t--:--x:--:-x:-:-x--:-:-:-yx-A.x-:x-N How to Put Throbs in Movies : I ( By RING LARDNER X J-x-:-x-:-x-x-x-:-:-h-x-:-x-:-:4' To the Editor: When I announced through these cols, last week that I was going to start a correspondence school of photo play writeing, I hadn't no idea that they was such a i.ation wide spread demand for a institute like this kind in which the public knowed they could place absolute confidence in It and not be fleased out of their mouey, but since the announcement come out, the mail has been dirty with letters from people of all sexes that wants to take the coarse and how much it Is and etc These letters will be answered an-swered Jn the order named at the proper time and the school should ought to be in fool swing pretty soon. One letter however has come to our tension witch seems like it bares repeating and I will take the pains to copy it down here and also grant the writer's request in part which she wrote In the letter as follows: "Ring School of Photo Play Writeing., Write-ing., Great Neck, L. I., "Madame; I seen in the paper where you were going to leara the people to write photo plays and you give a sample in the same paper of a 1 reel comedy as it should be wrote witch convinced me that you got the 1 reel comedy game down to a silence. Well honey I have always wanted to nose Into the photo play writeing game and earn a bbl. of jack dureing my loose time, but my mind never runs to comedys. My life has been a sad one as I am married to a widower wid-ower 3 nios. old with a large brood of children over which I spent most of my time brooding over them. It looks to me like if I knew the technic and how to put my sour thoughts down on paper they would make a Ideal photo' drama but as I say I don't know anything about construction, and etc., so I wish you would write a serious 5 reel drama without no monkey business about it and if you do as well with it as you have done with the comedy I will be glad to sub-scrib sub-scrib to the coarse and all that goes with it WEEPING WILLIE." Miss Willie seems to have the proper mental pose to knock them haggard hag-gard as a author of heart int. drama and I may as well also say that she has chose the best field, as not only is serious 5 reel plays a whole lot easier to write than a comedy but producers also offers 5 and 6 times as much money for them and in rare instants pays better than Y2 of 1 per cent of what you think you got comeing. Well then the necessary items in a 5 reel drool is (1) a suggestive title (2) heart int (3) suggestive subtitles sub-titles (4) a pop eyed girl witL loose tear ducks (5 a couple villains and (G) a chorus man that can knock them dead. The scenes should ought to be lain out west in some wild rough mining country like New Jersey. Jer-sey. - For this model reel we will take the title "Why Girls Snore", and the locale It Muskegon, Mich. .Characters Lily Nausea, a young school marm (juvenile lead) Cecil Corset, a young prospector (juvenile lead) The Baby (soubrette) Geo. Bloole, a bad egg (villain) 'Heap Big Wart, a Indian (asst villain) Indians, cowboys, prairie dogs, wolves, cattle, Mexicans and musk-rats. musk-rats. Continuity, Reel L Scene 1 Lily the new 12 yr. old school teacher t Muskegon Gulch sets in the school rm. cracking watermelons. water-melons. School is out and Lily has took off her shoes and is smileing to herself. Geo. crawls in through a crack In the window and snoops up behind Lily and sticks his thumb in her eye. Lily's smile broadens as she thinks It is Cecil who she is all steamed up about Sub-title: "Is It Mr. Corset?" Geo. scowls and clinches his 2 front teeth. Sub-title; "Mr. Corset eh? So that Is the way the wind blows." Lily turns and recognizes Geo. and begins to snlvvlo Snh-tlHp 'Gpt tha lio.ll ntit- of my house." Geo. pulls a set of tweezers and Is about to yank a few eye lashes when Cecil dashes in. He fires and Geo.'s nose drops off. Subtitle: Sub-title: "I beg your pardon." Cecil picks Lily up by the nape of the neck and takes her home. Scene 2 Cecil's chewing gum mine near Muskegon Gulch. Cecil's men is seen digging for the fragrant ore. Long shot a Dock of mountain weasels passing acrost the sky line. Cecil comes in with a jovial smile and knocks seven miners down wllh a pick. Sub-title: "Have you struck gum?" The miners shake their eggs. Subtitle: Sub-title: "No but we have struck a rich vein of raspherrys." Heap Dig Wart oozes up behind Cecil and scalps him with a oysler fork. Sub-title: "Ouch." Wart goes away and Geo. conies on the scene. Geo. laughs and asks how It happened. Sub-til Ie: "Lie scalped me with a oyster fork." Sub-title: "He thought you was scalped oysters." Lily rushes in and begins to weep. End of Reel 1. b3 the Bell Syndicate, Ino.) ,