Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — Scripts and Manuscripts. [ARTICLE]

Scripts and Manuscripts.

When a novelist delivers the manuscript of a bs»k to his publisher his troubles are over. He can go away and forget about It or sit down 'and write another book. But when a dramatist turns over the “script” of his play to the stage manager his troubles have just begun; also, for that matter, his fun, for putting on a play is probably the most trying and amusing experience of the whole writing industry. In fiction the author designs and finishes the whole work, from conception to execution, like a painter of pictures. The manuscript of his story Is practically the finished product as it comes to the consumer, except that It is typewriting Instead of type. But the manuscript of a play Is no more a play which people will pny money to see than an architect’s blueprint Is a house for a family to live in.—Collier’s Weekly. Blue coral, which is the most precious kind, Is obtained In the bay of Benin.