The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-08-09

goes up to Central park and falls out
Of oitcrmOhile running thirty miles
an hour. The first time he falls out,
maybe, the Teller that works the cam
era wasn't looking, 50 he's got 10 fall
out again. This time somebody moves
the camera, so he falls out third time,
and one way or another they keep that
actor falling out of an oitermObile go
ing thirty miles an hour from half past
nine to lunch time. SuppOsing he does
get five hundred dollars week. Is
that a life? | ask you"
"JuSt the same. it's lot Of money TO
pay" Zapp said, land furthermore all
the moving picture actors gets con-
tracts for a year already"
"But what Is such contracts wOrth?"
Blrsky asked. IF moving picture fell
Ter wants to get rid of such con-
tract, all he has got to do is to get
the party of the second part to play
Ned in a fillum where Ned escapes
back from cliff five hundred feet
from the sheriff by leaping on horse
high, understand, ard the widow
can frame the contract and hang 1t
In the front parlor as a sOwveneer of
the two weeks when her husband used
to make five hundred dollars a week"
Zapp sighed heavily.
81 got designer which has me I'M
der three years contract since last
Tuesday already" he said, land If l
could hire Maxine Elliott for a model
and G. Nj. SChwab for salesman. l
couldn't get rid of that murderer's
designs for the cost of the Innings
alone. There's big money in ii for
somebody who could persuade that
Swindler to play in fillum where Ned
gets locked in Il burning ranch by
the Mexican for n thousand dollars a
week. | would pay two weeks salary
| out of my own pocket, and If they
amt got Il ranch to burn l would even
| give the moving picture concern Il
house out in Borough Park which |
got vacant ON my hands since 1913"
Maybe you think such n thing amt
| possible that a waist designer should
! get Il Job as n moving picture actOrT'
| BirSky said. Believe me, Zapp, the
| last thing in the world which is nee
esSary in the moving picture business
is experience-in particular the actors
and the people which writes the see
! narioS. You remember in the old
days, Zapp, that everybody thought he
could sell clothing. Well, nowadays
every fool thinks he could be a NOV
| ing picture actor, and most Of them
are. It's the same way with writing
the scenarios. Take any retail dry
goods concern today, and everybody
from the cash girls To the store super
intendcnt is writing scenarios on the
side. Also, Zapp, if you go into q
street car and a fellow opposite you
is talking to himself, understand, you
might think he's a lunatic, Iapp, but
as a matter of fact he amt crazy b!
from three to ten dollars, on account
h, is doping out scenario which h
would sell for SomewhereS around tina
price to q moving picture concern
Furthermore, if you see man stan'
still on the sidewalk and make mark
on an old envelope with a pencil, tina
amt no sign that he's trying to fiBur
how ii could be he is Overdrawn a
the bank two dollars and forty-fiv
cents. No, Zapp. 4 Teller could max
u living nowadays collecting old enve
lopes and selling 'em to people I
make memOrandums Of scenarios on.
"How do they do IT, Zapp e2
claimed. 81 could no more write see
mario and get away with it as chez
for a million dollars"
That's because you amt never trle
TO write a scenario" Birsky said. ~
Cou'yp got 70 do IS 10 take u play Liz