Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1917)

WANTED! Send us your Ideas for Photoplays Stories. Etc.! They may bring you BIG MONEY ■ Rowland Thomas an "unknown writer,' received $5,000 for one story; Elaine Sterne, another beginner, received SI. 000 for a single play! You Have Ideas If you go to the movies if you read magazinesthen you know the kind of material editors want Special education is NOT REQUIRED. Writing is open to ALL CLASSES. "The best reading matter is as frequently obtained from absolutely new writers as it is from famous writers. ' says a prominent editor. EVERY life has its story Your Ideas Taken in Any Form We will accept your ideas in ANY form— either a? finished scripts or as mere outlines of plots. Send us your Bare Ideas, Outlines, Plots. Synopses or Finished Stories. Your Ideas Corrected Free If your work shows merit— but needs correction -we will completely REVISE and TYPEWRITE it FREE OF CHARGE ! Then promptly submit to the Leading Film and Faction Editors All scripts are sold on commission. 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It makes not a particle of difference how long you have been using tobacco, how much you use or in what form you use it— whether you smoke cigars, cigarettes, pipe, chew plug or fine cut or use snuff. Tobacco Redeemer will positively banish every trace of desire in from 48 to 72 hours. This we absolutely guarantee in every case or money refunded. Write today for our free booklet showing the deadly effect of tobacco upon the human system and positive proof that Tobacco Redeemer will quickly free you of the habit. N/ewell Pharmacal Company, Dept. 371 St. Louis, Mo* i I I (The Picture Oracle — Continued.) Cunard was born in France. Yes, they have quite a few stout comediennes with several of the comedy companies. Believe me. they need all the flesh they have to stand the bumpings they receive while they are making laughs for the film fans. Fannie Ward is forty-two years of youthfulness. Florence LaBadie. of the Thanhouser Company, was born in Canada in the year 1804, but she is a good little American just the same. A. Baer.— So you were nearly inveigled into marrying once? Now. I don't believe married life is as bad as you think. I know lots of married people, and some of them get along very nicely indeed. "Glory" was the title of the picture that Alan Forrest played in with the famous comedians Kolb and Dill. Juanita Hansen played opposite him in this feature. He is now working at the American studios, in Santa Barbara. California. A letter to that address will surely reach him. Yes, he is a very popular little fellow, and I like his work immensely. Quite a fashion plate, too, don't you think? He spends three-quarters of his time and the same amount of his salary at his tailors, which amounts to a very big item indeed. Who is De Wolf Hopper? Do you mean to tell me that you never heard of the gentleman ? That is really funny. I thought that every one had heard about De Wrolf Hopper and Nat Goodwin. Hopper did several features for the Triangle Company, but has returned to the stage. He was very famous on the stage before he ever thought of going in for the silent drama. He is the man that made the poem "Casey a: the Bat" famous. He played in a picturization of this poem for the 1 riangle-Fine Arts, and it was quite funny and also a wee bit sad. No, I never heard of that Ned gentleman you mentioned. All the companies are in the market for good stories. Billie Burke is just thirty years old. What does the Winner Company produce — comedies ? No, I can't find any rules that you have broken. It is quite a novelty, too. A new reader nine times out of ten breaks about fifteen of the sacred rules in his first letter. However, I am glad to see that you are the tenth, and not one of the other nine rule breakers. More power to you. Jerry. — i am sorry, little one, but every question you ask, with the exception of two, is against the rules. Francis X. Bushman, the Metro athlete, was born at Norfolk, Virginia, on January 10, 1885. J. Warren Kerrigan first saw the light of day in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 25, four years after Francis X. Bushman arrived on this earth. See if you can't get your next letter written with all your questions within the bounds of the rules, so that I can answer them. Walthall's Admirer 20. — Yes, I witnessed the "Truant Soul." "Little Shoes" and "Burning the Candle" followed the "Truant Soul" release. Montague Love is still playing in features for