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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09

They tell me they have scenario
writer's in California who can swipe
any plot. and tinker with it so an
author will not recognize it I'm
fortunately for my piece of mind,
seem to have nose for plagiarism
of my work. !.
When I went to see a production
of my The Goose Girl, l got a shock.
Il was wonderful. The photoplay
had realized everything I had ever
dreamed of in the story. That
cuickened my interest in movies.
One thoughts "If they can do a
thing so beautifully once. why can't
they do it every timer" 1t showed
me that the movies are capable of
conveying to an audience all the ro-
mantle charm that comes to the
reader of a romantic novel. But as
l watched one play after another. it
emphasized that such good produc-
tons were all too infrequent.
The thing obsessed me; it was like
|piled up to show that the guilt was
double. That fearful thing which is
called the Requirements of our star
was distorting good stories; and the
Movie Magnate, one of those persons
who used to press pants and who now
cables England to ask Charles Dickens
or Thackeray to write scenarios for him
exclusively, that person was to blame,
too. He, eager to buy more Emousines
and country places with japanese gar
dens filed with Ohio statuary. was
making his studios turn out pictures
too quickly. I wondered when they
would ever get on the right track.
$4,000 FOR A BooKi
The motion picture rights to most
of my books had been sold by last
| winter, but there were few left And
when think what some of those
books went for, cold chill creeps
over me. You remember The Carpet
From Bagdad? Seven years ago a
movie company bought the rights to
Gle. that fnr-wfnat2 Five ten thou
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09

story construction and that-if a She
she shall be able to say: "Oh, how
utterly lovely"
WHY THE GUYS PLuMBERr
I have in mind two books of my
own "A Splendid Hazard and The
Luck OF The Irish. One company
said that A Splendid Hazard had no
motive. The motive that urged on the
man in the story was only to try and
restore the monarchy in France and
place himself upon the throne; but, of
course, to the average movie makers
eye-zero. And about my The Luck
OF The Irish, another company said !:
THE hero isn't swell. Our star likes
to wear evening dress. Why the guy
in this story's a plumber" / thought
it hAtter to wait few years before
trying to dispose of the picture rights
to these books. An undying faith in
the movies told me that intelligence
was bound to come in.
Then to my establishment from Cali
fornia last spring came word that a
director wanted The Luck OF The
Irish. Incredible--with the hero a
plumber! Who was the director
They told me his name was Allan
Dwan. and I remembered recent pic
ture had seen of, his. At the time
| it had impressed me that here was a
man who had been given poor story
and asked to make picture of it; and
in some miraculous way, he had done it
creating thing Of beauty, the scene in
the African desert and its north coas,
ard esoino Il All in california; Nv
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
How 1helNoUeS co02ceiYed the YOUNG
Irish plunabe1-E nrad Nm 0uthS
funcYite bfdi17 child. oMA0aA

naturally am more than interested 70
see how Dwan will conceive him.
Where do writers get their ideas for
stories7 One day some years ago
was in cinema theatre in Paris. The
movie watched was entirely unusual
and French. All of the characters that
one saw was their feet-baby shoes,
jewelled slippers, pumps, brogans.
riding boots, high heeled shoes. From
the positions and movements of their
feet it was conveyed what their owners
were doing. The audience played the
picture with its imagination. From
that got the idea of young Irish
American, plumber, working in shop
below the level of the sidewalk. Every
day above his workbench he saw hum
dreds of passing feet and one day he
fell IN love with very neat and very
sensible looking pair of feet. Then.
inheriting a fortune from. an out
rageously wealthy relative, he bought
himself an around-the-world trip ticket.
steamer, and-you know. You see,
few years before 1 had made a trip
around the world; hence that idea.
Easy, isn't it, to get best seller"
plot? Try it-romance, lovable charac-
tiers, color, action. Sometimes they
ask me: "Why don't you write realis-
tic novelist" What for? The ninety
per cent go to the movie theatres and
would rather see stirring, clean ro-
nance than problems" and smut. An
other point where Dwan and I agree
on is that and on the happy ending"
There is no particular art IN having
man blow out his brains at the close
of story or in having deserted wife
reading a love letter from her husband
leans are happy and healthy minded.
And by the way, the most romantic
character today is not the Irishman
nor the Frenchman. He is the young
American. His possibilities from a
writing viewpoint are enormous. He
lis the auintessence of romance today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09

