Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1922)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 93 An American adaptation of the harem veil. Screen stars ivho wish to attend publie projections of their own pictures may wear this veil and pass unrecognized, and hear all the things the people say about Iheir work. Evidently compliments only come Helene Chadwick's way MISS DUPONT, who so realistically portrayed the foolish wife in von Strohi'im's alleged masterpiece, sprung a complete surprise the other day by getting herself a divorce from a young man in Chicago named Hannan. Nobody knew Miss Dupont had a husband, but after all, anyone may mislay a husband nowadays. In her complaint, the Universal star declared her matrimonial partner had failed to support her and had made life generally useless to her. That's why she came to California to go into pictures, via the mannequin route. WHAT a difference music makes. The finished orchestral accompaniment to Griffith's "Orphans of the Storm," at the Apollo Theater, off Broadway; and the haphazard score which attended the picture in its various suburban settings provided a contrast. Somehow the touching scenes didn't impress, or the ride-to-the-rescue thrill, nearly as much in New Jersey as they did in Manhattan. EDDIE SUTHERLAND, who enjoys the double distinction of being Tommie Meighan's nephew and the young man to whom May McAvoy is supposed to be engaged, lost all his clothes the other night when a sneak thief ransacked the bachelor lodge where he lives. The burglar got everything Eddie owned, down to his B. V. D.'s and pajamas. "I've often heard the phrase, 'Standing in your wardrobe'," said Eddie, ruefully gazing down at the rough golf suit he had on, "but I never knew before what it meant." THE story is being told of how Joseph Schildkraut missed his cues in the most important performance of his life. It was when his marriage to Elsie Bartlett Porter, of New York City, was being solemnized in City Hall in Philadelphia. Schildkraut stood on the wrong side of his bride, and later made the mistake of putting the ring on the wrong finger! MISS WINIFRED KIMBALL, who won first prize of $10,000 in the Chicago Daily News scenario contest— She trained her natural gifts by Palmer Plan $10,000 reward for a Palmer student's imagination rPHE first prize of $10,000 in the Chicago J Daily News scenario contest was awarded to Miss Winifred Kimball, of Apalachicola, Florida. It is the biggest prize ever offered for a scenario. The contest was open to everybody. Nearly 30,000 entered, many professional scenarists competing. Miss Kimball, an amateur heretofore unknown to the screen, wrote "Broken Chains," the scenario adjudged best. Miss Kimball is an enthusiastic student of the Palmer Course and Service. Of the Palmer Plan she writes: "There is something unique in the kindly interest that the Palmer institution evinces toward its students. I feel that much of my success is due to its practical instructions. I have advantaged greatly from the fundamental wisdom of its criticisms and teachings." A second prize of $1,000 was won by Mrs. Anna Mezquida, of San Francisco, also a Palmer student. Seven other students of the Palmer Plan won $500 prizes. Until the Palmer Photoplay Corporation discovered and developed their gifts in its nation-wide search for screen imagination, these prize winners were unknown to the motion picture industry. That search goes on and on. Through a questionnaire test which reveals creative imagination if it exists, more hidden talent will yet be uncovered. The test is offered free to you in this page. * * * This is the kind of story that needs little elaboration. The awards speak for themselves. The Chicago Daily News put its great influence and resources behind the motion picture industry, which desperately needs fresh imagination for scenarios. Thirty-one cash prizes amounting to $30,000 were offered. Thirty thousand professional and amateur writers competed. Their manuscripts were identified to the judges not by author's name, but by number. The judges — among whom were David Wark Griffith, the famous producer, Samuel Goldwyn, whose studios will produce the first prize scenario, Norma Talmadge and Charles Chaplin, screen stars, and Rupert Hughes, celebrated author and scenarist — selected " Broken C nains" as the best of the 30,000 scenarios entered. To a southern girl who lives in a little village of 3,000 population, that selection meant a check for $10,000, and a career. To the Palmer Photoplay Corporation, the incident is just one more gratify ng record of a Palmer student's brilliant success. A public that makes its own scenarios In its issue of April 1, announcing the prize winners, the Daily News quoted the judges as agreeing that — " — %< proves beyond all doubt Dial the American public can supply lis own art industry, 'the movie*,' with plenty of impressive plots drawn from real life." That is the message which the Palmer Photoplay Corporation emnhasizes in its nation-wide search for creative imagination. As the accredited agent of the motion picture industry for getting the stories without which production of motion pictures cannot go on, the Palmer organization seeks to enlist the country's Imagination for the fascinating and wellpaid profession of scenario writing. Here, in the inspiring story told on this page, is proof that Imagination exists in unexpected places; evidence that it can be inspired to produce, and trained in the screen technique, by the Palmer Home Course and Service in photoplay writing. A free test of your imagination Imagination is the indispensable gift of the scenarist. It exists in men and women who never suspect its presence. The problem of the motion picture industry is t:> discover it and train it to serve the screen. By a remarkable questionnaire, the Palmer Photoplay Corporation is enabled to test the imaginative faculties of any person who will send for it and answer its questions. The test is free The results of careful analysis by our Examining Board will be given you. We rliall be frank. If your questionnaire indicates that you do not possess the gifts required for screen writing, we shall advise you to think no more of writing for the screen. But if you have those gifts we shall accent you, should you so elect, for enrollment in the Palmer Course and Service. The opportunity is immense, the rewards arc limitless. Will you take this free confidential test in your own home, and determine whether it is worth your while to try for the big things — as Miss Kimball did? The questionnaire will be sent to you promptly nod without obligation, if you clip the coupon below. Do it now, before you forget. PALMER PHOTOPLAY Corporation ll.-Daitmoiit ot Muintlnn FT, 124 IVrnt 4lh St„ l.o> *nB.h«. Cut. PLEASE send me, without cost or obligation on my part, your questionnaire. I will answer the questions in it and return it to you for analysis If I pass the test, I am to receive further information about your Course and Service. Name. Indicate Mr., Mrs., or Mia Address . Copyright, 1923, Palmtr Photoplay Corporation you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.