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Show enm 103 RichardA. Rpwlaml, fiKit National Pictures. - o flIu.stral:ion,s by J. Norman Lxfnd O This Is your corner. 'Make use of it for your information on questions are puzzling you. It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carebe fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. Your questions must . each letter address limited to two, and your full name and must accompany For special information send stamped envelope. All communications will tfiat always be held in absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Dear Mias Brooka : Will you plM Answer two Question for me. (1) Will you tell me ell you can bout tke name Rome, what It means, origin. Sic fractus fortie Whet do the words Man 7 Thanking you in advance, I remain, PENELOPE, Utah. I have keen usable with the material at hand te Sad even the meaning of the name "Rama. If I fled it later, however, I will I tell yea about It. Sic fractus fort! Thus perish die Latin phrase meaning, er Thue the strength of die greatest etooag, Is broken. Bsar Miss Brooks, I have been very Interested In Just Between Yea end Me, end have learned many things. Vy frteeds and I have some puaxllng questions w will be very thankful If you would answer. We are sending them all together to please excuse the number. (1) What will remove Ink stains from tan silk pongee T (2) Is It proper for s girl to speak a greeting first on passing a boy friend an the street or elsewhere? 1 am sending my name so you may send it to Bob and Blit. Wishing you lota of success, I am OOLDEN LOCKS, Utah. (1) Is It proper for a girl to say, thank (2) Can you, at the tloee of a dance? you id. Iks a good method for waring or curling hair that will aot harm tho hair and that Please will save aa much time aa possible. sead my namo ts Bob and Bill. TINET. Utah. (1) Is It, (or If not why Isnt It) proper t pick up a fork If you drop it at the table? (2) I am If years old, I have hint ayes, light long hair, I am slander and taU. Can you pleas tU me s faahioa that I may dress my hair so It will boosma mo and also bo In stylo. 1 have a round face Wishing you lots of BLUB EYES, Utah. sueeoss, I am studio people of Even accusing I hop we havent taken too much of your time and apace. Do you answer personal letters the of their ideas that you dont put tu the paper? THREB FRIENDS. Welcome girls. (1) I think you will And who tells the same tale of shortage of acceptable that tho following will remove the Ink withmaterial. Of late he has gone mostly to the big out Injuring the goods wet with clear water novels for material for Norma Talmndge. then cover the spot with powdered salts of Lest you be appalled by the seeming hopeless- lmnon, and let it remain a few minutes. Wash ness of your case, right here let me cheer you up in clear water. (2) Yea, the girl should speak somewhat. If, as the scenario textbooks first. the young man should thank you. tend to make you suppose, you had to turn out You(1) No, then tell him you nlso enjoyed the may the finished product to get your story accepted, you danee. (2) The fabric covered curler are the might well feel ready to quit. But the opposite best and least harmful. Of course It takes Is the ease. In fact, the amateur need not, and the same amount of time. (1) If you are In a restaurant or cafe, the should not, concern himself with anything beyond waiters will pick up the fork and hnnd you a a real story, simply and directly told. You need clean on. If you ar In a private home, not and should not worry about entrances, exits, where there ar n servant. It is perfectly Leave that to proper fer you or the gentleman neat you to fadeouts and other technicalities. the specialist tho man or woman whose business pick the fork up, and you hostess will hand hair softly and It Is to put the accepted sto-- y Into practical screen you a slean one. Wave your comb straight back from tha face, letting it conform. The amateur Is not expected to write seme welt In front of th ears but do not puff tinuity" that Is a Job separate and apart and Is K out. Fa. tea It low In th back and divide into two parts, cross these and form each Into the task of the studio expert. a twist across the head from ear to ear. Curl Tt Is true that only a small percentage of the th ends and let them coma from under th stories submitted to motion pIctKzw producers by cell and to the left side. amateur authors Is accepted," sayv Marshall Tas Indeed girls I answer many more letters than appear her each week. most one notable personally, of this producNellan, countrys The salesgirl sends me a scenario of society a tale of adventure in foreign lands OMEONE has said that the United States is a nation of story writers. I wont go quite so far as to affirm that, but I do believe that of all the people you meet, one out of three has either tried to write for the movies" or has contemplated doing so. And that, for the whole of the country, makes a vast total, writes Richard A. Rowland, I'irst National Pictures, in the New York