Show Geo V. V Hobart to Write For Lasky Players Playe s- s George V. V Hobart lobart author of a number of successful plays and dramatizations has been engaged by the Famous Players Players-Lasky corporation cor cor- n to write original photoplays photoplays photoplays photo photo- plays exclusively for Paramount and stars The acquisition acquisition tion of or Mr Hobart by a motion picture concern is sIgnificance significance significance sig sIg- sig- sig as it points the desire of photoplay producers to obtain the services of or playwrights of or repute Though there have been adaptations adaptations adaptations of plays of many of ot the most successful writers of the present and of the past not a great many playwrights have haye written expressly express express- ly y for the screen the exceptions being George MIddleton Beulah Marie Dix and Charles Kenyon The addition of Mr Hobart to this list is therefore an important one By his creation of the famous Dinkel Dinkelspiel spiel stories tories which were afterward translated to the vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville yule stage stag and and the John Henry Heury stories which were later staged and played by the late Dan Daly Mr Hobart won a reputation for cleverness which has been substantiated substantiated substantiated sub sub- by his lila more recent recent- recent recent-en en- en deavors He will be remembered as the author of or Experience a modernized version of the old morality plays as the author of Sally in Our Alley The iThe Candy Shop Moonlight Mary and Our Mrs McChesney which he wrote in collaboration with Edna Ferber This seasons season's Follies owes its clever libretto to Mr Ho Ho- bart George V. V Hobart Is a native of Nova Scotia and achieved his early early ear ear- ly Iy fame as a newspaper man It was as a reporter that he wrote his Dinkelspiel and John Henry Henry Henry Hen Hen- ry stories which paved the way for his entrance upon the stage |