Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1918)

LJUNDREDS of people make BIG MONEY * 1 writing Photoplays, Stories, Articles, Etc. I Rowland Thomas, an "unknown writer," received $5,000 for one story! Elaine Sterne, another beginner, received $1,000 for a single flay ! Why don't YOU write something? YOU have ideas. If you gO to the Movies, if you read magazines — then you know the kind of material editors want. YOUR happy thoughts may bring Big Rewards! No Instruction Courses needed. We accept your bare ideas in ANY FORM — either as finished scripts or as mere outlines of plots. If your ideas need correction bek fore they can be sold, we revise, improve, perfect and typewrite them. Then promptly submit to Leading Film and Fiction k Editors. A small commission tk. is charged for selling. m This is YOUR OPPOR. B TUNITYl So get busy! Send us your Bare Ideas, BBk Plots, Articles, Poems, FinmBL ished Stories. And write ut m TODAY for full details. We will B send yon absolutely FREE, a fasft cinating story, "How New ft Writers Get Their Names in Print,'* and a beautiful, illustrated booklet entitled, "A Service That Helps New Writers Succeed. ' ' SEND FOR THEM AT ONCE ! WRITER'S SERVICE, Dept 15, Auburn. N. Y. 48 Photos of Movie Stars reproduced in half-tone. On cardboard, suitable for framing. Arbuckle, Bara, Chaplin, Pickfords, Anita Stewart, Pearl White, etc. Both male and female STARS are all here in CLASSY POSES. By mail postpaid 10 cents. Stamps or Coin. Ardee Publishing Co., Dept. 143, Stamford, Conn. D GUIDE E NT FREE Write for this valuable booklet which contains the REAL FACTS. We revise poems, compose and arrange sausic, secure copyright and facilitate free publication or outright sale. Start right with reliable concern offering a legitimate proposition. Send US your work to-day for free examination. KNICKERBOCKER STUDIOS,100G"e^h?.Vkea.f M MOVIE ACTING A fascinating profession that pays big. Would you like to know if you are adapted to this work? Send 10c for our Twelve-Hour Talent Tester or Key to Movie Acting Aptitude and find whether or not you are suited to take up Movie Acting. Instructive and valuable. Send dime or stamps today. Interesting, Illustrated Booklet on Movie Acting included FREE ! FILM IMFORMATION BUREAU, Station R, Jackson, Mich. PHOTOGRAPHY PAYS B I G ! Rarn $25 to S100 a week as Motion Picture, Commercial or Studio Photographer. Learn in 3 months . BOOK FREE Fascinating Profession. Kxnert instruction. Day or eveninsr classes Easv tentis. Call or write for free hook and snecjal offer N. Y. Institute of Phototrraphy.Dept 183.141W 36thSt..N.Y. E.Brunei, operating 20 studios (The Picture Oracle — Continued.) I. C— Y ou can reach Crane Wilbur by writing to him in care of Willis & Inglis, Wright & Callender Building, Los Angeles, California. He has left the screen for a few weeks, to be featured in stock at Oakland, California, while his new feature is being prepared for filming. Star Struck, — Mary Pickford's latest play is "The Little P rincess." Harold Lockwood has fair complexion. He is twenty-nine years old. Tom Forman has enlisted, and is now a corporal in the Coast Artillery. Any mail addressed to him in care of the Lasky Studios, Vine Street, Hollywood, California; will be promptly forwarded to him. I am sure the actors and actresses appreciate letters written to them from screen fans. It is the only way they have of knowing how the public likes their work before the camera. Alice R. — No, Romaine Fielding is not dead, as you suppose. He has not been acting on the screen for quite a while, but he is still in the film business. He has been devoting his entire efforts to directing of late, which explains why you haven't seen him on the screen. Previous to this he had a Western act out in vaudeville on the Pantages circuit. Miss Marie H. — No, Chester Barnett did not play opposite Ruth Stonehouse in "The Limb of Satan." Alfred Vosburgh's name is known now as Alfred Whitman. The Vitagraph Company thought it best to give Al a new name because some fans might think him German, and he isn't. Al was born and raised in this country, and so were his parents, and parents' parents. He is ' a real American through and through, so the Vitagraph Company decided. on the change from Vosburgh to Whitman. You can reach him in care of the Western Vitagraph Company, Hollywood, California. Harold Lloyd gets all his mail at the Rolin Studios, Los Angeles, California. Eugene O'Brien will receive any mail you may send him in care of the Lasky Studios, Vine Street, Hollywood, California. S. Rankin Drew is now over in France in the aviation section. He went over as an ambulance driver, later joined the aviation corps, and is making good. Maurice Costello is an American. Harold Llovd is one of the featured comedies at the Rolin Studios. He is known as Luke in the films in which he appears, as that is the name he gives his character. Write to Chester Barnett in care of the World Film Corporation, 130 West Forty-sixth Street, New York City. Francis, Ruby, and Ellen. — Francis X. Bushman will receive any mail that you send him in care of the Metro Pictures Corporation, 1587 Broadway, New York City. Helen M.— All studios use extra people. What you want to do is to register at the studios, so that you will be called uoon when they want some extra people, and will have an opportunity to get before a camera and see how you photograph on the screen.