Tribune. The promising thing about It all Is that what all these thousands of individuals are trying to do is not to pour water into the ocean, but to meet a need that really does exist. There Is, unquestionably, a dearth of suitable material for screen use. The professional writers cannot keep pace with the demand, nor can they go on writing forever. Novels, some of them later successful and others that are not, are bought up for the screen while still in proof-sheform. Magazine stories are contracted for before they appear In print. It is said that such, at first sight, unlikely material as Wells is to be used for the "The Outline of History screen, and it has even, somewhat jocularly, been suggested that either the telephone directory or Whos Who is next in line for picturization. Certain it is that the first basic need of every motion picture producer is good stories. Without that It Is foolhardy to go ahead. Stories replete with dramatic situations and human appeal are what the movie producers are hunting for, high, low and all die time. The situation is unique. On the one hand a vat number of people eagerly trying to write for the screen, and on the other hand scores of producers falling over each other In their Rnxiety to find good material. Yet for one amateur writer who succeeds, a thousand fall. Wherein lies the trouble? What Is the remedy? Of the multitude of people aiming at screen story success a big percentage have the desire, but lack the proper mental equipment to further It. Stilt, there must bo thousands of others who have that equipment Imagination, education and lei sure, and some others of the necessary qualifications. Of these, some are early discouraged by the difficulties of the task, and so fall by the way. while others persevere and yet fall to sell their scripts. This failure may be laid to one of two mala causes. Either behind that perseverance lies Insufficient talent, or perseverance is not accompanied by such adaptability to art as eventually to ferry the author across the line which divides the amateur from the skilled writer. For after all, as one producer points out, what reason Is there amawhy the raw amateur should succeed as an teur? Except for an occasional Instance of satire gefilus, It Is only after the amateur has practiced and practiced and actually progressed beyond the amateur stage that success can come, which la true of practically all lines of endeavor, not mereRupert Hughes, highly sucly of screen writing. cessful author and now prominent In screen writing, Is reported to have collected hundreds of printed rejection slips before he succeeded in selling a story to an editor. Had he been possessed of less perseverance the world might never have heard of him ns a writer. Except in an occasional case, the days when eft moments of leisure could bring quick success are gone by. Scenario writing Is a business requirbusiness If you ing ns much attention as any other are to achieve success, but do not misunderstand me. If you cannot sell stories wrought out la sideline time, that does not mean you cannot practice in that tigift. Rut dont expect to sell until practice and study have finally equipped you to cross the amateur line. One great shortcoming, as I see it, in amateur writers for the screen Is a genera! tendency to action of a diveylook the necessity for constant rect or symbolic nature. They send their characters on long journeys while they describe minute dclaila of preparation and Incidents en route which do nothing to further the movement or help build toward the climax. The result of such material In picture form would be extremely draggy and uninteresting. situaFrequently, again, they have but a single is Inteuded what build to it seize upon but tion to form five or six reels of picture material. That situation Is perhaps unusual, or it may at least But that possess Rome slight element of novelty. Is not enough. In the great majority of scripts by amateurs the characters are overdrawn, and consequently are grotesque or inconsistent with the typically human instincts and with the things that motivate and actuate the average person. Ia other words, fafl ft costlopoo. they ll Of being lifelike, and so the theft Maybe your trouble has been that you have tried to sell comedies Guy Bates Post, who, in turning from a long and highly successful stage career to motion pictures, has read scores of manuscripts, says: The main trouble with amateurs Is that they persist in trying to write about things they do not know. The sales girl sends me a scenario of society life; a bookkeeper tries to sell me a tale of adventure In foreign lands! And so It goes. We seek for romance even In our writings. We ourselves may find It thus, but we cannot bring it to others in this fashion. To be interesting one must be convincing, and we cannot be that unless we really know the life of which we write. But there Is a trend both on stage and screen for Intimate stories, and there Is the field for the amateur scenario writer of average experience. Another great fault with