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Show 5 1 As to Photoplay "Writing j I HANNIBAL, MO. Your story. The Clutch or Morphlno, Is on a subject that has been dono so much that thoio would be little chanco of a tale Stories of that sort aro dramatic and they teach a good losson on tho evils of drugs, but there are few companies that will consider thorn unless you can glvo them vety striking and very oilglnal treatment. The synopsis you Biibmlt Is very much llko several that have been done. You llvo In a medium-sized city, which is tho " best place in the -world to find plotb Did you know that there is a young farmer that comes into town every week who is In lovo with the bright-eyed little girl who wears such pretty dre.sses and works In a dry goods &toro, and thai the farmer Is afraid of her arrald a ho would bo too fine, too "towny." and would not look at a rough fellow like him, when In reality tho little girl would like nothing bettor than to have the farmor bring hor a big rod apple and Invito her out to the farm, and after awhile, along about spring planting time, sho would bo perfectly willing to marry him? Forget the morphine business; write somo good heart interest stories with lots of action In them, and the first thing you know you will bo a full-fledged photoplaywrlght. ROBKRT C. KROLL wiltes that he Is working work-ing on a psychic drama, and asks about tho market for this class of plots. Psychic influence in-fluence and Its relation to life no doubt offers of-fers a field for tho photoplaywrlght, but finding find-ing a market for plays of that kind Is another thlnfiT. If tno Pla' 3 ftlonff ordinary lines and thoio is a psychic element in it that will add to tho otrcngth of tho play, and has a direct di-rect bearing on the plot and its development to a logical conclusion, well and gooa. Sut thero should be nothing obscuic, or too deep for tho lay member, and no attempt to promulgate a th,eory. You say your play shows tho attachment of earth-bound souls to material mate-rial things, That sounds Just aa though It might be a little bit abstruse, and above tho heads of tho averago audience, Remember, tho 1 ) photoplay audlonco harbors the professor and H tho coal heaver, people of all beliefs and con- H dltlons of lifo, and the film makers try to cater H to the pleasuro of one as much as to anotho. H The company you mention would be as good H a market as any to try your drama out on, but 1 wo would seriously advise you to put In more H timo on ordinary everyday plots. You eay you H can produce better plots than much of the stuff 1 produced Go to It. show us what you can jH do, and write again and tell us how you come H MARY" B. asks If a play addressed to tho H Mutual Corporation will reach all of the H studios operating under that name. Plas H should bo addressed to the different studioa jH comprising tho Mutual groUp. Send the comedy H with the 10 or 11 year old child to tho.Rellanco- H Majestlo Studios, 4500 Sunset boulovard, Holly- H wood, Cal. This concern has a company of H clcvor child actors. Carmen Do Rue. George H Stono, Billy Jacobs and several others. Your two-reel comedy will find a welcome tB hand at any of tho big studios if It is new and jH docs not havo too much slap stick in It. Theio H is a need for nice clean parlor comedies. Tho Jl matter of spacing your ypowrItlng Is not Im- JB portant. Somo directors like it double spaced, H others single. H & RTHUR COWAN The address of the Amer- jH A. lean Film Company in Chicago was tho IH ono used by the Diamond fiom tho Sky peo- jH plo at tho timo wo wroto the ai tlclo you haw jH in the paper. If thoy told jou to address them IH in Now Y'ork that Is evidently correct. As to jH your question about writing out tho suggestion jH for a sequel in scenario form, we do not know jH whether this Is permlssabio or not, tout slnco JH they limit you to a thousand -vords It would H hardly bo posblblo to do this. From- all tho IH statements made, thcy want a suggestion for JH a sequel to the present story, and it would be IH better to confine yourself strictly to tho rUlej H laid down by them. Wo would think that aj H story or "straight wording"- would bo best H |