Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

26 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS sees pair mad. He gets a revolver exit to them pointed gun wife exited police sees it enters dodges revovlver he exit pair ahead Collins also to pol.ce station chief pardons Mr and Mrs Collins police exit with Dalian to lokup. Husband ex.t wife after. On pavement she enters husband demands forgiveness he refuse how ever to go home together year later wife in bed baby in crib. Husband in hotell drunk makes racket gets put out next morn wife making breakfast husband enter wants money wife refuses he strikes her over she exits he thinks over it also exit after wife lying under a tree road side he wants to make up she refuses but gets her home. That eve they go to hotell husband at bar orders a drink for wife waiter exit with drink to parlor Wm Dalian also at bar sees waiter going he sneaks after. Husband sees Dalian but waits waiter serves exit. Dalian enters wife make love she on his lap waiter enters tells to quit huggin husband enters grabs Dalian and kicks him out. He tells w.fe to exit she refuses but goes at last. Wife in bed baby in crib. Husband enters at bed, looks at her sorry looking he enters bed rums away. Wife exit bed looks cross she lays on floor. Soon husband turns. Sees wife on floor. She gone he sits up looks for her he exit bed he finds her on floor he takes her in bed. Wife awake sits up husband demands her love for him she refuses shakes herself lays down. He looks sorry enters bed. Next morn. S tting room Mr. Coll'ns sits very sick. Medecine before him. Wife enters with waiter he drinks he watches her with his eyes she pats him on head she sits in his lap he fells better she kisseshim that day they go to store with bady enter baby cloth dept. They buy the finest coatMr Collins fits baby. Back turned to wife in distance enter Mr Dalian stops he winks at Mrs Collins sees him she throws many kisses to DallanDallan exits backward cannot part at last he exit wife watches. Mr Collins done. They exit wife last. Sorry. Sorry fulllooking deep thinking. THE HALL OF FAME Roy McCardle, the humorist, wrote the first moving picture plot about fourteen years ago. Editor C. B. Hoadley, Universal staff, is now collaborating with Captain Peacock on some fine stories, after enjoying a well-earned vacation in Connecticut. George Hall, well-known author, has gone over to England to write stories for Director Herbert Brenon. Horace Vinton, well-known script editor and author, is in Texas this winter as director for a prominent feature film company. Harvey Gates, late of the Dramatic Mirror, and a versatile chap, has become an associate editor of the Universal Weekly. Harold Hoadley, youngest son of "Pop" Hoadley, and a chip off the old block, is making good as a script writer. He comes by the writing germ honestly and just cannot help it. Jack Byrne, as clever a writer as he is a director, has joined Warner's Features and will go south to write and direct his own pictures. Walter MacNamara, one of the standbys in the Imp studio, is the latest entrant among photoplaywrights to turn out librettos. He is also going to take the stump for Mitchel, New York candidate for mayor. Truly, we are becoming a versatile bunch! The thousands of admirers of Giles R. Warren, author and director, will be interested to know that he is turning out some exceptionally good "Juno" features for the Whitman-Warren Film Co. The first release will be awaited with interest. George Tucker is just another case of a script man making good as a director. He is being assisted by Walter MacNamara. George L. is visualizing some wonderful pictures at present and his many friends are glad. A Word to Miss Jessie Kinerock Miss Jessie Kinerock — never mind her address — asks if it is strictly essential to one ambitious to become a motion picture actress to "graduate from a course." She believes that if "graduation" is not essential for success that she will journey to New York City and engage in the "lucrative profession." Jessie says she understands that the work is "easy and attractive." Jessie, remain with your mother. The great big city of New York is no place for a friendless girl. In your town you probably have a sweetheart, and we will bet something that he doesn't wish you to become an actress. The advertisements you read in some publications, Jessie, about "colleges for motion picture actresses" are fraudulent. First, the art cannot be successfully taught by the correspondence route, and secondly, the supply of motion picture actresses and actors far exceeds the demand. There are many capable actors and actresses, having years of dearly bought experience, now on the waiting lists of the various motion picture studios. Do you think there is an opportunity there for an