Shake" I agreed. "They made me
look foolish, too. Nobody who ever
read The Voice In The Fog would
have recognized 1t on the screen"
The too frequent thing had hap
pened. The director had not begun
to realize the possibilities of the
tale. Did you ever notice how often.
when the movies present the draw
ing-room of wealthy man. they
have it filled with teakwood furni-
turef As soon as man becomes
rich, does he buy teakwoodf
We hear much about the educa-
tional value of the movies. That is
true, very true. The scenery, Gus
toms and all of foreign countries
have been brought right into our
theatres. Were college to use mo-
ton pictures, it could educate in the
than by any other way. But there is
still great educational work that
the movies have left undone. In the
some of the stars and graduated
show girls who fill in as guests at
RECEPTIONS" if they would only
teach them the correct use of the
knife and forki In close-upsi Why,
the educational possibilities of the
movies are bound1ess.
MY FIRST MOVIE
have watched the movies pretty
closely. So many of my books have
been produced that I'm ever trailing
the picture theatres in the hope Of
CHANGING upon one. ! suppose it's a
kind of morbid curiosity, a desire to
see whether murder or merely as
sault and battery has been COM
mitted upon the story. Back in 1903.
] saw the first movie version of one
of my stories. 1t was short story
called Rajah's Vacation. Since then,
have seen many versions of my
stories, although, of course, the titles
were not always the same, nor was
always down as the author; nor
/ had / always sold my picture rights.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
A1Idza Dwuy,
who jozsook stars
q 10 direct dutho1.S

sand dollars1 Oh. no. for one hundred
dollarsI When the publishers told me
they had sold the rights for that price,
had a stroke. When l heard that
over my head they had not con-
fined themselves to this one act of
charity, but sold four more for the
same price, almost became paralytic.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is the
price today for the movie rights to
all my future work.
So many of my books have been
done IN pictures that ! have been
asked If ! wrote them with one eye
to selling the picture rights Emphat-
ically, no. / never wrote story for
the movies in my life. / think it is
because like clean romance and action
that my stories have found the way
to the screen. For after all the movies
are far more democratic than are
books And in my writing always
seek to entertain the great ninety per
cent, holding that high privilege. Let
care for the needs of our highbrows.
Nine out of every ten writers would
like to have their books done IL
pictures-no matter what they tell you
[Of course, the war did away with
much of the froth and frivol in Ameri-
can writing and undoubtedly forced
many authors to put red blood and
punch IN their stories. That will help
the movies, add something to the story
supply which seems to show signs of
being quickly bought up. There are
many good books that would make
good pictures that the movie people
have passed by. 1t is easy to under
stand. They cry for good stories and
most of them would not know good
story If it bit them. Did you know
that one of the essential qualifications
of the average scenario editor is tina,
l-if he-he shall know nothing about
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09


almost unlimited funds behind him
with the understanding that he
make pictures for them alone,
just few each year, spending as
much time as he liked, engaging whom
ever he liked and choosing himself
whatever stories he liked. That sound
ed like common sense. When next they
told me Dwan was University grad
uate, that in his college days he had
specialized in literature, that he had
been graduated as civil engineer and
had worked at his profession in remote
places before taking up pictures, 1t
seemed to me that here was a man OF
rough and ready action and of culture,
who had somehow acquired surpris-
ing mastery of motion picture. art
for I had seen his African picture.
And when they told me that Allan
Dwan had made some of the best
known stars but that he felt the star
system was wrong and that the story,
the author should be the star, plus the
directors conception of his story, l
said: Here is one man who is on the
right track"
SECRETS OF "BEsT SELLERS"
He is busy now out in California
making my The Luck Of The Irish
and I am eager to see if. Here is
where I Tess up something. Some
authors write introspectively. I did
it but once. That was The Luck OF
The Irish. The young plumber in
that story is a drawing of myself as
am and as should like to be. Oh
] course, he is my favorite character and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
DISSOLVES WRIT
IN MANDAMUS CASE
Judge Campbell Holds That Section 40
of City Charter is Repealed.

