Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-29

| and II is but an Incident in the story, lies
| in newspaper clipping, which was inclosed
in the script when 1t was submitted The
| clipping was to the effect that Kansas
| City man took one look at the wife he had
| advertised for. as she got off the train wear
| ing red carnaton for identification, and
| beat Il.
AS the story was originally written Lewis
| Is supposed to have serious troubles in
his mind as to, the advlsability OF his ac-
cepting the girl the boys have advertised
for and, accidentally picking up the paper,
he reads the aforementioned clipping. 1t
decides the matter for him. He resolves TO
beat II before she arrives He has mine
which he thinks Is worthless, and he leaves
this to the girl together with a note to
the boys, and departs
Metro will not even allow coincldental
discovery OF this kind In one of their pic
lures, although Just such discoveries make
up life, or the drama, or fiction. We get
| around 1t by having an old ministerial bar
tender of the Three Cheers Saloon shake his
head every time Lewis mentions his ap-
preaching marriage.
Finally coming to Lewis cabin, he re-
marks that he once had a friend and here
is what happened to him. From the depth
Of his pocket he pulls out the fateful clip
ping and shows II to Lewis. We have cir
cumvented the coincidence, and In addition
we have drawn an odd type character In
the old bartender, who remarks, Marriage
is woman's game, Lewis, don't sit in
You can carry this. of course, to an ex-
treme--to point where all naturalness is
destroyed and the freshness of your story
is lost. Perhaps many will think that the
incident related is carrying 1t too far. but
there were many things to be considered.
Here was town of perhaps 40 persons,
in an out-of-the-way corner or the uni
verse. They have papers only on rare oc-
casions II the locale of the story had
n different.
In large city there are thousands OF news
papers published every day.
Then we had to show that the girl dis
covered the advertisement in the first place.
She could do this naturally. as she worked
in a large office in the city If we have
two accidental discoveries in the papers in
one picture 1t begins to look bad"
AS a matter of fact. we circumvented
the first discovery in an odd way We
showed the girl working with number OF
others in the outer office of mining pro-
moter. The promoter Is seen making ad-
vances to the herlne until she Is driven
almost to desperation. Having shown this,
we do not like to have her happen" to
discover the way out of her troubles.
We show two or three girls reading a
newspaper and coming across the item ad-
vertising for n wife II reads to the ef-
feet that the girl must be blonde. One
of the girls shows the heroine the adver-
tisement, with the remark. You're a blonde,
Nellie this ought to interest you"
Nellie is about to read when we flash in
side to the boss. He pushes a button, ring
ing a bell in the outer office AS Nellie
starts to read she hears the bell calling her
inside. She picks UP her notebook and
pencil and starts inside.
Then we have final scene between the
promoter and the heroine He seizes her
madly in his arms and Is about to kiss her.
when partner of the promoter bursts in
with some important news Nellie escapes.
broken-hearted and returns to her desk.
There she sobs over the paper that she had
started to read when called inside. In a
most natural way her eyes light on the
article.
She resolves to answer It, and does so.
We accomplish something else by taking
this roundabout course. Instinctively we
rebel at the idea of fine young girl, our
heroine, answering an advertisement of this
nature
We can however, conceive OF her an
swering this advertisement in a moment of
anger and when her pride is wounded.
Then 1t is anything to escape. She would
do things then that she never would attempt
in a calmer moment
OF course, we must. to be logical show
why-notice the "why?" again she actu-
ally leaves. She might answer the adver-
tisement under the stress of emotion. but
time must elapse before she gets an an
swer. In this time she has naturally re-
gained her self-control. This was all COW
cred in the script.