Show Film Fables By DON ALLEN C 1923 New Y York ikE Eve Evening ning World press Publishing Company Once Upon a Time Timea a a Hardene Hardened Hard Hard- ene ened Cinema Critic took took his Typewriter Typewriter In Hand and Lowed as How he was Going to Write a Scenario as WAS VAS a ario For years he had been so Busy BUy Telling Directors and Producers what to do and what hat Not to Do that he never up to this Point had Found Time to Speak for tor himself Im rm E Eye Weary e- e Weal he to Himself Sezze of all this Hokum Hokum Hokum Ho Ho- kum and Ordinary Film Stuff So Here Goes for a story of ot Real Life Lite And for Nearly a a. Half Hour I his Facile Fingers Flew over oyer the Peck Peck Machine and wh when n nhe he had pulled the Last Sheet from his Machine he Heaved a Great Sigh of Relief He told his Next of Kin that thata a Masterpiece Masterpiece Master Master- piece Had Been Born In a few tew days he received his Script back with Advice from a Film Expert to Put a Forest Fire Here and a Flood lood Scene There a Girl Girl being Almost Tossed from a Cliff in such and such And Above a place alL aU concluded the Expert Have Hay Mother Iother put a Lamp In the Window Window Window Win Win- dow for your Final Fadeout Some Doctors Still Declare the Critic Died of Heart FailUre Failure Fail Fail- ure tire others Maintain that Grief killed him but the majority Stick to the Suicide Theory MORAL Real MORAL Real life Is only for News Reels |