Holding that section 40 of the Pen
sacola city charter of 1918 was repeal
ed by the home rule charter act of
1915, Judge Campbell in the circuit
court has dissolved the writ of man
damus ordering the city commissioners
to call an election to change the form
of city government
John B. Jones and John S. Beard ap-
peared for the city and Judge Maxwell
and ]. J. Sullivan, ST., for the petit
toner.
The proponents Of aldermanic form
of government can now either drop
their fight or carry an appeal to the
supreme court for a final decision.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
An Ifzte1-view kp
Harold MacG ufh,

The movies are rapidly finding
themselves. A trend of picture max
ing has begun which, from all I can
gather, will lift photoplays to high
level of art. 1t seems only yesterday
that a surfeit of Mysteries of the
Box Car" and other atrocious things
reeled off in the studios made us de-
spair of the movies ever doing any
thing worth while. Today one can
see pictures that give keen enjoy
ment. | have seen many pictures
that made me wish for nothing in
their portrayal-sul prising. suppose
this will seem to you, for / under
stand it is quite fashionable in liter
airy circles to scott at the movies.
Not that I htink the movies per-
fetch, long. long way from it.
For one thing, too many of them
underestimate the intelligence of
their audience; too many deal in
the obvious. Too many atrocities
are still being committed on the
screen. And then I recall with feel
ing having gone to see production
of one of my books, the picture
rights to which had sold to one
of the big companies. The story
was The Puppet Crown, a story /
was particularly FOND OF, for liked
the heroine of it about as well as
any character I ever drew. She
was a strong character. Imagine my
feelings then. when sat in the thea
ire and watched my story on the
screen. I could not recognize it.
Back in the studio they had put it
into chopper and ground out hash.
That is one thing I have against the
movies-mayhem of my favorite
heroine.
Yes, and The Voice In The
Fog. That was another high crime.
Donald Brian played the picture YER
sion of that one of my novels. 1t
was his first and his last picture.
made me look foolish"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09

Grocers who have their customers
best interests in mind sell Blue Ribbon
Vanilla and Lemon. Distictive. de1ic-
ious flavor. 2 OF. bottle. full measure.
BEST and takes less.'-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09

interest picked
up. They told me
that Allan Dwan
had just formed
his own produc-
ing company and
that an organiza-
ton called the
Mayfower Photo
plays. a new
conner had mt
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
DIDN'T HAVE A
WE'LL DAY IN FIVE
YEARS, SHE SAYS
Mrs. Crawford Is Restored
to Health by Tanlac After
Everything Else Failed.

sI have been under treatment for
about five years and have taken many
different kinds of medicines, but Tan
lac is the only thing that has done me
any good at ALL" said Mrs. 3. Craw-
ford, who lives at 1922 North Madi-
son street, Peoria, H., the other day.
TT would be impossible continued
Mrs Crawford "for me to describe the
suffering underwent and I didn't
have well day in five years. Every
thing ate disagreed with me and /
would have bad spells of indigestion
after every meal I was very ner-
vous, too, and I never got a good
nights sleep. Sometimes I would get so
dizzy that I was hardly able to stand
on my. feet. These troubles just kept
getting worse all the time, and finally
got so weak and run down that / was
not able to do any of my homework.
IT was a long time making up my
mind to take Tanlac, but after reading
the statements from so many good
people right here in Peoria, that de-
cided to see if it would do me any
good. BY the time had finished my
first bottleI was feeling like differ
ent person I have taken four bottles
so far and now / am as well and
strong as / ever was in my life.t My
stomach troubles have been completely
overcome and I can eat just anything
I want now and I never suffer after
wards. My nerves are in fine condi-
ton and / sleep like child every
night. 1 am telling everybody meet
,out Tanlac and have induced a good
many of my friends to take it.
All druggists sell Tanlac.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-09
PARADE FUNDS
REPORT MADE
REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND DIS
BURSEMENTS FOR ARMISTiCE
DAY PARADE MADE TO MARS
TON POST.

The Frank Marston Post of the
American Legion has received the fol-
lowing report of receipts and disburse-
ments of funds collected for the Arm
istice Day Parade, report made by John
Massey, chairman finance committee:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-24
BANK CLERK
CUT ON HEAD
He Owed Into the Wrong End Of the
Bathing Pool at Burlington and
Received Scalp
Wound.

