Screenland (Oct 1924–Apr 1925)

clothes for the screen. She has a special designer, and forty assistants. After each production the clothes are dyed or altered, or style changed slightly, and then used by the extras in future pictures. Very few are kept by Miss Talmadge for her personal use off the screen. Norma uses only powder and lip stick so her bill for cosmetics isn't high, but her grease paints and colored powders are all imported from Germany and these amount to many hundreds of dollars a year. Wigs, specially made shoes and authentic copies of jewels, run into another big item. Rose Berghorn (N. Y.) : Casting Directors are, like their cast, of a changing disposition. Famous Piayers-Lasky : Long Island City. Fox: 19th Ave. and 55th Street, N. Y. C. International Film Co., (Cosmopolitan) 2nd Ave. and 127th Street, N. Y. C. D. W. Griffith: Orienta Point, Mamaroneck. Distinctive: 807 E. 175th Street, N. Y. C. Vitagraph: E. 15th Street and Locust Ave., Brooklyn. No charge, thank you, Rose, only too pleased to help you. Arabelle (Nebraska) : You've been misinformed about Thomas Meighan being a careless dresser in private life. Quite recently I saw the good-looking Tommy, and he was just the snappiest thing you ever saw in a well-cut navy-blue suit, striped tie, and grey fedora. He plays in "Tongues of Flame" with Bessie Love. Bessie has come East especially for this picture. Understand Meighan's nephew Eddie Sunderland is to be behind the megaphone. Marguerite Holland. There are always two sides to every story, and the other side is that Rudolph Valentino was in the midst of dressing when the well-known press-agent came to see him. As the press-agent was not alone, naturally Rudy referred him to Mrs. Valentino. In any case Mrs. Valentino is Rudolph's business manager and endeavors to take all unnecessary details off his shoulders. Ask the men around the studio about Rudy. From grip to production manager, they'll answer: "A regular guy!" A. V. R., Illinois. To Lillian Gish goes credit for finding Ronald Colman. Miss Gish had him in ''White Sister" and again in "Romola." soon to be released. Ronald now parks his car outside Samuel Goldwyn's studios, and expects to continue doing so for the next five years. Understand he is to do 'The Worldings" with Alice Terry. Ella Rainer (Maine.) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., vied with the Prince of Wales in popularity, this fall. Douglas, Jr., was a guest at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, Conn. The Prince came to the landing stage and passed away unnoticed, the fair young things all being so busy mobbing the handsome son of the Thief of Bagdad. SCREENLAND $31,500 offered for in prizes new stories /TAGAZINE publishers and motion |\/n picture producers are to-day enXT JL gaged in one of the greatest and most romantic quests in literary history. They are searching for new authors who can satisfy the age-old craving of the race to be told a story that is gripping and new. Fifteen thousand motion picture theatres in this country alone must be continually supplied with fresh stories. Thousands of publications read by millions of people of all types and classes must present new fiction every issue. To meet this demand, new writers must be found. In their search for new authors, publishers and producers have inaugurated a number of notable story contests offering big cash awards. In fact, such contests are being launched continually in the search f®r new authors. They are more than contests. They are quests. Unusual offer by Harper's In the short story f i e 1 d , Harper's Magazine is offering 310,000 in prizes in a series of four contests lasting throughout the current year. The Forum in another contest offers a prize of 31000 for the best story of 3000 to 5000 words. Other similar contests are numerous, the prizes amounting to large sums in the aggregate. Two standing offers are worthy of special mention: the Famous PiayersLasky annual prize of 310,000 for the best photoplay, and the 310,000 fund set aside by the publishers of Action Stories and Novelets for bare story plots. Doubleday, Page & Co. are offering 3500 in prizes for scenarios featuring O. Henry stories. For more than six years the Palmer Institute of Authorship has been co-operating with magazine editors and motion picture producers in the search for and the development of new .writers. Some of the best known authors, dramatists and motion picture producers have given the movement their enthusiastic support. Results have exceeded all expectations. $10,000 for one story Miss Winifred Kimball, a Palmer student living in Apalachicola, Florida, won the 310,000 prize offered by the Chicago Daily News in the scenario contest conducted in collaboration with the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. Mrs. Anna Blake Mezquida, another Palmer student,, won the second prize of 31000, and seven 3500 prizes were also won by Palmer students. In another contest, A. Earle Kauffman won a 31500 prize with a scenario headed "The Leopard Lily." Another student, Miss Euphrasie Molle, sold her first story, "The Violets of Yesteryear," to Hobart Bosworth. Louis Victor Eytinge wrote "The Man Under Cover" while in prison, and we sold it for him to the Universal Pictures Corporation. Members of the Advisory Council FREDERICK PALMER Author and Educator CLAYTON HAMILTON Author, Dramatist, Educator (Formerly of the Faculty Columbia University) ROB WAGNER Author and Motion Picture Director RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY Publisher JAMES R. QUIRK Editor and Publisher Photoplay Magazine C. GARDNER SULLIVAN Screen Writer and Director BRIAN HOOKER Author, Dramatist, Critic FREDERIC TABER COOPER Author, Educator, Critic (Formerly of the Faculty Columbia and New York Universities) "Judgment of the Storm" was written by a Pittsburgh housewife and "The White Sin" by a salesman — both Palmer students. These two pictures were purchased and produced by the Palmer Photoplay Corporation, and are now appearing in motion picture theatres throughout the country. Each author received 31000 in advance of the production of the pictures and will share in the profits on a royalty basis. Other Palmer students have met with similar success. James Leo Mcehan, who is now Gene Stratton Porter's director, sold two stories the first year. Elizabeth Thachcr sold her first story to Thomas H. I nee. Mrs. Frances White Elijah won a 32500 prize for her story, "The One Man Woman," and we sold her earlier screen story "Wagered Love," to D. W. Griffith. Our Story Sales Department has sold two stories for Winsor Josselyn so far this year. Well-known writers to help you The success of Palmer students is due mainly to the fact that the course is intenselypractical ;you study right at home in spare time under the personal directionof men who are themselves well-known authors, dramatists and motion picture writers. You learn to write by writing. You are given the manuscript and continuity of famous motion picture scenarios to analyze and study. You write actual stories and motion picture scenarios which we help you to sell through our Story Sales Department right here in Hollywood, with representatives in New York and Chicago. WRITE FOR THIS FREE BOOK "The New Road to Authorship" It tells all about the Palmer Institute's eystematic, step-by-step method of teaching Short Story Writine. Photoplaj' Writing and Dramatic Criticism — gives full details of the success of Palmer students and describes the Palmer Scholarship Foundation, which gives ambitious men and women the opportunity to get the complete course free by providing fifty scholarships annually. Just mail the coupon printed below and we'll send you this book — "The New Road to Authorship" — free by return mail. Palmer Institute of Authorship Affiliated with Palmer Photoplay Corporation Dept. 22-L, Palmer Bldg. Hollywood, Calif. Please send me, without cost or obligation, a copy of your book, "The New Road to Authorship," and full details of the Palmer Scholarship Foundation* I am most interested in □ Short Story Writing □ Photoplay Writing □ Dramatic Criticism □ English Composition □ Business Letter Writing Name. Address All correspondence strictly confidential