skull on the floor and takes it home to his yacht. O'Keefe, the mate, is a man of a secret past, whom Billy had never understood. Billy finds the address of Josephine, the mysterious thief, and calls on her, when he hears that she is to wed Lawlor, the man he caught her trying to rob. She receives him, and at his institution tells a part of her story sufficient for Billy to appreciate that she needs his help. Her father has been unjustly accused of killing a man years before while in a poker game with Lawlor, and in order to keep Lawlor silent he has to give in to his demands. Thus the engagement of Josephine to Lawlor. In the meantime O'Keefe has turned up at the house at a critical moment, having found the silver -skull, and accuses Lawlor of the murder. It then comes out that the skull had played a prominent part in the murder, having been worn by the murderer, and when the mate saw it aboard the yacht, he gives out the truth, after having kept silent for many years, being paid by Lawlor to do so. Josephine and Billy are married and go to South America on their honeymoon. SCENE FROM "THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK" 4-reel Feature film — taken on the exact spot made memorable by Ireland's apostle and enacted by Irish peasants in ancient historical costumes.