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CHAPTER XXXVII 163 Friday the thirteenth is doubly unlucky. Your first impulse may be to have your hero take his pen in hand and indite some such letter as this: Friday the 13th. Dear Henry: This is double-hoodoo day. I wonder what will happen to me before the day is over. I thought I would drop you a line and ask how you are. Yours, BILL. This is clumsy as vv^ell as stupid. No one is going to become in- terested in a story that starts off like that, the Editor least of all. Put as much as 'you can into a leader. Write it: 1. Office —Bill and Tom on—working—Bill upsets ink well—yells—■ uses blotter—Tom laughs—points to wall. On screen —Day to a page calendar showing Friday the 13th. Bill looks—looks at desk—no wonder he spilled the ink—knocks book off desk accidentally—Tom laughs—Bill throws the book at him—Tom dodges—it hits the Boss, who is just entering. That takes the spectator into tlie spirit of the play. It starts him right, and now he is in a mood for what follows. You have sounded a keynote. All you have to do is to hold to the key. It may re- quire a little more study to plan that sort of action, but the extra study is what will bring the checks. 35. Do not make your inserts help you out of tight places. Do not let your story get you into tight places and then you can make the natural and effective use of leaders, displaying your skill and not your stupidity. (2.XXXI:2) (4.XXXVII:7) tl3.XXIX:18) (16.XLIV:5) (23.XXXIV:3) (24.XXXIX:2) (26.XXXVII :40) (27.XXXV:11). CHAPTER XXXVII LEADERS AND CUT-INS LEADER is the frankest form of explanatory matter. It is some- thing that cannot be conveyed to the audience in any of the more subtle methods, but must be announced through the print- ed placard. In a minor way it is also used as the act drop. It is the printed matter that you see upon the screen. Sometimes it comes be- tween two scenes. In this form it is known as a straight leader. Gen- erally this is used for the conveyance of some fact that is supposed to occur between the previous and the succeeding scene. This may be, and generally is, a statement of fact announced and not spoken. If it relates some fact about the characters, it is termed a fact leader. If it relates to the passage of time, it is a time leader. If it is used to make definite the end of one development of action and the commencement of a second or to serve to interrupt a scene for any reason, then it is