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William Haines
Offers
Q Here's a chance to have your own movie show! This camera outfit will be sent to the one who writes the best .. i> fan letter.
6VERT0HE has seen William Haines in "Slide Kelly Slide11, "Tell it to the Marines11 or one of his many other pictures and almost everyone has a defi' nite opinion about him. Write clearly and cleverly what you thin\ of this irrepressible young man and if your letter is the best from the standpoint of sincerity and originality this valuable gift will be sent to you.
Address — WILLIAM HAINES c/o Scree NLA nd Contest Department 49 West 45th St., New York City
Contest closes October 15, 1927
HT HAVE just had the thrill of my life — for I've become a picture producer. Not only was I able to bawl out a director for the first time in my film career — and show him how it felt to take a little direction himself — but I felt the thrill of creating a picture for the first time — and solved a difficult problem of entertaining the boys at the country club, all in one fell swoop. Which isn't bad for a young fellow trying to get along.
It all happened this Way — over at the country club I belong to, every fellow has to arrange a little entertainment every now and then for the gang. Usually a play, with some of us acting — or a musical skit forms the basis of the program. I had an idea that an amateur movie might be a novelty.
I talked it over with the head of the laboratories at the
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G[ William Haines ta\' ing a moving picture with the Pathex automatic movie camera which he has offered to the readers of Screen land.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where I work. He agreed that it would be a novelty — but asserted that it would cost a lot of money.
"But," he added, "Why do it with professional apparatus and foot a big bill. They make little cameras that take small film.'"
Such was my introduction to my Pathex outfit. Mr. Nicholaus, in the laboratory, ordered an outfit for me, and it all came in one box — a little camera no bigger than a kodak, with a clockwork motor to make it go, a little
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