inexperienced girl ? When you read those misleading advertisements, do not be deceived. Take our word for it, Jessie, there is nothing they can teach you— we know. Continue to enjoy the work of your favorite motion picture actors in the "Idle Hour" at home. You would probably break your mother's heart were you to steal away to New York as your letter intimates you might do. And, Jessie — your own heart would, maybe, be broken before you returned home. From "Pop" Hoadley "Pop" Hoadley, friend to the script writer, stops work on a two-reel Christmas feature he is rounding into shape long enough to say something of interest to you: "The crying need just now with Universal is for animal stuff in which an elephant, tigers, lions, camels, snakes, a chimpanzee, and other varmints can be featured. The lions and tigers are comparatively wild, but the elephant and the 'monk' are well trained. The company is going to film a series of pirates and sea stories. Scripts dealing with political intrigue will be considered — big, gripping themes with plenty of action-melodramas preferred— that are up-to-date with a metropolitan atmosphere. We are in the market for stories of the Jews and Russians, but the stories must ring true and the writer must thoroughly understand his subject. The two-reel story to be considered by us must have several 'wallops,' not a single-reel plot padded. I would advise the novice to stick to the short story that can be told in 1,000 feet. The most of the extra reel scenarios are written by men on the staff. King Baggott, home from England, will surely work in two and three-reel pictures. George Tucker may direct, and stories for a strong male lead will be in demand. Stories for Florence Lawrence will be considered. They must be written for a woman lead, of course. She will appear in only multiple reel pictures, and the stories must be strong ones. Harry Solter, who is directing her productions, likes society dramas with a strong and unique plot with the bulk of the work cut out for his star. He is a fine judge of a story and difficult to please. Stories must be exceptionally good for him." Remember that in submitting plots for Universal stars that exceptionally good work is essential, just as it is for any of the other first-class concerns. Universal is paying satisfactory prices for acceptable scripts, and we can assure writers that they will receive courteous and prompt treatment. Troulile for Eugene B. Eugene Berry Watt, operating "The National Authors' Institute," in a small office in the Gaiety Theatre Building, this city, is the first of hit, kind to be reached by the postoffice authorities. This is a good work merely begun. The postal secret service men say that Watt and his associates have obtained about twenty thousand dollars in a couple of years through their system of treating would-be playwrights. The "Institute" has advertised extensively in magazines and newspapers (not the Motion Picture News) soliciting the submission of manuscripts and promising immediate fame and fortune to all "clients." Fees, ranging from $2 to $20, have been required from the ambitious and inexperienced writers who have "fallen" for the game. The complainant im the specific case in which Watt has been arrested is a cook in Paterson, N. J. She has been paying a large part of her small savings to have the "Institute" place her "dramas." Watt was arrested and convicted in 1908 on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. On account of his youth he was paroled from the Federal prison at Atlanta. One week after his release he is said to have opened the "National Authors' Institute." Here is Watt's ad: WRITE AND SELL Motion Picture Plays Send at Once for a Free Copy of Our Book on "MOVING PICTURE PLAYWRITING" It explains the only right way for you to enter this fascinating and profitable profession. Tells how you can quickly, and at almost no expense, learn to write and SELL Photoplays ■ — how people without experience or marked literary abilitv are writing and sell'ng plots— how the NATIONAL AUTHORS' INSTITUTE is selling plays for people who "never before wrote a line for publication" — explains how and why we can sell YOUR plots and help YOU EARN $50 OR MORE WEEKLY We conduct a SALES' DEPARTMENT for the purpose of marketing Photoplays. Nearly all the big producers are located in or near N. Y. City and we have a tremendous advantage over agencies situated elsewhere. If you can read, write and THINK, you need only technical knowledge to succeed in this profitable work. The film manufacturers want more good plots — want them every week in the year — they MUST have them — and we'll gladly sh w you the technical secrets. Send Now— This Minute for a Complimentary Copy of Oar Illustrated Copy NATIONAL AUTHORS' INSTITUTE 209 Gaiety Theatre Building, New York