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Ink in Their Veins
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after about five years, and began to do the scenarios for Douglas Fairbanks. Now she writes most of his scripts and all of his subtitles, for which she has shown a diabolical ingenuity. Some of her Fairbanks pictures are "His Picture in the Papers," "American Aristocracy," "The Americano," and "In Again, Out Again." She says:
"After six years oi ceaseless endeavor I can truthfully say that I am the only scenario writer in the world that weighs eighty pounds." She weighs more on pay day.
Clarence J. Harris, feature writer for the Fox Film Corporation, is an ordained clergyman of two liberal denominations. Following an active interest in moving pictures, he began to write, and during the past three years has written and placed four hundred
reels o-f photo dramas covering all lines of thought. Mr. Harris wrote the first dramas in which Alice Brady, Mary Nash, Lenore Ullrich, Fania MarinofT, and Mary Miles Minter played.
Another newspaper man is C. Gardner Sullivan, who was born in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1886, and graduated from the University of Minnesota. After knocking about the country, he landed finally in New York, and got a job on the Journal. He sold his first scenario to Edison. Then Ince bought a few, and Sullivan decided that he had had enough of the Journal. They parted by mutual consent. Now he works for Ince, and receives six hundred and fifty dollars a week and a percentage of the profits. Pity the downtrodden scenario writer !
Monte M. Katterjohn also works for Ince. He was born in Boomville. Indiana, twenty-five years ago, and
The Balboa scenario staff. From left to right, back row: Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, Mrs. L. V. Waters, Dan F. Whiteomb. Front row: Lela Leibrand, Frances Guihan, Will M. Ritchie, Sylvia Gibson-Go wland, and Douglas Bronston.