Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

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90 Photoplay Magazine Descending, left to right. Louise Glaum. Wm. S. Hart, Bessie Barriscale, J. Barney Sherry. that lias come to stay, and which will be the representative American expression — and because [nee is one of its biggest. mo>t resultful masters, and certainly the most prolific. His guns don't salute once a year. He is volley-firing every day! Now get these points: Vow: manuscript must be typewritten, on one side of the paper only. If it's not typewritten, it won't even be considered. If you wish it returned, if unavailable, enclose sufficient postage when it make-; itinitial trip. Don't try to get a correspondence cour-e of lessons in scenario form before sending in your story. Remember the caption : $i .000 for an Idea! Put the big idea into the best scenario form you know — just tell it as best you can — and if yours is the best story, you will win. Always tell a story. remembering that it is story, unfailingly. which makes play or novel. Fine writing and ornamentation are to the elements of plot and character building only what foliage is to a tree. Anyone may enter this contest except persons associated in any way with Photoplay Magazine or Thomas H. Ince's enterprises. Such are barred. Next month, about the judging, and other information. In every American ton 11 and city the faces and the names of these actors appear so constantly that to all America they seem neighbors and friends. Yet they have exhausted a stock of stories which might serve as the foundation of a library. They must have ncu. virile and timely material or pass out of the picture. Will you help them get it? ~