Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

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 $1,000 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 as 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 meritbut needs correction —we will completely REVISE and TYPEWRITE it FREE OF CHARGE ! Then promptly submit to the Leading Film and Fiction Editors. All scripts are sold on commission. No charge is made for SELLING, except a small commission, deducted AFTER a sale is made. This is YOUR OPPORTUNITY. So get busy! Send your manuscripts AT ONCE I WRITE TODAY for FULL DETAILS! WRITER'S SELLING SERVICE DEPT. 1 5 AUBURN, N. Y. DONT YOU LIKE My Eyelashes and Eyebrows? You can have the same LASHNEEN, a hair food, applied once each day, will absolutely produce thick and long eyebrows and eyelashes. Easy to apply— sure in results. Lashneen is an Oriental formula. One box is all you will need. Not sold at Druggists. Mailed on receipt of 25c coin and 2c postage, or Canadian money order. LASHNEEN COMPANY, Dept. 28. Philadelphia. SONG POEMS WAIMTFO Bi£ demand. Writers re¥ W M. J-jtT ceive QVer $1>000,000 yearly from publishers. Send for National Song, Music & Sales Service Booklet, Brennen Suite 45, 1431 Broadway, New York. EhfrBookletFREE Photoplay Ideas Bring $25 to $200 j Yon can cash in your "happy thoughts" and earn big money right in your own home in spare time. No previous experience necessary. Our easy home course turns out more successful scenario writera than all other schools together. Write now and get by return mall FREE Booklet, valuable Information, Special Price and Prize Offert Chicago Photoplaywright College, Box 278XY,Chlcago GET RID OF THAT FAT FREE TRIAL, TREATMENT Sent on request Ask for my "pay-when-reduced" offer. My treatment has reduced at the rate of a pound a day. No dieting, no exercise, absolutely safe and sure method. Let me send you proof at my expense. DR. R. NEWMAN, Licensed Physician t State New York. 286 Fifth Avenue, New York. Desk C-48 (The Picture Oracle— Continued.) . process, but nevertheless very interesting on the screen. _ I am sure that the majority of people enjoy bits of science such _as this in the films. It is nice to have something different once in a while. Grace Cunard Admirer. — Are you sure that you addressed Grace Cunard at the right place? She is usually very prompt in answering her mail. Write to her again, and say that you have written twice before, and I am sure that you will hear from her. Address her at Universal City, California. Dud.— You have seen nearly all of the Pearl White serials, I notice. You must be a very steady customer of your local picture house. Regular "first-nighter," eh? Pearl White was born in 1889. Address Crane Wilbur in care of the David Horsley Studios, Los Angeles, California. Pearl White and Creighton Hale both get their mail at the Pathe Exchange, 25 West Forty-fifth Street, New York City. She is now appearing in a new serial, "The Fatal Ring." June E. B.— You are right about Clara Kimball Young starring in "The Price She Paid." It was originally announced that Norma Talmadge would do the story for Selznick, but plans were later shifted, and Clara Kimball Young substituted. There is not the slightest doubt that no one could make a success of the stage if he detested it. L. M. C. — I quite agree with you about the general trend of the photo plays, and think that there should be less morbid features, as people get enough sorrow and cares in their everyday life. What they need is something refreshing, that will take their mind off their troubles for a while at least. I think, however, that the producers are coming to realize this more and more each day, and feel sure that there will be less of this type of photo plays in the near future. They go by what the exhibitors tell them the patrons of their theaters want, so it is bound to come down to that sooner or later. Dot D. — Joyce Fair is not playing in pictures at the present time. She made quite a hit in the stage play, "The Dummy." Her last screen work was done with the Essanay Film Company. She is a very clever little actress, and I for one enjoyed her picture work immensely. Yes, your address wlil reach Jack Sherrill, all right. Sorry, but I never heard of your friend Lillian. M. R. F. — Of course, good looks have a great deal to do with a person's success before the camera, when it is coupled with the ability to act. The Screen Opportunity Contest is over now, and the names and photographs of the winners have been published in the magazine, and they have also been notified by mail, so you no doubt know your fate by this time. Muriel Ostriche has been appearing in pictures right along. Yes, you will come across people off the screen who are the very image of actors and actresses, and yet no relation at all.