Motion Picture Story Magazine (Aug 1911-Jan 1912)

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Amazing Prices Paid For Moving Picture Plays You can add $50 to $75 to your income every week by turning your ideas into saleable photoplay plots. Manufacturers pay from $20 to $100 for original ideas which they can use. Popular plays of every year are written by beginners. YOU CAN WRITE THEM. . Our valuable book How to Write and Market Moving Picture Plays is a complete course in picture play writing. It teaches the rudiments of writing photoplay plots — ones that contain heartthrobs and hearty laughs. It teaches you how to pick and evolve worth-while plots; it tells how to construct the saleable scenario ; what the producer wants, and why; how to market the manuscript. We assist every purchaser of this book in disposing of his plays and offer $200 IN CASH PRIZES for the three best moving picture plays written according to the instructions and methods outlined in our book. $100 will be given for the best scenario; $60 for the next best; $40 for the third best. BY SECURING A COPY OF THIS BOOK AT ONCE YOU INCREASE YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR WINNING ONE OF THESE PRIZES. Price $1;50— mailed anywhere in the United States. Order today, send for complete particulars of our BIG NATIONAL PHOTOPLAY CONTEST. Photoplay Enterprise Association 100 Mill Street Boorwille, Indiana THESE SIX BOOKS Tell How $2.00 Grew Into $250,000.00; Youre for $4.50 The men who wrote these business books have built up the largest business of its kind in the world, and when they were doing it they were everlastingly applying very same principles that they have driven home ia the chapters of these books. And you are to get all the benefits of their years of experience for $4.50. Now, if these men built up a quarter of a million dollar business by knowing how to make every letter they sent out an order clincher and if they are willing to impart their methods, why can't you profit by their experience* Wouldn'ta little uoreof this letter-writing skillbe beneficial in^?£r,£.H!in£^™lk^^accomplish the verV Plans you have in view. #011 THIS BUSINESS MAN: it will open his eyes to the possibilities of more business. FOR THE ADVERTI81N (i MAN : it will increase the percentage of orders from the inquiries his advertising has brought. i *0H THE PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This work will be f constant reference. Send us a money order, P. O. order, or check for $4.50, with your name and address plainly written. We will send the five books immediately, prepaid. If you don't find them worth their weight in gold, send them back Publicity Pub. Co., Dept. 24, Page Bldg., Chicago, III. UNITED MOTOGRAPH THEATRES COMPANY Operates Moving Picture Theatres Throughout Greater New York CAPITAL STOCK $500,000. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. President: L. HAROLD COOKE, L. H. Cooke & Co., Financiers, New York City. Secretary and Treasurer: G. HADDINGTON COOKE, L. H. Cooke & Co., Financiers, New York City. General Manager: CHAS. G. CURRY, Former Manager Gaiety and Imperial Theatres, New York City. HANSELL HILLYER, National Reserve Bank, New York City. JULIAN TRIPPE, Trippe & Company, Members N. Y. Stock Exchange, New York City. E. J. PRICE, Price & Co., Bankers, Members Pittsburg Stock Exchange, New York City and Pittsburg. RALPH B. CORBY, National X-Ray Reflector Co., New York and Chicago. Investment in this company's stock will return handsome profits. Write for interesting booklet M. P. L. H. COOKE & COMPANY, 40 EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YORK UOEING a moving picture fan, I find your department of THE MIRROR indispen** sable, and I take this opportunity to congratulate THE MIRROR for its just criticisms of films." "I have joined the ranks of MIRROR readers and think it is the " best ever " and far ahead of any other paper of its kind. The first thing I do when I get it is to dive for the motion picture department." "I can hardly wait for the weekly issue to come out. I read it through twice to be sure I didn't miss anything. It is a dandy, you bet." 50 Cents Introductory Subscription Offer. Write Us! THE NEW YORK DRAMATIC MIRROR, 121 West 42d Street, NEW YORK CITY