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Show ' AMSWE1S TO SCEEEiM FAMS Sign your name, but give title to uso In column. Address all queries to Photoplay Editor, care of this paper. Tj C Paulino Bush has not been working i y plctuies for tho last few months, and Sydney Ay res has been putting in his tlma directing other players rather than playing himself. He probably will be soon again In pictures pic-tures Boon. He Is still with the Universal, at Unlveiflul City, Cal.. and Miss Bush's mail would be forwarded to her from that studio. A SUBSCRIBER-lf you huvo been reading this page for any length of time you must surely havo scon Ella Hall's name mentioned occasionally, nsf well as Robert Leonard's, and you will undoubtedly ace thorn mentioned again, Mlbs Hall has Just passed her 10th birthday, Is 1 inch moro than C feet In height, has light hair and blue eyes, and dances like a fairy. TAK1E Holon Gibson lb tho girl who plays In Kalcm's Hazards of Helen, and Helen Holmes, who formerly played in the Hazards. Is the heroine of TIip Girl and the Game. They are two separate and distinct girls. Miss Holmes Is marrlod to J. P. McGowan, who directs and takes part In the plays in which sho works. The cast for The Girl and the Game Is: "Helen," Helen Holmes; "Scagrue," George McDanlel; "Storm," Leo Maioney; "Spike," J. I' McGouan. V B. Leo D. Maioney was born at San Jose, Cal., and nas been In pictures for eight j ears. Before he went into pictures he worked on a ranch and became an expeit rider. He is 27 ycais old, and, as far as wo know, Maioney Is his real name A letter will reach him at the Signal studio, Santa Barbara, Cal. O ALENA, KAN. The reason you have not seen an announcement of the winners o.! the .Brains and Beauty contest Is becauso no such announcement has as yet been made, but you may begin to look for It some ttmo In May or thereabouts. There were so many contestants' contest-ants' that tho Judges had to postpono their decision In order to pass upon all the pictures and letters sent In. HK. Ruth Roland, who played the lead In Tho Red Circle, is with the Balboa Company, Com-pany, Long Beach, Cal. The Balboa Company made tho serial for Pathe. O ED Sorry, but we have no cast for either of the plays you mention. Many of tho Patho plays aro made in France, and when that is tho case we can very seldom obtain tho names of the players ni RS. Jt. Cannot find any record of an actor tVl Dy the name of Mat von Belts, or Do Betta. If you can send tho name of a play In which ho has appeared we may be able to get a lino on him. p EX. The principal players In Tho Exploits A of Elaine were Pearl "White, Arnold Daly and Crelghton Hale, In Tho Million Dollar Mystery were Florence La Badio, James Cruzo and Sidney Bmcy. Herbert Rawllnson Is still with the Universal Company, Universal City, California. " OLLIKSVILLE, ILL. Thero woro twelve - episodes to Sungaree and thero will be fourteen to The Iron Claw. The Identity of the "Laughing Mask" In tho serial Is being kept a profound secret and will not bo revealed until tho last chapter. Richard Travers Is with Essanay, 1383 Argyle street, Chicago, 111. Alice Joyco and Maurlco Costcllo aro resting. O J. William and Dustln Farnum are broth- ers, and both havo been on tho regular stage since they wore children, as their father was an actor. William ia with tho Fox Company Com-pany and Dustin with tho Pallas-Paramount. I Photoplay Aimwif EOLIA, MO. We know nothing of the con-corns con-corns you ask about. Thero are no companies compa-nies producing photoplays In SU Louis. It is hotter hot-ter to deal with the studios dlroct. If you havo a good play, any producing company will read it, and, if it Is what thoy want, they will mako you an offer for It. No ono can sell your plays as well as you can sell them yoursolf. All you have to do Is to send your manuscript to tho "production department" of tho studio selected and wait until they mako you an offer or return tho play. Tho Universal Company, 1600 Broadway, will consider a play In synopsis form. While a synopsis syn-opsis that accompanies a fully developed scenario scena-rio should not run moro than 250 words to tho reel, the synopsis when sent alone may be longer. long-er. But mako them as short as possible. Do not attempt any flno writing. State tho essential points of your story In simple words and leave the action and development to the studio. If you mako a complete scenario, however, tho action must all bo written in and tho entire play as complete as you can make it MD , Cairo, and B. A. S . Bloomington It is not possible to glvo complete direc tions for writing a photoplay. You should bo able to get books with sample sconarlos from the public library In your city, which will glvo oua general Idea about development and construction. con-struction. Read answer to Eolla about writing plays In synopsis form. Do not wrlto your play in the form of a story, with the heading for tho picture to be thrown on tho screen. Conversation Conversa-tion Is not used except In leaders, or sentences Hashed on tho screen, and then sparingly and only when necessary for the development of tho btory. Tho names of tho characters must be put at tho head of your scenario, Just the same as tho ca3t of characters In a stage play Then, as you go along, you refer to tho character by the namo given him In the casL Hero Is a llttlo bit of action ac-tion that may help you. Suppose you have a story like this: "John," a poor young man, loves "Mabel Smith, his employer's daughter. They want to marry. Tho old man says no and fires "John," who gets another Job and finally, after many troubles, gets the girl. Scene 1. Office Smith at desk. "John" taking letter as "Smith" dlctatos. "Mabel" enters, kisses father, gives "John" a sly glance. "John" looks pleased. "Smith" tells "John" he may go. "John" goes to door, hesitates. "Mabel," after making sure that her father Is not looking, throws him a kiss. Scene 2. Another office, matched to first sceno. "John" enters from "Smith's" ofilcc, looks happy, hap-py, seats himself at desk, takes out photograph, photo-graph, gazes at It lovingly. "Mabol" enters. "John" Jumps up, takes her hand. She puts her finger to her lips, points to other room. "John" makes love to hor. asks her to marry him. "Mabel" "Ma-bel" says