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Show Author of "Three Week9 Learn F at in Studio When Elinor Glyn sets about learning learn-ing anything, she overlooks nothing. Not ao long ago, she arrived at the W'est coast studio of Famous PJayera-Lasky, PJayera-Lasky, there to start her career as a writer of original stories for the screen. On her arrival, ohe admitted ahe knew practically nothing about motion pictures. Jesse I ijutky, on his trip, to Kn gland, had won her over to the acreen ; ahe was on the ground to write stories for Paramount, the first a starring vehlrle for Gloria Swanson entitled "The Great Moment"; her first duty, she felt, was to learn all that she possibly could about motion pictures. pic-tures. Hhe studied the screen art from every ev-ery angle on the set. In the projection projec-tion room, in the carpenter shop, the wardrobe, the art room and the laboratory. labora-tory. She wrote for the screen. Rhe acted for the screen. And now she haa directed di-rected for th screen! A test" was to be taken of a young actor without experience but said by his sponKors to be promising material. Madam Glyn wrote the short sketch to be uaed In the "test. ' ami with Joseph Jo-seph lenahry he codlrected the actual ac-tual fllmtntr. while various Iasky studio stu-dio celebrities W. Somerset Maugham. Sir Gilbert larker and others looked on. "Vow If I only had some experience as a 'prop boy.'" Isughed the famous a ut horfss. "I would ft-el that my motion mo-tion picture education was fairly complete." |