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THE FORM OF THE PHOTOPLAY 33 A happy little farce comedy. Maudie quarrels with Perdie and goes right home to her Ma, but Ma doesn't want her because she is planning to marry Major Webb, so Maudie goes back to Ferdie and everybody's happy. Now they follow with a little more detail, and give a few of the facts, something like this: Maudie hasn't been married very long and she can't get used to having Perdie read the baseball page at the breakfast table, so one morning she tears up the paper before he gets a chance to see if the home team's crack pitcher is better or dead. That would make any fan mad, and you can't blame Perdie for breaking a few dishes and saying a few things. It's the first quarrel and off Maudie goes to Ma. She expects to cry all her sorrows out on the maternal shoulder, but Ma is busy. She's a widow and not so old. Now that Maudie is off her hands she has a chance to marry Major Webb. Maudie gets home so late that night that Ferdie does not know of her return. She hides when he comes down to breakfast, but when Perdie finds the paper propped up against the carafe and open at the sport- ing page he guesses the rest and for once he forgets to read the paper in his delight at getting Maudie back. Don't you think that a synopsis like this would interest the Editor more than a story that starts off "Ferdie, a rich young broker, marries Maude, the daughter of Mrs. Sprague, a widow. Ferdie is a baseball fan and we see him in the first scene sitting at the breakfast table reading the paper and hardly speaking to Maude. When she speaks to him he gets angry. The next scene shows the same thing the next morning. Maude tries to get him to talk and when he will not, she tears up his paper. He gets mad and smashes the dishes and things, the maid comes in and he throws a roll at her. She runs out and Ferdie goes off to the office without kissing Maude. She cries and decides to go home to her mother/' etc. Keep it terse and you'll not complain that your story has not been read. It will be read and read with interest if you make it interesting, but when the Editor starts to read he may have three or four hundred scripts that have accumulated and he has not the time to wade through two or three pages of synopsis. He wants the main points of the story at a glance. A limit of 250 words is set in most studios and in some the long synopsis will be returned with a request for the shorter length. The 250 word limit was first used by the Edison com- pany because all of its Editors received a copy of the synopsis of