The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-02-15

goes up to Central park and falls out
Of oitermObile running thirty miles
an hour. The first time he falls out,
maybe, the Teller that works the cam
era wasn't looking, so he's got to 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. Surprising he does
get five hundred dollars a week. Is
that life? / ask YOU"
"Just the same, it's lot Of money to
pay" Zapp said, "and furthermore all
the moving picture actors gets con-
tracts for year already"
"But what Is such contracts worth?"
Birsky asked. "If a moving picture fell
Ter wants to get rid of such a 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 a cliff five hundred feet
from the sheriff by leaping on horse
high, understand, and 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.
IL got designer which has me I'M
der three years contract since last
Tuesday already" he said, land If 1
could hire Mox;pa EIJiott for Al ,,,odol
and G. M. Schwab for salesman, 1
couldn't get rid of that murderer's
designs for the cost of the Innings
alone. There's big money in it for
somebody who could persuade that
swindler to play in fillum where Ned
gets locked in burning ranch by
the Mexican for a thousand dollars g
week. 1 would pay two weeks salary
out of my own pocket, and If they
amt got ranch to burn 1 would even
give the moving picture concern a
house out in Borough Park which 1
got vacant on my hands since 1913"
Maybe you think such thing amt
possible that waist designer should
get job as q moving picture actor?"
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
intendent is writing scenarios on the
| side. Also, Zapp, If you go into n
street car and a fellow opposite you
is talking to himself, understand, you
might think he's lunatic, Zapp, but
as matter of fact he amt crazy by
| from three to ten dollars, on account
h, Is doping out a scenario which he
would sell for somewheres around that
price to a moving picture concern.
Furthermore, IL you see man stand
still on the sidewalk and make marks
on an old envelope with pencil, that
amt no sign that he's trying to figure
how 1t could be he is overdrawn at
the bank two dollars and forty-five
cents. No. Zapp. A Teller could make
living nowadays collecting old enve-
lopes and selling 'em to people to
make memorandums of scenarios on"
SLOW do they do it?" Zapp ex-
claimed. II could no more write see
mario and get away with 1t as a. check
for a million dollars"
"That's because you amt never tried
to write scenario" Blrsky said. "All
you've got to do is to take a play like
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