Verne II P1enge, dtved Into the
wrong end OF the Y. NJ. C. A. pool at
Burlington while attending the bank
ers convention Saturday, and received
scalp wound besides being dazed for
awhile by the blow of the bottom in
bis head.
Where he dived into the pool the
water Ia only two feet deep, SO the
Young man was able to walk out OF the
water. He was somewhat dazed and
felt rather weak for several hours.
r. l. Mckee, physical director of the
Y. NJ c. A., administered first aid to
the injured man. His head was cut
tust back OF the forehead and the cut
was about two inches long. Mr.. Mckee
lad to cut the hair around the wound,
and with the exception OF having
sore head and O.. temporary bald spot
Mir. Pienge is none the worse for his
experience. It was fortunate that the
hlow did not render him unconscious
in the water.
A doctor took a couple Of stitches in
his head and he is all right today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-24
Gun Still a Mystery.
IBy United Press.J

WITH THE THIRD ARMY ON
THE RHINE, Feb. 2-(By mail.)-
The secret of big Bertha" the huge
gun that fired upon Paris, still is
jealously guarded. From commits
sion of high German artillery experts
sent to confer with the third army.
American officers attempted to elicit
some details of the big guns.
The German officers frankly adj
mitted that they knew little about
1t. They declared that information
about the big Berthas" was kept
secret even from the highest German
artillery officers. Only few specially
picked officers knew of the locations
9or details of the monsters, and the
crews of picked men were sworn to
secrecy and kept isolated from other
!, soldiers.
The crew were under oath to COM
: nit suicide to avoid capture or re-
] vealing information about the guns.
= The German officers claimed they did
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-24
They are Large Part of Convention of
the Bankers of This District
Which Was Large
One.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
They Oppose Tax Exemption Feature
OF Federal Farm Loan Act as
Working Against Liberty
Bond Prices.

The city Of Keohnk had the chair
Il man and one-twelfth Of those presen
at the convention of the bankers o
Group Eleven Of the Iowa Bankers as
ISOLATION held at Burlington Saturday
| the largest ever held.
| OF the 291 bankers registered, TWEEN
| ty-three were from Keoklk. Edward A
French was elected chairman of the
meeting, and J. o. Boyd was in charge
OF the general discussion which was
part OF the program.
There was tanqIet at / O'Clock
with after dinner talks, following 9
session at which the principal address
was made by Frank G. Odel1, secretary
of the Federal Land ban,a at Omaha,
who opened a theme that was yigor.
ously discussed lster In the afternoon
one OF the speakers was j. F. Deems,
who was applauded VIXEN he said that
the Inconvenience Of the food control
Boyd Starts Something.
The part OF the program given to
j. 0. Boyd, OF Keokuk, turned out to
he the principal part Of the meeting.
Nh. Boyd opened discussion on ban
ing matters, which was long and strong
before 1t ended in the passage OF long
and strong resolutions against the tax
exemption feature OF the federal farm
loan, law, which John A Dunlap, also
of Keokuk, helped to draw.
b. D. Chassell. an officer OF the farm
loan organization, joined Mr.. Cdell in
defending the law, and most Of the
bsnkers took the other SIDE The reso-
lutions adopted were sent to the sec
rotary OF the treasury, and recite:
That the bankers are behind the
Liberty bond sales, which should
have every obstacle removed from
their front: that the tax exemption
feature of the farm loan law is an
obstacle to the Liberty bonds; that
the principal benefits therefrom go
to bondholders and not to borrow
ers, and Liberty bonds sell at dis
advantage therefrom; that the tax
exemption section ought to be re-
pealed.
keokuk Very Much There.
Keokuk was repres ented not only in
numbers but in Influence and weight at
the convention of the bankers of
southeastern Iowa.
There was great contrast between
the meeting Saturday and the first
meetings a few years ago, when six
or seven men attended them.
The association group met in Keo-
LUX few years ago with about TWEEN
ty bankers from other cities present.
Among those present from Keokuk
were: E A. French, ]. O. Boyd. l..
Montgomery, F. s. Doles, John A. Dun
lap, o. s. Stanbro, Howard w. Wood
J r. Baur, Ira Fl. Crawford, Cecil E.
Mills. l. A. Lantz. ]. L. Maloney, AL
vim Kraft, e. G. Walsh, H e. Montgonl-
cry, c. Immegart, F. w. Kirchner, J.
". Anderson. Cora L. Fisher, Ella C.
Leu. Bertha L. Plug, F. Ames, G.. w
B. Dickinson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-24
COMB SAGE TEA IN
HAIR TO DARKEN IT
IT'S Grandmother's Recipe to Keef
Her Locks Dark, Glossy,
Beautiful.

