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Show : Anatomy of One I Reel Comedy I By RING LARDNE V To 'the Editor : In a recent letter I give my readers tbe story of a friend of mine name Joe Cooper that was not getting along so good in his regular job and finely began to take correspondence courses by mail in orher lines like short-story writeing and expert acct and cartoonist cartoon-ist and etc.. and after a wile he got so as he was knocking out close to 50 thousand per annum for his spare time. Wile theys si ill another field yet that Joe hasn't went in it and that is writeing photo plays and great big money is promised for good ones because be-cause god knows they are a rare bird and if they is some of my readers that finds trouble makelng both ends meet the other and could use a couple 1(H) thousand a year extra earned in their spare time, why here is tbe field to go into. You can pick up most any magazine and find a dozen ads of correspondence correspond-ence schools that iearr.s you how to write photo plays or movies as I have nicknamed them, but how are you going go-ing to know that the people that thus them schools has ever wrote a pbo'o play themselfs and for all as you know you may be paying your tuitions to a bird that ain't done anything all their life but pluck pimples off a putting green. So in order to protect my readers from these kind of vipers I have made it up in my mind to starl a school of my own along these lines and my qualifications qual-ifications is that 1 have wrote 2 photo plays and they both Hopped like the sure thing and my system of teaching will be to learn my pupils to write photo plays opposite to like I wrote. The big money in the screan gtme today lays in 1 reel comedys. The things that Is necessary In writeing 1 reel comedys is (1) a catchy title (2) a funny Idea (3) plenty of laughs (4) witty sub titles. As a sample of what will go and go big. the Ring School of Photo Play Writeing gives tbe following speciment of a 1 reel comedy. As a title for this picture we have chose "The Finny Tribe" which In itself it-self will knock them for a goal. Characters : GEORGE WOTTLE, a fishmonger (comedy lend) GERTRUDE WOTTLE, his wife, (comedy lead) MINNIE QUAGMITl, her rival (souhrette) AL SWAMP, a private detective (heavy comedy) BABY WOTTLE, the Wottle bahy (Juvenile) A Minister of the Gospel, Wottle'g clients, etc. Continuity : Scene 1 George is In his store sorting sort-ing fish. A client comes In nnd looks over the stock. Sub-title : "The customer cus-tomer asks for a flounder." George picks up a fish and litis the client in the eye with it, knocking him down. Sub-tillo: "1 guess that will flounder you." Another client conies In the store. Sub-title: "The customer asks for linnan had (lie, but George tells him he only keeps weal; fish." The client falls down and tears his trousers. . Scene 2 Gertie Is at home setting on the lounge and pulling superfluous huirs out of Bahy Woltle's bead. The telephone rings. Gertie goes to answer an-swer it. Suh-tltle: "The wrong number." num-ber." Bahy Wottle falls off the lounge and lands on his bean. Suh-tltle: "Oh. what a headache." Scene 3 George and Minnie are spooning in tbe hammock oil the Wottle Wot-tle porch. Genie comes out of thB house and catches them. Sub-title: "Caught In the act." The hninmocit breaks and the lovers set down suddenly sud-denly on the floor. Subtitle: "It couldn't of been a very good hammock." Scene 4 Gertie goes io Swamp's de-leclive de-leclive agency and hires Al Swamp io take up the case. Ai puts on his slides and starts out with Gertie. Sub-title: "The plot sickens." As they are leaving Al's office a swinging door hits them in Ihe eye and knocks them down. Suh-tltle: "In again, out again, Finncgan." Scene 5 George and Minnie nre spooning in the fish store. Minnie slops on a eel und falls down. Subtitle: Sub-title: "Minnie says Ikt eel slipped. George tells her she ought to wear rubber ones." Al and Gerlle come in the store and surprise the lovers George runs to a flsh box and sets on a perch." George tries to get down but falls and tears his trousers. Ai tries to lick him up hut slips on the slippery floor and tears his troosers. Sub-litle: "Al thinl.s theys more to he patched up than the marital affairs of tlte Wot ties." Scene 0 They all go to the Wottle riorne. Minnie ioses her Interest In Geotge anil falls in loe wilh Al. They dei ide to get married. Sub-tille: "Al asks the fair Minnie to become his bride. She says O. K." Al summons u milliner and him ami Minnie are married with the Wottles as witnesses. Siib-tiiie: "The knot Is lied." Scene 7 The party adjourn to the dining room where a fish breakfast Is servtd. Sub-title: "Loudon Bridges Is railing down." In the midst of the hilarity. I:..hy U'otile chokes on a fish bone and croaKs, Subliile: "I'.ai Jelly h-h. No hones." There yoa have got your oatehy title, yoitr funny i'!'-a. your laii-hahle sit aa i ious and your humorous sub titles Further and more the eon i-trudion is perfect you might say 1 .c, t'T t,f kivli Bj-IeJ.cn'.C. uv ) |