would-b- e writers Is that their imagination Is extensive rather than intensive, with the result that the action Is scattered from pole to pole or even to a locality as unfamiliar as Mars. Many an amateurs story would take two years to plcturize." Richard Barthelmess finds that In his experience nine out of every twelve stories he rends are wholly lacking In one real Idea, one original theme. It Is said that there Is nothing new under the sun, therefore the greater Is the necessity to give some novel twist to an old theme. Without that your story Is pretty sure to be returned with tlie Mr. Barthelmess descenario editors regrets. clares that so much space is taken up with unnecessary and wasteful side issues, not to say dialogue, that In most cases any real meat a story might have Is burled under useless encumbrances and so out of juxtaposition to the central story that no editor will wade through It, and y?ur manuscript comes back. 1 do not believe," says this star, that any amateurs story requires more than 1,000 words to set it forth and tell Its plot Leave the working eut to the continuity man and the director. The Idea Is what counts. I have heard writers complain that after their story has come back they have recognized In a later picture Just the sort of action or scene they originally submitted, and these writers have beeo angry to the point of suggesting, nay, even of accusing, the studio people of the theft of their ideas. Aa a matter of fact, the explanation la that what the author imagined original with hlmaelf or herself was nothing of the kind. Unconsciously and unwittingly, It may be, there has remained In their minds the unrecognized memory of some scene they have seen la a since forgotten picture and unconThus sciously It Is reproduced In the scenario. the plagiarism attributed to the studio lay rather nuthor. Plagiarism, unconwith the would-b- e scious or otherwise, sticks out all over them, says Colonel J. E. Brady, editor of Metro Pictures corporation, who declares that the number of good stories does not begin to meet the demand for them. "The trouble Is that 90 per cent of the scripts received haven't a grain oi originality In them." Joseph M. Scbenck Is another producer of not ers. Yet the reason for this seems rather obvious. If a man advertises for original plans for a country home and a hundred different plans ore received, DO per cent being submitted by amateurs and 1( home builders, there Is cent by professional per little doubt that the accepted plans would be from one of the 10 per cent." While among the plans submitted by the amateurs there doubtlessly would be found many exceptional Ideas, yet the individual plans on the whole could hardly be expected to meusure up to those submitted by the professionals. Turning for a moment from the producers point of view, let us see what Is the newspaper critics angle on desirabilities in screen stories. If what I quota may seem to smack more of production than of writing, there Is, too, a lesson for the author whose business, after all, It Is, rather than the directors, to supply the situations. Many of the scenes have been made meaningful as motion pictures." (I quote the critic of a leading For InNew York newspaper on a recent film.) stance, there Is one In which Henry Garnett, knowing that he must die soon, sits listening to an Inexorable clock. It ticks and ticks, counting off the seconds of his life. Finally, in futile desperation, he seizes the pendulum and stops It, but as he holds the inetal bar, a phantom pendulum behind It Here 1b comswings on. Here Is cinematography. a within picture !" plete expressiveness There It Is la a nutshell. A real Idea, logically and simply worked out without needless discussion, directly and clearly, to an Inevitable conclusion. Therein lies one way where your story wont come back. Hope Hampton, whose latest starring vehicle Is "Light In the Dark," tells me that the reason so many scenario writers fail Is because they cannot or do not put themselves in (he place of the and! enee. In other words, they cannot property visualize their work. It should always be borne In mind, says this star, that thought and Impression can be effected only by action. Perhaps the ideal film would be one In which there were no subtitles at all. I do not know whether that could be, but the next best thing is where the action Is so clear, so convincing, and the conclusion so Inevitable that only a minimum number of subtitles Is necessary." After all, you cant blame the producer, even though lie may err In sending your story back. Its different with, say. a magazine editor, and even he sends stuff back lots of It. The magnztne editor may, with not very disastrous resmKs, use a mediocre or even a poor story, provided he makes sure his magazine contains at the same time two or three good teles. The strong stories will carry the weak. But with the photoplay producer It Is very different. All hie eggs, so to speak, are In one banket. Ta accepting a story, or rather In making a picture from R. he risks the possibility