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Show MOVIES FEATURE ! THE "REAL LIFE" "Real life is the only source to look to for plots," asserts Robert Welles Ritchie, the author of the new- screen series "The Girl From Frisco," which I features Marin Sais and True Board- man. 1 Indeed, In Author Ritchie's case it ! is not necessary to go beyond his own experiences In soeking material for exciting comances. But few writers can boast of newspaper careers that have carried them clear around tho globe, and into many of its plctures- que and hidden nooks. I Mr. Ritchie began his career as a I cub reporter on the San Francisco j Call. The outbreak of the Russo-Ja ' pnnese War found him in the laud of Nippon or the New York Sun and 1 London Daily Telegraph and he spent I two years on the venturesome war I correspondence. i Returning to Now York to Join the i staf of the Sun, the later literary light was chosen to journey to Lab-J Lab-J rador and meet the triumphantly re-1 re-1 turning Peary. The Jeffeiies-John-! son fight at Reno, Nevada, which found the crack newspaper and literary liter-ary men of the country gathered, also found Mr. Ritchie grinding out picturesque pic-turesque "local color copy" for the Clin Mexico then called Mr. Ritchie, and he "covered" the exciting events leading up to the overthrow of Pro-firio Pro-firio Diaz for the Sun, being the only I newspaper man to accompany the fal- len dictator on his flight from Mexico , City to Vera Cruz and then to I Havana. It was on his return from this trip that the call of the literary field proved too powerful, and he gave up the newspaper life to give all his energies to the writing of fiction. Modest is Mr. Ritchie. "Why," he says, "Fiction is much easier than the newspaper work because all I have to do is develop plots from the true occurences oc-curences I have met. Every one of the fifteen stories in 'The Girl From Frisco' series is founded on some incident in-cident in the real life of the West, many of them having been big news stories' when I covered them for the San Francisco Call. Marin Sais and True Boardinan are just living over thrilling events that have really happened, and which are far more exciting than the widest imagination could create.1' |
