Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-09-24
Collaboration For
a Picture Play
II Leads to Something More
Real Than Photographs
By F. a. Mitchell

sob, Mr.. FIELDING, I'm SO glao you
have come!"
aAnd why, may l ask, are you glad
that I have conner The gentleman's
ayes lighted with pride and pleasure.
nRecause l have use for you. You're
4rst the person In all the world l have
wished for this morning"
Mr.. Fielding's c~ountenance fell. But
Miss Meriweather was SO eager, so vi
vacious, so evidently absorbed in a
dominant idea, that at heart he was
NOT troubled. Nevertheless he said
half reproachfully:
81 am disappointed. | hoped your
Measure at my coming was disinter-
ested."
oDon't be silly. l have received an
important proposition"
nshow me the man that I may kill
him."
nYou mean thank him. I anticipate
no end of pleasure from the opportuni-
ty he has given me"
"And l no end of pain"
oThere you go again. Now listen to
me. 1t has been proposed to us-any
nf us here at Wildwood-to make a
scenario for a picture play, be the per-
formers If We like, house and
grounds to be used for the scenes.
Now you know why l am SO glad you
have come. 1t is because you are a
literary man and can make the scena-
RIO"
you mean an apology for a scenario.
We'll, I'll do the best / can for you
that is, III help you to construct the
scenario. With such a palatial house
and grounds, we must make it a high
grade society play. l must look up a
theme"
II can't wait for you to look up a
theme. l wish to begin right off,"
Suppose we take for our motif a
runaway matchT
"The very thing!'
tits not new, but picture plays are
more dependent upon the scenery, the
effectiveness of the actors and ac-
tresses and all that than the novelty
of the theme. With this residence,
grounds and, above all, your own sweet
self for the heroine, any sort of play
must be a success"
Gust think-to be a heroine!" And
she clapped her hands gleefully.
ITO begin," continued Mr.. Fielding,
you, being the leading lady,
you mean the heroine"
you being the heroine, Wen call you
Sophia Waterman"
my favorite name for a heroine Is
Constance M~altravers."
very well, you are Constance NAL
~travers. in love with-whom shall we
have you in love With"
"Do you mean really in love with or
only for the play"
For the play, Of course"
You know so much more about
stage matters than any of the rest of
US that l think you had better take the
part yourself"
This was said haltingly and with
eyes bent On the floor.
I'VE will not, of course, ~ our own
names. l must have another. How
would Enoch Rogers do?"
ut wouldn't do at all. / IKE How
ard Mortimer much better"
Howard Mortimer 1t is. Howard
Mortimer, being in love with Constance
Maltravers and her father being a
grim curmudgeon"-
rs it necessary to make papa that"
"Oh, no. He may simply wish for
you to marry a prominent politician
who, though younger than himself, is
his intimate friend"
Miss Meriweather looked up at Mr..
Fielding with an expression he under
stood, though another would not Aave.
And who is to play that partT' she
asked. after a long pause.
The gentleman him / mean Mr..
Cogswell, perhaps, might
Mr.. Cogswell would do no such
t~hing-that is, if the heroine Is to mar
~ Howard Mortimer"
I never thought of that. We must
md some one else"
Perhaps l can persuade Mr.. Cogs-
well to take the part"
And give place to Mortimer at tho
END of the play?"
l don't know. Is that necessary"
MIR. Fielding smiled.
why couldn't that be left till lat
FRI asked Miss Meriweather.
was not aware" replied Mr..
FIELDING, with a slight hauteur, that
woman who is so deeply in love that
Pne Is about to defy her parents by run
ing away with a nan would have any
'pouot as to what man she intends to
Fun away with"
"Mightn't she change her mind at
NE last minuteY'
That is a feature of realism which
would be difficult to work into our
pay considering the theme. 1t would
Pc incongruous."
| suppose we will have to leave Mr..
pogswel out"
Whom would you put I'm his placer