yes. tells him to ask father. "John" is nervous, fixes tio. slicks back his hair, walks to door In determined manner, loses his nervo. "Mabel" laughingly shoves him through door, all but closes door, peeps through crack. Scene 3. same as 1. "Smith" at desk. "John" enters, hesitates a moment, then tells "Smith" in manly fashion he wants to marry "Mabol." "Smith" Jumps up, storms, says no, pounds his flats on the desk. "Mabel" runs In room, pleads. "Smith" will not listen, orders "John" from room. "Mabel" weeps. This Is telling a story In action. There Is no need for a blnglo word to be spokon by any ono. In tho first place, the audlenco gets tho Idea that "Smith" Is tho big boss becauso ho occupies occu-pies the big desk. "John" Is tho employe, since ho Is In an Inferior position. It Is plain that "Mabel" Is his daughter becauso she comes In and kisses him. Her actions with "John" shows that thoy are In love. "When he asks her to marry him thoy talk In lovers' language, that Is understood everywhere and when "John" asks hor father and the father bangs his fist on tho desk there Is no mistaking his refusal. Photoplays are written after this mnnnor. Tho story la told by tho action of the players, and tho wrltor must contrive action that will tell tho story. If you cannot do this, you cannot wrlto a photoplay. GA. M. Books on photoplay writing will not teach you how to wrlto plays, but they will give you valuable information about the construction of your scenario. All of the authoritative author-itative books on the subject havo sample scripts, and tho writer can gain an Idea of how a play-must play-must bo constructed by studying these samples. The ability to find plots and to dovclop thern and to make tho characters move around In the story In a human and convincing manner must como from tho writer himself. Ho must live and feel tho story himself. Photoplay writing is far moro difficult than story writing. In tho story you can explain any motlvo your character may have In your own words; on the screen the story Is told In action alone. Your character, Instead of talking your story, must walk it, run It, Jump It, fall off bridges any way to register the story with tho aiidlcnc and it must be logical and within keeping with the ordinary action of people In real life. i -"" " J ,u ,l ' ' Tl !- I. i, i u .... , jrSsf, 3? ONStDER the movie vinam. f Ho is the hardest worked and the least loved and tho j j least appreciated man in tho cast of any play. It is no A great trick for an actor to V SI bo a hero. His work Is all cut out for him by the author au-thor who wrote the play. He always happens along at the proper moment to save the girl or upset the villain's carefully laid plans. Tho actors In the "good" parts know that they are pleasing- hundreds of thousands of people peo-ple who will see tho picture, and If thoy are os-tra os-tra good and extra appealing that people will go to the manager of tho theater and ask him to get moro plctuies of tho same kind, and this rj? means moro popularity for tho player and more salary. Of course the villain always gets a good salary'. sal-ary'. The studios appreciate his work If tho public pub-lic does not, but he never sots very popular and no one loves him. No romantic girl ever looks at his pictures and exclaims, "Oh, I could Just love him ta death!" No one asks for his picturo. No ono writes to tho studio or tho photoplay editor and wants to know how old ho is, If he Is married, if his hair Is naturally curly or does t he use something'. No one evor wants to know how ho HkeB his breakfast eggs cooked does ho want them straight up or turned over? Not a soul Is concorned about tho color of his eyes. Movio villain work Is the. hardest of all acting. Tho regular stage bad man has words to help register his cussodness. There Is the lowand Insinuating tones he uses as ho urges tho honest hon-est young man to falsify the books and play the races. There aro tho hard and cruol words to say when he turns tho aged couple out of houso and home, tho sneering threat when he waves the incriminating "papers" In tho face of tho wayward wlfo and domands blackmail as tho price of his silence. The movie villain has none of theso helps. He must register his villainy by looks alone, by the movemonts of his facial muscloa and his eyes. Tn spite of tho fact that tho public does not appreciate tho villains, thoy aro very necessary' to tho play- If it were not for tho villain, the A, hero would show up very small; indeed, there ' would be nothing for him to do; he would Just marry the girl in tho first rcol and all would bo over, Many of tho best actors working before tho camera aro cast for the villain's part, and many actors prefer that kind of a part becauso it ;glves them a broader opportunity to show tholr art. In tho picturo above, which is a good villain scene,John Rolnhard is speaking in movie villain vil-lain language and doing1 a very artistic piece of work. If you could see tho play you could almost hear him saying; "I'll win hor yot and get tho money her rich old undo wll leave her when he dies, and mako ducks and drakes of it In no tlmo." Miss Courtot and Mr. Rolnhard. who posed for the picture, which is taken from a Gaumont photoplay called Feathcrtop, aro both well known to the movie world. Mr. Rolnhard Is a celebrated screon villain and always plays the heavy parts. Ho I3 a true artist in every sonse of tho word, for while he Is the mildest of men away from tho studio, he is an accomplished villain vil-lain of tho best, or worbt, typo when tho play calls for that sort of a character. j ' Marguerite Gabrlello Courtot. to glvo her full name, is a well-known star on tho Mutual program. pro-gram. Sho was born In New York, on August -0, nlnoteon years ago. Sho was educated at a girls school In New Jersey, and took a final pol- ' shlng in Lausanne, Switzerland. Miss Courtot s a very handsomo girl, and beforo sho worked T in pictures was a model for Harrison Fisher, the fj artist. . fl She went Into moving pictures with tho Kalom JM Company when vcry young, and was featured In mM The Ventures of Marguerite, and won a larg-" H following in that serial She is of French ol (V traction, weighs 110 pounds, has chestnut hail, green eyes, likes tennis, and loves ice cream. , Ef |