of losing something Nke $100,000. It makes him more than careful of his choice. You can, however, he practically sure of one thing. If your story has real and full screen merit and you keep It going visiting long enough It will wUl come a stop coming back at last. In Its place check. More writers than one, by sticking eternally at it and refusing to quit, have ultimately sold their reproduct, for it is the very act of writing and of owl a makes professional that ultimately writing an amateur. Dear Mias Brooks, I am a girl of fourteen. I weight about lH lbs, and am I feet toll. I have light brown hair and blue eyrn. Will you pleas suggest : hew shall I do my balr and what oolert should 1 wwr? Thanking you in advnnea, I remain PRUDENCE. Idaho. You should wear bright blues, rose shades, light browns, black and violet shadeo nicely. Prudes oo, and I can suggest n prettier style ttw to arrange tbs kalr softly around th few ioehas from tho head and fua braid na alas leaving the earled end free, fastm with jf your fao Is mere long than round puff it oot across top and back of bead and fasten Ughtly ales to th bead, instead of braiding, and still leavs the surled and free. Dear Mbs Brooks, I have enjoyed your corner for soma time and would liko you to answer asm ouaotlaaa far me. (1) I It proper for a boy to bold girl's arm while walking on th streets? (2) I, It proper for a boy and girl to go to church together T (I) Upou being introduced to a boys mother what should yeu d and say? Is It proper te shake heads with elder penes whan you are Introduced to? Hoping I am not too mach bother. I remain, t AN ARDENT ADMIRER, Idaho. man to take never proper for b It (1) arm. Th lady takes to maaa arm. n Indy when on toe street at night (2) Yas. Quite proper. (I) A perfectly proper and formalts way for a lady to receive aa Introduetlon to bow elightly, smile pleasaatlp and repeat the asms af the psrsea lateedueed. If you wbh to bo Ires formal It b perfectly proper to offer your band, though the alder lady usually sffars her' first. plainly in pen and X&A-JZ- ink to - have deep lobes ; the black oak leaves have lobes ; the red oak broad, bristle-shape- d bristly-pointleaf lobes are irregularly-tootheand triangular in shape and they point forward more than outward. Oaks live to be very old, two or three centuries being the usual life of an oak. (2) The shade tan. biscuit and fawn, light greens, pink and rose shades, greenish blues and yellows should be becoming to you. (3) The aide part, with hair severely marcelled or in soft fluffiness, brought well out in front of the cars and done low in th back ar the most prominent features of tne popular style, not differing greatly from th styles of tha year past. (4) Have the hair you had cut off, made Into the National bob curl and place this about your bobed hair, ia about all you can do with bobbed hair. (5) Books, fountain pens, pencils, knives, cufl links, leather bill books, all make suitable gifts for men. (6) Your sixth question I will answer later, aa space will not allow any more answers. Please read rules before writing again. Your name has been forwarded to Bill! and Bob. d, Dear Miss Brooks, constant reader of Just Between I am You and Me, few questions I and have would like to ask. I hop I am welcome in your so ay corner. My questions are: (1) I was born Dee. 25, 1908. What ia my lucky day, month and number? (2) Could you pleat tell tne the address of Burk Jones and Hoot Gibson? Thanking you In advance, I am. A GIRL FROM DIXIE (1) 8s anssrtr to Inquisitive Girt, St for your birthday reading. (2) Buck Gsorg Jones address is. Fox Studios, Western Ave.. Hollywood. Calif, and Hoot Gibson. Universal Studies, Universal City, Cmif. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been reading your corner for some time and have a few questipna I wish you would answer for me. I am a boy of fifteen ) ar of ago, and have carried a ever since I was big enough to hold It up : and as ths world Is getting more civilized I would like to know whether to go on carrying my gun ar lay It aaide, take off my flannel shirt and chaps, and go with tho rest of the world. WYOMING GUNMAN. No, I beg of you dont do it I We dont want to lose the really, truly, cowboy (I do not like th word gunman.) We may need you to take care of these ugly gunmen who ara handling their guns and pistols so recklessly whole-souled, d of late. The cowboy ia a joy and as refreshing aa a shower in August. You are moving with the times. I am sur. in regard to education and mental enlightenment, and that is what counts. Arent eowboys still needed In the cow country in wonderful way to live. which we live? Its Isnt it? Write agaia and tell me all about it. and if you dont really feel aa I do about th cowboy. Dear Mist Brooks, I would like to ask you a few questions, and I would be pleased If you would answer them. (1) I was born Dec. 18th. What is my lucky number, day, and month? (21 Could you pleas giv me th address of Gloria Swanson. and RichMary Pickford, Rudolph Valentin ard Barthelmess? (t) I am fourteen