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TO SAVE YOUR ENERGY, TIME, AND POSTAGE Do not send scenarios dealing with foreign subjects to American companies. Do not send cowboy and western plays to New York companies, unless you know that they have western com- panies doing field work. Do not send plays with a Chicago setting to New York companies, and vice versa. Do not send plays with children dominating the scenes to companies that use children but seldom and in only minor parts. Learn through the films at the theatres which companies favor children. Do not send promiscuously scenarios requiring work of trained animals. The Selig Polyscope Co. is the only one I know of at present that maintains a menagerie. Do not write plays containing acts of violence or crimes. All photoplays have to be passed upon by the National Board of Censors, and the censorship is very strict. If a crime is committed, as an incident in the play, the method of its commission may not be shown in the picture, but the perpetrators must be caught and punished. If the play deals with a minor offense, the culprit or culprits must be shown repentant. Kidnapping must not be shown. Also, there must be nothing in a photoplay to offend good taste or morals, nothing to offend the various religious creeds and nationalities. There is no reason for such plays anyway—there are so many phases of life strong in human interest from which we can draw our plots. Do not submit scenarios that are founded on copy- right plays or stories. The penalty for the infringement of a copyright is severe. If you draw your inspiration from a play or a story that is not copyrighted, state the source under the title of your scenario. 26