The Photodramatist (May 1922-Feb 1923)

Research Expert is Added to Staff of Photodramatist Service Bureau ALTHOUGH announcement of Photodramatist' s new Service Bureau for writers was made but thirty days ago, already hundreds of our readers have taken advantage of this opportunity to obtain authoritative information regarding their problems. Inquiries have been received both by mail and by telegram and have been promptly answered. The editors of Photodramatist naturally assumed that this service, different from that given by any other writers' publication in the world, would prove to be popular, but anticipated no such avalanche of inquiries. However, they are far from being dismayed. Indeed, despite the fact that it has added to the labors of the staff, they are well pleased, inasmuch as it proves that readers of Photodramatist are vitally interested in the magazine and in the assistance it gives to its subscribers. No inquiry, however inconsequential, has been neglected, and the editors sincerely trust that those who have written to the Service Bureau have been satisfied with the efforts taken to give them information that may be of value in their work. Many of our correspondents, however, have wasted time and stamps in asking questions impossible of reply. Fully one-fourth of the letters received have contained the following question : "I have just finished a story. Where can I sell it?" Obviously this is a query no one could answer without more definite information. Were one to insert an advertisement in a daily paper, "House for Sale," one certainly could not expect to obtain advice as to its sale without furnishing information as to the size and architectural design of the house as well as its location. Similarly, in asking the Serv'ce Bureau for information regarding markets for your photoplays, do not expect to receive authentic reply unless you have given us brief details regarding the theme, characterization and general nature of your work. No two companies have the same requirements and the editors of the Service Bureau cannot undertake to offer marketing advice without proper information. CJINCE the inauguration of the Service Bureau, ^ Photodramatist has discovered that there is a popular demand for technical information aside from that pertaining to marketing problems. Accordingly, we desire to announce that, beginning with this issue, G. Harrison Wiley, former Research Director for the Metro studios and one of the best-informed technical men in motion pictures, has been added to the staff. Mr. Wiley will be glad to answer any questions that have to deal with the technical phase of motion picture production. If you are in doubt as to whether a certain effect may be achieved in your latest photoplay, whether the cost of some particular scene would be prohibitive, or whether you have placed your characters in predicaments that would be physically impossible of solution, write to Mr. Wiley in care of Photodramatist. He will answer you by return mail. Oftimes situations seemingly impossible may be filmed by trick photography, or the great expense of travel32 ling on the part of a company may be eliminated by the construction of miniatures, the use of transparcies, etc. If this is the case, Mr. Wiley, as our research expert, will so inform you. On the other hand, if you have offered a problem in your play that cannot be solved by the "modern magicians" of filmland, Mr. Wiley may save you the disappointment of rejection by pointing out the facts in the case before you have submitted your manuscript. It must be remembered that all inquiries to the Service Bureau should be accompanied by stamped, selfaddressed envelopes ; and in case of telegraphed inquiries, that reply by us will be made at your expense. Fiction Markets HP HE following list of fiction markets includes only ■*■ imagazines that pay for fiction upon acceptance at a rate of one cent per word, or better. Magazines which ordinarily pay over two cents are marked with an asterisk. A double asterisk indicates those paying highest rates. There are, of course, other technical and class magazines which also deal fairly with writers, but which do not consider original, creative work. In submitting work to these markets, writers should enclose stamped, self-addressed envelopes, to insure the return of their manuscripts. Ace-High — 799 Broadway, New York. Action Stories — 41 Union Square, New York. Adventure — Spring & Macdougal Sts., New York. ♦Ainslee's Magazine — 79 Seventh Ave., New York. ♦American Magazine — 381 Fourth Ave., New York. Argosy All-Story Magazine — 280 Broadway, New York. Asia — 627 Lexington Ave., New York. ♦Atlantic Month'y — 8 Arlington St., Boston. Black Mask— 25 W. 45th St., New York. Blue Book — 36 S. State St., Chicago. Bookman— 244 Madison Ave., New York. Breezy Stories — 377 Fourth Ave., New York. Brief Stories— 805 Drexel Bldg., Philadelphia. ♦Century Magazine — 353 Fourth Ave., New York. ♦Collier's Weekly— 416 W. 13th St., New York. ♦♦Cosmopolitan Magazine — 119 W. 40th St., New York. Country Gentlemen — Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia. Country Life — Garden City, L. I., N. Y. ♦Delineator — Spring & Macdougal Sts., New York. ♦Designer — 12 Vandam St., New York. Detective Stories Magazine— 79 Seventh Ave., N. Y. ♦Dial, The— 152 W. 13th St., New York. ♦Elks Magazine, The— 50 E. 42nd St., New York ♦♦Everybody's — Spring & Macdougal Sts., New York. Farm and Fireside — 381 Fourth Ave., New York. ♦♦Good Housekeeping— 119 W. 40th St., New York. ♦Harper's Bazaar— 119 W. 40th St., New York. ♦Harper's Monthly — Franklin Square, New York. ♦♦Hearst's Magazine — 119 W. 40th St., New York. Holland's Magazine — Dallas, Texas. ♦♦Ladies' Home Journal — Philadelphia. ♦Life — 598 Madison Ave., New York. Live Stories— 9 E. 40th St., New York. Love Story Magazine — 79 Seventh Ave., New York. ♦McCall's Magazine— 236 W. 37th St., New York. ♦McClure's— 80 Lafayette St., New York. ♦Metropolitan Magazine — 432 Fourth Ave., New York. McLean's Magazine — 143 University Ave., Toronto, Ont. ♦Modern Priscilla — 85 Broad St., Boston. ♦Munsey — 280 Broadway, New Yo~k. National Pictorial Monthly— 119 W. 40th St., New York.