The screen writer (Apr-Oct 1948)

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Paul S. Nathan (Continued from Iiside Front Cover) fine picture made from Hartzell Spence's One Foot in Heaven. (The answer to that was easy and singularly gratifying: I had.) The mail also brought a brochure from Paul R. Reynolds & Son, agents, with the accompanying information that all the important Hollywood studios were going to get copies, too. Subject of the elegant Reynolds circular is Agnes Sligh Turnbull's The Bishop's Mantle (Macmillan). After presenting the book's sales history and bestseller record (it's still going strong ten months after publication ) , this unusual piece of promotional literature demands accusingly: "Why has Hollywood ignored The Bishop's Mantle? "1. Is it because the last Protestant film One Foot In Heaven, was a flop? "2. Is it because The Bishop's Mantle would be cheap to film? "3. Is it because the agents have failed to ask an exorbitant price for the entertainment rights? "Perhaps Hollywood is afraid of the book itself? "1. Is the picture industry afraid of making a moving religious story which contains no pageantry? "2. Is the picture industry afraid of making a clergyman human ? "3. Are the studio heads incapable of visualizing a drama in which 'no one chews scenery' ?" Having thus established an atmosphere conducive to doing business, the Reynoldses and the Hollywood corepresentatives, Lewis & Molson, Inc., proceed to state their terms. Computing the price of screen rights at 50 cents for every copy of the book sold in the original $3 edition up to the Monday before the day of closing, they figure that the price at the present moment now stands roughly at $46,500. If this new sales technique pays off, we can expect a complete revolution in agency methods. Gone will be the old pretense of politeness, the coy C L A S S I F I E D CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS are accepted for personal services, things for sale or wanted, specialized and professional services and other miscellaneous fields. All copy subject to approval of The Screen Writer. Rates: 1 time 10c per word; 3 times 8c per word; 6 times 7c per word; 12 times 6c per word. Minimum insertion: 20 words. Full payment must be received with copy. All mail will be forwarded in answer to box numbers. Address: The Screen Writer, 1655 N. Cherokee Ave., Hollywood 28, California LITERARY SERVICES FREE APPRAISAL — Novels, plays, articles, non-fiction books. Excellent publishing contacts. Bertha Klausner Agency, 130 East 40th Street, New York 16. OUT-OF-PRINT RARE, SCARCE & OUT-OF-PRINT Books our specialty. Your wants solicited without obligations. GEMINI BOOK SERVICE, 46-SW Lewis Ave., Brooklyn 6, N.Y. BOOK PLATES FREE CATALOG, showing hundreds of interesting bookplate designs, sent on request. Antioch Bookplate Company, 214 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, Ohio. ORIGINAL HAND PRINTED BOOK PLATES — your design or ours. Lou Appet and Myer Shaffer. "All-Arts" Service, 2053 Echo Park Blvd., Los Angeles 26, OL 0498. SECRETARIAL COMPLETE TYPING SERVICE by experienced executive secretary. Scripts, documents, office papers, stencils. Accurate, fast service. Rates most reasonable. Citrus 3-8777. FOR EXPERT MANUSCRIPT TYPING at reasonable rates MAURI GRASHIN AGENCY recommends LYNCH and CHARBONEAU, 226 S. Beverly Drive — CRestview 4-6279. wink of the literary merchandiser from behind the half-furled fan. Hereafter it'll be a simple matter, first, of stunning your movie executive with insult, then knocking him down, sitting on him, and forcing the fountain pen into his trembling fingers. John Dales, Jr. (Continued from Page 5) in when the strike was called. The actor's former contract will be reinstated and, at the option of the producer, may be extended for a period equal to the length of the strike. There are several possible legal termination dates and "escape clauses" in our new agreement with the producers. If the producers should decide to license for television any theatre film made and released between August 1, 1948, and December 1, 1950, the Guild may cancel the entire contract on 60 days' notice after January 1, 1949. Negotiations are to start shortly on wage scales and conditions for films made exclusively for television, as well as on some contract player conditions, re-use of stock shots and other related points, and if agreement is not reached on these matters by the end of 1948, the Guild has the right to terminate the entire contract on 90 days' notice. The Guild also has the right to reopen the contract on October 1, 1949 on all matters concerning television and on wages and hours for all actors. The contract terminates on December 31, 1950. This brief article has made no attempt to list in detail all the points covered in our new agreement with the producers. We obtained a number of improvements for day players and weekly free lance players including such matters as an increase from a quarter-check to a half-check for cancelled "weather-permitting" calls and elimination of the "on-or-about" starting date unless a contract is delivered to the actor at least one week ahead of the starting date of his engagement. STENOTYPIST Speeds above 200 W.P.M. Expert. Desires to work with screen writer, or Reporting of conferences, meetings. Legal Reporting. Full particulars in reply. Write Mr. I. Heiss, Box 102, Screen Writers' Guild. 30 The Screen Writer, September, 19 + S am