Show WHITLOCKS WHITLOCK'S STORIES STORIES' WILL BE SHOWN ON SCREEN A noted producer lamented the other day in the public prints that more authors of experience were not writing for the movies The answer to this is they is-they they are that Is they are writing for the Universal Universal Uni Uni- i- i versal venial Film Manufacturing company A glance at some of the recent purchases purchases pur pur- chases of the scenario department proves this conclusively Among the more important acquisitions acquisitions are twelve stories from the pen of or no less a personage than Brand the eminent American minister minister min min- ister to Belgium whose conduct since the war in that unhappy country has reflected the greatest credit upon him and worthily upheld the best traditions of our country abroad Whitlock is isan isan isan I an advocate of ot municipal reform and a follower in the footsteps of the famous Golden Rule Tones Jones Ills Isis book The Turn of ot the Balance which was an earnest argument against capital punishment punishment punishment pun pun- created something of or a sensation sensation sensation sen sen- when it appeared The announcement announcement announcement an an- that his work will be dramatized for tho the screen is a promise of good things to come on the Universal ersal er- er sal program I Another important purchase Is that of a reel five play entitled Lady Lad I Eldone's Daughter from the pen of or Lois Lola Zellner Zenner whose recent release The Innocent Life was a successful Famous Players production This is intended to be bo a vehicle for the talents talents talents tal tal- of Violet the dainty little who is at present workIng working working work- work Ing at the Fort Lee Universal studio Another play has been bought from William Bradley so called mayor of ot Greenwich village which is entitled The Little Nomad Bradley is the theauthor theauthor theauthor author who captured a top price with which the Universal paid 1200 1200 in synopsis form Stephen F F. Whitman author of ot several several several sev sev- eral successful novels among them Predestined and Children of Hope has one of ot his stories now under production production production pro pro- at Universal City under the direction of Burton George and featuring featuring fea fea- turing Roberta Wilson It is a matter of or comment on the big stage that while the child chUd of ot his brain is being developed before the camera Whitman Whitman Whit Whit- man sits quietly without offering a suggestion unless he is asked for it The name of the novel in question is The Isle of Life and the tho scenario was prepared by Fred My Myton ton of the Universal staff The Yankees drafted Rawlings of Toledo Toledo To To- ledo and ant then thought better of ot it and let plan Cleveland talce take him hum on |