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shabby clothes, feels despairingly in his empty pockets. He has no money—but he must go home. He goes to the station and slips into a box car. He reaches home and quietly enters the house without being seen or heard. The lonely father and mother are standing at the table saying grace over the Thanksgiving dinner. There is a third place for the absent boy, and the wanderer ap- proaches and stands with bowed head. When grace is finished, the father and mother look up to fmd their prayers answered—their boy is home again and their Thanksgiv- ing Day is made joyful. You can see how simple, how everyday a story the above is, yet each time that I have seen it, the spectators ap- plauded heartily. It is the human interest, the heart throb in it, that causes it to register. Now, in everyone's life, there is at least one good story. In every little village, there is a score of romances and comedies. If one of them is not sufficient to fill out a photoplay of the desired length (from fifteen to twenty minutes), take incidents from several and weave them to- gether. If the incidents are humorous, so much the better. Every producer is anxious to get hold of humorous plays. There is a great scarcity of them. The sort of humor want- ed is not the rough variety—not an attempt to make people laugh at cruel jokes nor at accidents that mean injury to someone, nor at mere foolishness. The incidents must be of humorous situations that are innocently funny. Another encouraging point in connection with photo- play writing is that practically everything is possible in photography. Scenes that could not be presented on a dramatic stage are worked out by the moving picture actors and the camera men. People can fall down cliffs; they can be apparently blown up in an explosion; they can be shown struggling for breath in a fire-swept mine—so, if you have a tale of extraordinary happenings to relate, don't hesitate for fear that it cannot be produced.