Photoplay (May 1921)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 89 Studio Directory For the convenience of our readers who may desire the addresses of film companies we give the principal active ones below. The first is the business office; (s) indicates a studio; in some cases both are at one address. ASSOCIATED PRODUCERS, INC.. 729 Seventh Ave., N. Y. (s) Maurice Tourneur, Universal City, Cal. (s) Thos. H. Incc. Culver City, Cal. J. Parker Read, Jr., Ince Studios, Culver City, CaJ. (s) Mack Sennett, Edendale, Cal. (s) Marshall Neilan, Hollywood Studios, 6642 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Cal. (s) Allan Dwan, Hollywood Studios, 6642 Santa Monica Blvd.. Hollywood, Cal. (s) Geo. Loane Tucker. Brunton Studios, Hollywood. Cal. King Vidor Production. 7200 Santa Monica Blvd.. HoUy^vood. Cal. BLACKTON PRODUCTIONS. INC.. 25 West 45th St., New York; (s) 423 Classon Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. ROBERT BRUNTON STUDIOS. 5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood. Cal. CHRISTIE FILM CORP., 6101 Sunset Blvd.. Hollywood, Cal. FIRST NATIONAL EXHIBITORS' CIRCUIT, INC., 6 West 48th St., New York; Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven, Prod., 1420 La Brea Ave., Hollywood. Cal. Mildred Harris Co. and Anita Stewart Co., 3800 Mission Boul.. Glendale. Calif. Holubar Productions. 6642 Santa Monica Blvd.. Hollywood. Cal. Louis B. Mayer Studio. Norma and Constance Talraadge Studio, 318 East 48th St., New York. Katherine MacDonald Productions, Georgia and Girard Sts., Los Angeles, Cal. (s) Chas. Ray, 1428 Fleming St., Los .\ngeles. FOX FILM CORP., 10th Ave. and S5th St.. New York; 1401 Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. CARSON STUDIOS. INC.. 1845 Alessandro St., Edendale, Cal. GOLDWYN FILM CORP., 469 Fifth Ave., New York; (s) Culver City, Cal. HAMPTON. JESSE B.. STUDIOS. 1425 Fleming St.. Hollvwood. Cal. (s) HART. WM. S. PRODUCTIONS, 1215 Bates St., Hollywood. Cal. HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS. 6642 Santa Monica Blvd.. Hollywood, Cal. INTERNATIONAL FILMS, INC., (s) Second Ave. and 127th St., N. Y. METRO PICTURES CORP., 1476 Broadway, New York; (s) 3 West 61st St., New York, and 1025 Lillian Way, Hollywood, Cal. PARAMOUNT ARTCRAFT CORPORATION, 485 Fifth .-^ve.. New York. Famous Players Studio, Pierce Ave. and 6th St.. Long Island City, N. Y. Lasky Studio, Hollywood, Cal. PATHE EXCHANGE. Pathe Bldg., 35 W. 45th St., New York, (s) REALART PICTURES CORPORATION, 469 Fifth Ave., New York; (s) 211 North Occidental Blvd., Los Angeles. Cal. ROBERTSON-COLE PRODUCTIONS. 723 Seventh Ave.. New York; Currier Bldg., Los Angeles; (s) corner Gower and Melrose Sts., Hollywood, Cal. ROTHACKER FILM MFG. CO.. 1339 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, 111. SELZNICK PICTURES CORP., 729 Seventh Ave., New York; (s) 807 East 175th St., New York, and West Fort Lee, N. J. UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, 729 Seventh Ave., New York. Mary Pickford Co., Brunton Studios, Hollywood. Cal.; Douglns Fairbanks Studios. Hollywood, Cal.; Charles Chaplin Studios. 1416 LaBrea Ave.; Hollywood, Cal. D. W. Griffith Studios, Orienta Point. Mamaroneck, N. Y. UNIVERSAL FILM MFG. CO.. 1600 Broadway. New York; (s) Universal City. Cal. VITAGRAPH COMPANY OF AMERICA. 1600 Broadway, New York; (s) East 15th St. and Locust Ave.. Brooklyn. N. Y., and Hollywood. Cal. Millions of People Can Write Stories and Photoplays and Dorit Know It/ THIS is the startling assertion ri-contiy made by E. B. Davison, of New York, one of the highest paid writers in the world. Is his astonishing statement true? Can it be possible there are countless thousands of people yearning to write, who really can and simply haven't found it out? Well, come to think of it, most anybody can tell a story. Why can't most anybody mile a story? Why is writing supposed to be a rare gift that few possess? Isn't this only another of the Mistaken Ideas the past has handed down to us? Yesterday nobody dreamed man could fly. Today he dives like a swallow ten thousand feet above the earth and laughs down at the tiny mortal atoms of his fellowmen below! So Yesterday's "impossibility" is a reality today. "The time will come," writes the same authority, "when millions of people will be writers — there will be countless thousands of playwrights, novelists, scenario, magazine and newspaper writers — they are coming, coming — a whole new world of tliem!" And do you know what these writers-to-be are doing now? Why, they are the men — armies of them — young and old, now doing mere clerical work, in offices, keeping books, selling merchandise, or even driving trucks, running elevators, street cars, waiting on tables, working at barber chairs, following the plow, or teaching schools in the rural districts, and women, young and old, by scores, now pounding typewriters, or standing behind counters, or running spindles in factories, bending over sewing machines, or doing housework. 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