years la It proper for mo to write to boy friends in th town where I was raised? I thank you for this advice la advance. I am, AN INQUISITIVE GIRL. St George. Ub (I) For one wh was born in December, the goldea rod I the flower, color gold, red and green, Thursday is the day and February and Jan the months. (2) Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino may be addressed at the Calif. Lanky Studios, Vine Sb Hollywood. Richard Barthelmess In gar of Inspiration Pictures, 665 Fifth Ave, Now York City, and at tha Piekford-FalrbanMary Pickford Studios, Hollywood, Calif. (8) If the boys ar old friends of to family It would be quite proper for you to write tkm of age. Dear Mias Brooks: This Is my first attempt to enter the Corner, and I hope I will be welcomed. My questions ar these: (1) I was bora on December 24. What is my lueky day, color, flower and months ? (2) Which do you think the bed for a girl to enter teaching or stenography? I have soma Inclination for teaching, but stenography seems so much easier. (3) I haw How can I improve a rather bad disposition. it? Little things irritate me so. I have a lll. rather quick temper and am very stubborn. I toy t be pleasant sometimes but It doesnt saeas to kelp any. Wishing sucees to you and year Corner. Your sincerely, BOOKWORM. Idaho. Yeu ar welcome. (1) For thmo born In December Thursday ia said to bo their lucky day ; February and June toe months; flower, gold-earocolors, geld, red and green. (2; This depends so much apon the position you are ths better fitted for. If you are diagnosing your ease of disposition correctly. It would seem Dear Miss Breeha, that It would eliminate the thought of teachI an. very fatoreatd lu year ssw earner ing, for if there is en position whioh require Just Between You and Me." I hep ypu will more patience and sweetness to fill successanewer my ones tiers. They are: (I) I was fully. than another, it surely is that of teachbera Aug. 29th. What b my luoky number, ing. Serving th public in any capacity reme patience, and a desire to day and month? (2) Could you plees sead ? quire amiability, plees. to be at all successful. The world i too address of Bruce Gordon and Ruth Rotaad If general has little us or regard for the irri(I) Doe It affect your eyes? In after years table. surly. Impatient, unwilling to plea-- s plusk year eye-broperson; and they always have difficulty in A GIRL FROM DIXIE. St Georg Utoh. Sun-s- -, obtaining a position and still more difficulty (1) Your lucky dsy b ouppoeed to bo la retaining it Now while you are young months January end October, your may be moulded end year sol re. red and habts and disposition dower the meralnr-gler- y into th beautiful and lovable, ia the time te and green. (2) Bruce Cordeas addrea b, 109 build a character which will be a blessing to Park Piece. Venice, Calif. Ruth lUiwad. Hal yeavselfand very on you come Incontact with. I d Calver CMr. Calif. Roach Ties, place, or environment will not overcome not knew I am sura I have saver heard trait af character such aa you describe, with-aa- t to desire and effort on your part; as Bam- - Miss Breeha, whoa I aszt bear from you I an sur you will and toee have I eiltoea. have mad the asseasary effort and era win-nia- r. b toe first (Sea answer to Dora.) .1 wish you a hwp I mat welcome. I read yew earner every wndk and mlo a greet deal f knowledge free bright sad happy Now Year. 1 R. and krv to read yewr eleeer eaawoy. tee a few toeettoae which I would Mk Cowgirl (Testes) Idaho; to Thanks for yew kind wards and also you yeu to a sewer tor me. (11 Ik Bietory of Oak and A ewe leof? That b my symbol In offar. Band ns your name, Texas Cowgirl, My hab b lark brew and sad wo wW see what we oaa do. too toe Htoa me my eye am abo dark. eouM yew toll weald hapreve my leeks? PT ID O tor highest market price for fare and what aoler dm KJ IXJ IsMa writ tor a price list or ship to Wkat b the latest hi kslr dree teg? We can make ap your fwrs and hides mtp eaa bobbed hab be fined to look aa (4) Hww - II) What would be a peed and ribas, evarcoats or other parmmta. Write Ad fi, HI , suitable Christmas Gift fer a yean Ston? AmsVaa Riic A Fur Co, Farriers & Tinner Than blag yea 1 advene. Salt Lake City I M West South Temsptn TOOT1, Bedford, Wye. to kaew Indeed glad BUSINESS COLLEGES Thanks Toots. I am yen are benefited by our earner. (l)The mk tree has fer sgm boon Ihe symbol of sturdlnos U B. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. end strength. It la th aoora which dim School f Efficiency. All commercial branch. k from the other trees. The Catalog free. 69 N. Main St.. Salt Lake City. tlngulaha th aoern is th oak seed. Th tree grow slowly BUTTONS PLEATING and do not yield aeorm until filer srre twenty oaks of Amorioan tpeelcs old. Among years Aecordian. Sid, Box Pleatln.1, Homstitshlnto the noblest la th white mk. to leaves ! Battens, Buttonholes, Rid Corsot Parish lobes'. fi near-shape- d The or pound bear wfeMi , 45 K. F.m4irr. 81? Leks City. leaves v and oak art mossf-rutong very bur or yl Tm 9tdt, a. Dll () () ed r |