The old-time mixture Of Sage Tea
and Sulphur for darkening gray.
streaked and faded hair Is grand
mothers recipe, and folks are again
nsing it to keep their hair a good
EVEN color, which is quite sensible, as
we are living in an age when youth
tul appearance is OF the greatest ad-
rantage.
Nowadays, though, we don't have
the troublesome task Of gathering the
sage and all the mussy mixing at
hime. All drugstores sell the ready-to-
use product, improved by the addition
Of other ingredients, called "Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound" 1t is
very popular because nobody can dis
cover it has been applied. Simply
moisten your comb or a soft brush
with it and draw this through your
hair, taking one small strand at a
time; by morning the gray hair dis
appears, but what delights the ladies
with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is that besides beautifully dar-
kening the hair after few appiica-
tions, 1t also produces that soft lustre
and appearance of abundance, which
IS so attractive.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-24
DEAN MCDONALD
SPEAKS WELL
Audience at Presbyterian Church
Greatly Enjoys Address by
Parsons College His
tory Head.

Dean Howard Mcdonald. of Par
sons college, and head Of the depart
ment OF history there, spoke at 4
o'clock Sunday afternoon in the
Westminster Presbyterian church.
The occasion was the semi-annual
praise meeting of the Missionary so
ciety, and he spoke on the subject,
"a World Plan
He said the christian religion is
the one religion which is q world re-
Hgion, and that christian people are
no longer thinking in provincial
terms; that world evangelization is
the natural and logical result to be
expected from a world vision
1.-The church has been nineteen
centuries in carrying out Christ's
last commission, and yet 1t ought to
be done in generation, and the
Christian church has resolved that
1t shall be done In this generation"
he said.
The special music OF the after
noon included THE Recessionar
sung by a quartette, James Young,
Howard W. Wood. C. W. Dickinson
and DR.. Van de Venter, and Mrs.
Wilbur C. Hughes sang The Battle
Hymn OF the Republic"
The praise meeting service was
planned by Mrs. w. G.. Blood and
Mrs. w. J. Fulton
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-24
CITY NEWS.

Mrs. w. H Bartlett, of Burlington
spent the week end, the guest Of Mrs.
Ida Fulton Davis.
Frank Waugh spent Sunday In
Alexandria with his brother, A. o.
Waugh and family.
Talking machine work done
Piano tuning and repairing g. J.
Meister. Phone B 1881.
-E1ks dance Tuesday evening. Feb.
20. People having invitations to any
former E1ks dances are invited.
Masonic: Special meeting OF
Eagle lodge No. II, Tuesday afternoon
at $3.50. Third degree. Feb. %.
/, Mrs. R. NJ. Japsley has returned
from Philadelphia, where she has
been visiting for several weeks.
-Elks dance Tuesday evening, Feb.
rs. People having invitations to any
former Elks dances are invited.
Miss Elizabeth Alkaline Howell,
who is a sophomore at Parsons col
lege, spent the week end at home.
Professor Howard Mcdonald.
dean Of Parsons college, was the guest
over Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. w ].
Fulton.
-Elks dance Tuesday evening, Feb.
25. People having invitations to any
former E1ks dances are invited.
Hand picked navy beans for sale
at lie per lb. in lots OF GO lbs. or more,
zoe extra for bags in lots less than 90
Tbs. Extra fine beans, well matured
J. O. Adams, Memphis, Mo-
Representative Frank Oertel will
be at home for a week beginning
Thursday, during the legislative re-
cess, and will meet at his Office any
body having any legislation matters
to talk about to him.
Fred L. Reeve, who has been fore
man of the Lutz & Stahl print shop
for the last three years, leaves Wed
nesday morning for new position in
Detroit Mrs. Reeve, who also has
made many friends here, accompanies
him TO their new home in the auto
mobile city.