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CHAPTER XXX 121 the cause of a delay. Too many sets will cause wasteful delay. To use too many different sets in a play is to reduce the chances of a sale. 7. This does not mean that interiors are not to be used. To the contrary interior sets are desirable and necessary to give variety, though the handsomest interior set cannot equal in pictorial value the pretty exteriors. You are to employ interior sets and to employ them as needed, but you are not to be wasteful. If you have a scene in din- ing room or library that can be played in the parlor with no loss of effect, play it in the parlor and save a set unless you know that pres- ently you will use the other apartment for several scenes. In other words, do not call for a set for a single scene if some other existing set will do, but do not force the action into an unsuitable apartment merely to save the building of another set. If you wish to use a par- lor just once and no other room will give the same effect, call for the parlor in preference to spoiling your play. 8. There is a constant improvement being made in portable lights, and a growing tendency to use actual interiors in preference to built scenes when these interiors are of an elaborate nature. If the scene is laid in a machine shop, it may be easier and about as cheap to ar- range to hire the use of a shop, send over the lights and cut into line supply for current. It will not be cheap, but it will be cheaper than bringing the machinery to the studio and setting it up. It will cost about the same as a usual set, but the effect will be better. 9. There can be established no fixed rule as to the number of in- terior sets that can be employed. This must depend upon circum- stances and the play, but it will be well if the author plans to use not more than six sets in the first reel and not more than four additional ones to each added reel. In a two-reel story ten sets may be used, for example, and all of these ten can be used in the first as well as the second reel. It is supposed that a longer story will need a greater number of sets, and since they must be built they can be used in any part of the story. In serials, however, it often happens that a new set of scenes is used for each part of the story, or that only one or two scenes will be held over for the entire series. 10. Exterior scenes are, or are supposed to be, played out of doors. If they really are played out of doors, they are referred to as loca- tions- Just because it does not cost money to set the scenery it should not be argued that expense does not increase with the number of lo- cations written into the script. Each change of location represents a cost for the time spent in moving to the spot and making the set-up. which means the adjustment of the camera and the laying down the lines of the suppositious stage. All of this takes time, and time is money, but directors are willing to spend tlie time if they can get a series of pretty pictures, so if you do not move about too much, loca- tions within reasonable limits are permissible. If your outdoor work covers both city and country then you are covering too much ground. 11. Be careful of what vou write into vour locations. It is as easv