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Show Photoplay Answers , H G Tho rejection slip jou send Is tho A. lcgular form U3ed by tho Universal Com-piny Com-piny It !b a polite rejection, and tho kind that is sent to all writers who send in pla'3 that the company cannot use. It means nothing noth-ing outside of tho fact that this particular play has been turned down Tho same jlay might sell at tho next place you sond It, and It might even be taken by this company after a while. There are many things that cause a rojec-tlon. rojec-tlon. The play may not be tho type tho company com-pany Is making, Mioy may not have players suited to the parts, or they may have mado a play along "similar lines. Tho fdllors of tho big companies get hundreds of plays a week. They can do no more than send a printed form of rejection. Do not allow a rejection slip of any kind to give you any worry. If you think you can writo and havo confidence In your work, keep right on. When a play comes back iend It out again; after It hag been out five or six times, read It oer, jou may seo a way of improving it. PS True happenings, as a rule, do not make good photoplays. Of course, everything every-thing Is based on reality. It might have happened, hap-pened, or It could happen, but most professional profes-sional writers do not baso their plays on things that have happened to them,. A prolific writer is novel at a loss for plotB, and the plots that are hatched right out of the brain incubator are tho very best kind Facts aro sordid things. Take any actual occurrence and analjro It, and you will And that It seldom has any story material ma-terial in It outside of ono baro Incident, and stories and plays must be Idealized, and you havo to take your true story and tw 1st it around to fit these conditions, and ou might just as well work on an Imaginary nlot and be done with it. It is more elastic and can be molded easier. Do not tell a studio editor that tho play you are sending Is a true story, or the story of your own llfo, or of one of your friends. It will not impress him in tho least. |