Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

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Standard Food A Fur Au'n 403A Broadway N^w Yo,k A New Way to Elope THE latest "iocation is a pony blimp, smallest in captivity, which took up the principals of a Christie comedy the other day. The girl was running away to be married followed by her irate objecting father — that s always the way — so there was nothing to do but grab a blimp. But what if there hadn t been one haodv ? Confessions of a Title Editor All he has to do is make over the picture — when the director gets through THEY referred to him as the Title Bird. When I heard it, I considered it a slang pleasantry. But when I experienced it — when I became a "title bird" — I understood the application, fully and painfully. For he flies high; he's always up in the air — except when he falls; and when he falls, he falls hard — into the mud! My prayers are for him — may Heaven help him! For he has — whoever he is; I make no exceptions — bitten off more of the old plug cut than he can chew. Only the other day a title editor characterized his state of being to me. "I never know whether to lautih, or cry," he complained. And that is his life, collectively and individually. I entered blithely upon the career of a title editor, innocently, unsuspectingly, like a babe approaching its first red-hot stove. The powers that arrange such things came to me with oily pleasantries, subtlest of flatteries and the most deceiving of countenances. They explained that this was an emergency, I little knowing that everything in the film K^nie is always an emergency, chronic and seemingly incurable. "Only for a week or so." they murmured, "imtil we get someone to do it regularly. We know you can do it. Can't you?" "\o." I replied, with my natural modcstv. Fine!" they exclaimed. "Start at once." I haven't given all of the convers;ition. To me, now, it is still too poicnant with memories of what followed — such as allnight sessions with directors and cutters and authors. Being an author myself, I ought to forgive the last, but I don't. While I was a title editor I grew to hate my professional brothers with all of the hate of one hundred and twenty pounds of bony substance and a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. They said to me. in effect, that I was fitted by nature, training and environment to write subtitles that would fairly jerk the audiences out of their scats and pull them down the aisles. I thought maybe so. they put it so convincingly. Hadn't I, in the early stages of my young life, been a newspaper reporter — a copy-reader — an editor? I said that I had. and that I w.-is blamed proud of it. I think that I went even so far as to say that I wouldn't trade my newspaper experience for a million dollars. I believed it — then. "Aha!" the powers gloated. "What a perfectly ideal title editor you will make!"' Beini; naturally modest. I was inclined to suspect so myself. And hadn't I been a mapazine editor; hadn't I written reams and reams of articles and stories? I had — swelling percctv tibly. Then — said they to me — I was cut out as a perfect sp<'cimen of what a title writer should be. However, the gist of the argument was that my traininc fitted me to phrase flickerinc thoughts, catch lines and (li.ilocuc snappily and jx-ppily anti forcefully. 1 was told that writing titles was much like writing new-paf>cr headlines. So 1 was (Continued on page jo^) Kmy (dmllHmml In I'llOTOI^LAY MAGAZINE U tu*r«ntr.d.