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Show I (LETinERS FROMA I. I ! CORRESPONDENCE I I SCHOOL ACTOR ! By A H GIEBLER i H s: EAR DAVE You wl" ricX-cr B V 1 guess what has happened H I 1 out hero. Somebody Is B H LZ. going to get nmirlcrl! It H m J 1 wu8 a lucky thing I B V I bought that plain busl- H I ness uult llkp I was telling H ff r v you about, becauto all H m tnem big movlo actors at the bazaar wore them. H The wedding v;lll bo in a movlo play, Dave, Bj B but It will bo a sure enough wedding with a H j Bute enough English pteacher. H M fc have got a publicity man now since Mr. B D Meicel LanBlng sent over to "London, England, H and got all of that money and put It ln tho 1 I Occidental Company, Ho writes up plcccu about us movie actors and gotB them put ln the paper. Ho wroto a piece about Lucy and Mr. Lansing, -fe Bald ho was the son of a English carl, which Is tho uatne as being a congressman In this country, only thoy don't loie their Jobs and havo to Hpond a lot of money to got them bade Uko American onrln 'do. The publicity man wrote a lot of stuff about him being the son of a oarl and coming ovor here to uct ln tho movies to olevato them and to work for ait's tako. I am fixing up a HUiprlso for Lucy and them kl'li. I will tell you about It whan it comes off When that publicity man heard about tho wddlng, ho enld, "That Is the kind of Btuff I am looking for. "vVrlto a play around a wed-Qlng wed-Qlng and pull It off In tho studio, and we will got on the front paaa of every newspaper in the country with It." , J. J. Murphy says, "That means midnight oil for me," because he knowed ho would havo to stay up till midnight writing that scenario, and mo and J. J. and Bennle SteinbuBh. we stajed up nearly all night writing It. J. J asked Mabel did she want to be married ln a tragedy or a comedy, and sho said, "There will bo enough tragedy after wo begin to find out each other's faults. Make It a comedy, and make It a scream." Here Is how J J. wrote that scenario. You remember It and It will help you to write them, maybe. He walked around the room, which was in a corner of tho studio, and says to Bcnnlo. "Here is tho plot. Take It doun. 'Jako and Jessie want to get married. Father says no. They elope in an auto old man chasos them they stop at preacher's house proacher la not at home. Cut back shows old man chasing after them In machine. They leave preacher's housesee old man coming In tho distance. Motor cop stops them for speeding. Jack bribes him, telling him to arrest old man and take him to police station. They stop at another an-other houBC, go ln. Cut back shows motor cop arresting old man. Back to the preacher's house reception room Jack and Jessie waiting. Colored Col-ored mhn comes ln Jack tells him, 'we want to get man led, toll tho preacher.' Colored man Eays, 'I am the preacher.' Mabol faints " Then J. J. pulled his hair and Bays, "Tear that up, it's no good." "That's good stuff." "Bonnie Bald, "what's tho matter with It? Keep It going." 9 "Who's doing this," J. J. asked him, "you or me? I sot them ln the colors d preacher's 1 house and can't go any further with them. Tear It up." Then J. J. pulled his hair again and held hit hand on his head and walked around the loom. "Watch genius burn," eays Bcnnlo. "Shake-sptarc "Shake-sptarc acted Just that way when ho wiotc Macbeth." Mac-beth." "Shut up, you bonehead," J. J. j.cllcd at him, "I've got a good Idea." Ho started to come over to the table where we was working and somebody had left a lug made out of a lion's skin on tho floor, and J. J. stumbled on It and fell down and hurt the funny bono of his elbow. "Where Is that Idea," aays Bonnie, "I am waiting." "I Just now broke my funny bone," J. J. growled, "I can't write no comedy" Then ho looked at tho Hon skin rug. "Who tho liellfirc left that In here for me to fall down on anyway," ho said. "Tako it away, Tom." Mr. Lansing has got a cousin out here that has got a fine big house. Ho boards with him. and tho cousin wanted them to havo tho wedding wed-ding In his house, but J. J. says they couldn't without taking a regular electric light factory along, and the coutln says, "well then, havo It out, on the big front porch," and that is what they will do. Well, I will toll you all about tho wedding next week, Dave. We are going to have lots of fun and lots of things to eat, and after It Is all over there will bo a reception and a lot of movie actors from other studios will bo there, and wo will all have a big time, and I will havo that now suit on and I am going to fill my pockets with cakes and things to eat for Lucy's little cripplod Bister when I go homo, Goodby, TOM. |
