The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-16
In FIFTH ESTATE
Newspaper Men of Country Are
DESERVING Fourth Estate.
Find Abilities in Demand in the
Movie Field.
TOPEKA BOY WRITES SERIES
Wayne Wingart Now With the
Paramount People.
Says He Finds CO-WOrkers Got
Start on Papers.
TOPEKA BOY WRITES SERIES

With this article Wayne Wingart
starts a series of sketches about things
aof popular interest in the motion pic
-ture business. Mr.. WinSart was
reporter in Topeka for several years.
Later he Joined the staff of the Asso-
tciated Press and for a time was cor
Respondent for that organization at
sTopeka. During the war Mr.. Wingart
won a commission as a lieutenant.
After the war he was for time con-
nccted with the Red Cross Magazine.
aTEe is now part of the publicity organ
STATION of the Paramount company In
New York City, which by the way mas
ns it's chief. jerome Beatty. another
kansas boy and newspaper man.
BY WAYNE. WINGART.
> with the rapid development in the
.technical art of motion picture seen
iorIo and continuity writing in the last
sSew Years a new field for newspaper
workers has been developed. In the
early days of the motion picture IN
dustry when about all that was needeu
to make a picture was a story ana d
'Tocation," most of the work IN pre-
,paring scenarios was done by short
story and fiction writer's. To be sure
many of these people still remain In
sfho work. but the ranks of continuity
walters and production editors are
gradually, but surely, being fllled Win
Trained newspaper men. the demand
FOR writer's who can learn the teen
nioue Of continuity writing and adapt
Themselves quickly to studio activities
has given newspa permcn a big OPP
portunSy.
Someone inadvertently blurted out
.tthirty' the other afternoon IN tne
production and continuity department
of the Famous Plnyers-Lasky corpor-
.atlon, 1T the new two and half mil.
Hon dollar studio on Long Island. ano
ahalf of the force looked around for ar
ima cinary city editor. A survey OF tine
-a"partment brought to light the rae
-titat Thomas ]. Geraghty who is ir
-cnarge was formerly star reporter fol
the New York Herald and Roswell
tDaCue. whom he succeeded. came Into
The motion picture game from tins
s.nrf of the New York Tribune Wal
d~r1ar Young. for ten years dramauI
critic for the San Frarci7co Chronicle
,r~ho has Just arrived in New Yorl
.f-cr1 the coast to join the eastern de
~ rtmert ot the F?mous Players
-l-,-~r the information that five mem
sf>~rs of tho west "rn studio production
:" ~-,artnont arc former neWsDapermen
sg'',o ret includes Frank Fl WOODS
= - rc~ds the denartment. waite
FT--o~6- Eu~~ne r. Lewis, Elmer Har
r. ~~I F-anl- Cnrlin.
'HN',ort f. NsacAlnrney. VINO le1t nj
m. a. bod of the scenario depart
~. ri Famous Players in New YoTl
r. '-it'v to become production man
49, Mt the corporations Londol
s,,..,-,0, vas formerly editor of the NeN
.Yor., Tribune Cherries Maignt
cSra ~ tho ponular directors of Para
r.ornt picturcs, put his newspaper ex
poricncc to good use in making adap
f~.io~s for the pictures he directs MI
N'-i-ne is row in Kentucky with hi
germany filming exteriors fP hi
fo.-ncominG production of Jon
Eos story. 1.-The Kentuckian."
The activities of the production an
continuity department of the motto
4'cture studio center chiefly aroun
The t:tling. editing and cutting OF IN
p'cturcs. In this work newspaper pee
rle have shown their value. Titlin
Corresponds to newspaper head
writing; editing has its counterpart
thc copy desk. and cutting could
lEcned to makeup work on news
"a per.
The worE'-rs Go4-ils in the produ,
ton of a motion picture these days al
sim 'l9r. in M ~ ways, to the publish
ing OF n daily paper or monthly periot
zeal. Stories are selected; put in
Continuity form for use of the dire
tor who is responsible for the pi
4urization: titles are written; the pi
ture is eOlteQ ana I1nally maze red(
for distribution by being printe
when the Photographic prints a
completed the picture is ready for CT
culation over the country and
Foreign countries. This close analo
of motion picture making to new
paper work has been the magn
which has drawn so many from new
paper Offices to the picture studios.
And many more. of course, ha
gone into the publicity and advertise
end Of the motion picture industry.
Thus has THE Fourth Estat
yielded to the fifth.
Picture patrons who enjoyed ct
Miracle Man" can begin to get {
pectant. The New York office of I
Mayflower Photoplay corporation q
nounces that George Loane Tucker h
finished cutting Ladies Must Liv
successor to fuckers famous Fa
classic This feature has been in pl
cess of making at Mayflower's l
Angeles studio for nearly a year.
will probably be fuckers Christn
presen. tcithe public.
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