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Show LITTLE STORIES 1 , j Nell Marie Dace, 22. a Chicago stenographer, ste-nographer, has, ju&t received SlOU" ifrom Hugo Ballln for a screen story (she wrote. Actors who plav in motion pictures Inct far more publicity than the cre-jutors cre-jutors of the stoi-ioa. Hence these three cheers and a tiger for Miss Dace. She Is one of a countless number of atenographers ami others in common I pursuits v. ho arc seeking to and who actually contribute material for screen entertainment. Most stenographers seeking a place in the movies want to desert i heir typewriters for make-up box s That, according lo a popular conception con-ception fostered by press agents who! tell about the "past stenographical J careers of present stars. In a recent walk along Riverside Drive I counted seen young girls 'employed with pencil and pad One ol them was sketching a water-front scene, one was composing music and the others were writing scenarios. uuiur wi iiir uvai buii-vii MUiiri Ol the day are tho product of a steel puddler'fl imagination and an au-thor's au-thor's execution. What the serf on needs today Is ' better stories. They are not likely j ti ome from recognized writers, i Mob) of the popular magazine writ-i 1 ers of the day they are usually our ipopular screen writers work with compass ana rule. A plot to Hum is . a geometrical figure composod of one qi more triangles. j 8t nographexs and puddlers, sailor., sail-or., and steamstrosses as a rule havb more vivid imaginations than writ- ,e?3. Writers are sophisticated. So-1 phisticatlon leada to monotony of. thought. Tlie story of Nell Marie Dace's .success Is set down here to encour-'age encour-'age other novices to submit the:r Ideas to motion picture producers. THE STORY. The material instinct in a woman Is undeveloped. She loses her husband's hus-band's respect. They separate. A burglar visits the woman's home, Ho boosts .n child through u transom 11 Iocs the door for his entrance. The wo. nan fires a revolver. Tho child i. wounded. She takes it to' a hospital and acts as its nurse. Tho J maternal spark is fanned by her interest in-terest In the child she harmed. Hus band and wife are reunited That 13 the gist of ihe story fori which rfugp Uallin paid $1000. There is teally nothing remarkable about I it. However, It is as good us most' of the plots upon which pictures aro built. Had a recognized author Writ-1 i ten it he or sho would have com-jmanded com-jmanded u price of five figures for it. TUX MOVHE li I i i i RBOX. Lon Chaney is to play Ihe rolo of Fagin and Noah Beery the role of Uilly Sykcs in Jackie L'oogan's er-sion er-sion Of "Oliver Twist." e e In The Great Adventure." being fllm.id by Whitman Bennett Lionel Barry more from the choir loft will watch tils own body carried into Westminster Abbey. Anything u possible In the movies I ' " ' W illiam Rusaell has started work on Richard Harding Davis' "Jho Man of Zanzibar." Ruth Renick is leading lau- 0 t Wallace P.eid. Con: ad Nagel. Bebe Danlols and Julia Fays hav tho leading roles In William DeMille'a production of "Nice People." "East is West." to he done in ci I-luloid I-luloid by Connie Talmadge. ran 694 nights on Broadwn with Pay Painter Pain-ter In the leading role. s "Prairie Jack" Edwards, a ow-pu ow-pu other of Casper, Wyo., Is riding horseback to Hollywood with a prii-tion prii-tion asking Bill Hurt to start making mak-ing pictures again. Hart has already al-ready announced thai he will soon start work. "And now, dear Lord, I have a.skwd you every night Cor a month to inako me a good boy iind toda) I've been bad again. Why don't You I make me good?" That'.s what Wally j I ':Md heard the other ntirht when II Wally, Jr., i, saying hla how-I-IS lay-nw. j |