New Britain herald., 1926-07-08
FILM WRITER'S ARE
 OFTEN FAMOUS TOO
Many Of Them Have Trailed
 Stars To Popularity

Hollywood, Cal. July s P'-The film writer of yesteryear who was glad to get five or ten dollars for script has risen to the heights Of importance and big pay,
 Many of the authors now rank with the stars in salary. Some have gone into the ranks Of producers and directors. still others have made enough 10 retire from the films, write first for publication and then let producers bid for their work. Women figure prominently in this profession
 scripts Prepared Differently
 A vast change also has come about in the way stories and plays are handled in the studio. In the early days. writers submitted com plicated scenarios. Now the usual procedure is for a writer to sum- marize in fifteen hundred or two thousand words the idea for cinema play.
 Another person, usually on the studio staff, adapts it for the screen and third prepares the continuity, which outlines all the scenes and action. The author. adapter and continuity writer usually cooperate, sometimes with the directors as sistance. Only occasionally does one man do all the work.
 Numerous outstanding successes carry the names of women and they have achieved their standing through years Of experience. Many started in the infant days of the in dustry,
 As High salaried as Stars
 Frances Marion. for example, be- gan her work while she still was an actress with Mary Pickford back in the old Biograph days. She wrote or adapted several of Miss Pick lords early successes and advanced until today she is one of the highest paid film writers Stella Dallas, ." The Dark Anger and "Humor- esque" are among her pictures.
 Anita Loos. who has made a for tune III iut IuONltS anu ioH Il'' achieved added fame with her book and play. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes started work with David Wark Griffith when he was in the early days of his career. Douglas Fairbanks played in many Of her pictures as have Constance Tal- madge and numerous other stars.
 Another old-timer in the youthful industry is June Mathis. She is re- membered for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" She still writes and adapts for the screen, but also has become q producer, "The Great CT Glory" being one of her pictures,
 Women Early in Business
 One of the early scenarists for Edison, vitagraph and Kalem was Clara Beranger. Virtually all the big stars have appeared in her film plays or adaptations. which include "Dr. Jekyl and MT. Hyde" with John Barrymore; Civilian Clothes, ' Tom Mcighan. and The GiIded Lily" Mae Murray. She now Is with William De Mile.
 A few Of the others are Eve Un- sell.Jeanie NacPherson, who wrote "The Ten Commandments" and di- rects occasionally; Marion Fairfax, now a producer; Dorothy Farnum. Ouida Bergere, Beulah Marie Dix, Bess Meredyth. Agnes Christine Johnstone and Josephine Loyett.
 Most of the men in the field came from newspapers and magazines. Griffith himself walked in the old Edison studio the first time trying to sell a scenario Of La Tosca. ' Monte Katterjohn. who has written and worked on many cinema sue cesses, including "The Sheik" with Valentino, and "The Clodhopper' for Charles Ray. began in 1908.
 Noted Authors Also Sccnarists
 Several of Marion Davis pictures were prepared by Luther Reed, who now has been made one Of Para mounts directors. Forrest Halsey, playwright. came to the screen to do "The Running Bird" with Gloria Swanson. as one Of his first sue cesses. "The Sorrows or Satan" is one Of his last adaptations.
 Pierre Ceilings Tom J. Geraghty, Paul Scholod. Laurence Stallings, Rupert Hughes Walter Woods, liar " Carr, Jack Cunningham, Paul nickey. Howard Emmett Rogers,