The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-15
IN STUDIO LAND
Facts and Fancies About the Folks
Who Make the Films

|lding* Scenario writer's: SRf8s
l. a warning against long pa thetic let j
tiers, accompany the offering of thI5ils
ers
a.. A plea against the~-Soang authors
life history.
g. Dreams are not always food for in
terestnlg dfamas.sa 9a ffs
A. Miracles and convenient eircunstanc-
IS do not make for realism always.
5. Loekets and locks Of hair are bit
trite--tos say the least.
8. 'Chirography is not the preferred
orm of medium. Typed manuscripts re-
:eive more favorable attention.
7. Your ideal hero and heroine are not
always as human as they would probably
be were they alive. Try to make the
,eader forget that they are not mere
printed folk.
s. Don't send in dried-up plot and
hen accuse the companies, who helped
Try these plots, of having ''swired' your
dea.
8. Think before you send a story to a
'ertain company for special star Doug
as Fairbanks, though really very capable
5 an impersonator, would probably never
make good job OF Baby Marie Os-
orne plot.
10. When You get your Ms. back, 1
wouldn't be half bad plan to reread
and see If you can't make some alter
,ti'.Ls before sending it else whera.
IL. Always make the synopsis as brief
5 possible. eliminating all lengthy ex-
lanatlons; the ida is what the studios
ant, principally
Shaking the salt out of his hair, stow
ng away his Cob" suit supplied by the
U. S. navy, and overhauling his wardrobe
II civilian clothes, Jack Pickford, now
I'm star with his own producing organiza-
|. ION, has started to work in Hollywood,
al, making the first of his new series.
Wilson enjoys film cartoons Because
resident Wilson has heartily enjoyed
he Paramount Bray photographs and Bur
ION Holmes travelogues Charles Hart, di-
ector of the division of films of the com
nittee on public information, has request
ed the Bray studios and the Paramount
o ship eight of the most popular of the
photographs and travelogues to Europe for
he entertainment of the peace party. 1t
the intention of the president to show
ne cartoons, etc, TO distinguished Europe
ms in order that they may gain an appre-
iation of the win-the-war work the
american artists have been doing.
Mary Thurman, who has contributed
much enjoyment for the Mack Sennett
omedy fans, has been selected to support
Bryant Washburn in his forthcoming fea-
lure
Pauline Fredericks first under the Gold
Syn banner, direeted~by her author-hus-
and, Willard Mack, is The Woman On
he Index, from the Bradley Broadhurst
stage
Mary Pickford's second release for the
First National Exhibitors circuit, viii be
i screen version of Pollyanna The pro-
1uction of Daddy Longlegs, under diree-
ton Of Marshall Neilan, is still hung up,
ending Miss Piekford's recovery from an
attack of pneumonia, with which she has
| Deen confined to her home for the past
three weeks. 1t Is now understood that
| she will not be prepared TO resume work
| in less than four weeks, as she expects
| to go to San Diego as soon as she is able
| for period of convalescence which viii
extend over more than three weeks.
Marguerite Clark and her real leading
man." Lieut. H. Palmerson Williams
| have just returned from their honeymoon
and, strange enough, Miss Clark has start
| ed work on picture entitled, A Honey
| moon for Three.
Doug. Fairbanks is responsible for the
| ollowing at the press club supper ten
| dered to him in Los Angeles on his re
| turn to the coast:
They were dreadfully in love, she anC
Charles, his friend, and had at last de
cided that the world was not big enough
to contain them both when separated
And so the step was to be taken and the!
were to meet at Philadelphia, leaving New
York city by different trains He went
but conscience, or what not, held he
back Train after train he met, and whel
the last one disgorged its passengers, ant
still she was uncounted amongst the flock
he went to the telegraph Office and wiret
her:
g The light that lies in woman's eye
Lies, lies, lies
Our editor has it all doped out that
visit to bad picture show means tire
days of gloom, which he figures as fol
lows: He always expects the worst,s
: there's the gloom of the day precedin
when he knows where he's going tn
next day. Then there's the day on whic
he actually sees the picture, and the 70
lowing day, during which he is trying t
work off the effects of having witnesse
!. the show, sort of an endless chain, /
I say, but what about the good ones?
/ Perhaps there isn't much in name, a
Bill Shakespeare says, but still the fill
: business boasts of Hlagnate name
Backer and director named Badger.
al
IS Vera Y: SO you are thirteen and lon
a. ing to enter the movies2 Well, Yer
they do say as how thirteen is an III
Il lucky number. :, But if you have your a
u mission and war lax, you shouldn't .ha,