Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 285, 12 October 1921 — Page 7
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1921.
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INDIANA OFFICIALS
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RECENT FERRET LAW (Br Associated Fresc) INDIANA PO US. Oct. 12. Officials of the state department of conservation are preparing to defend the constitutionality of the ferret law passed
by the last General Assembly for the protection of rabbits from these animals. A recent decision in the Terre Haute city court by special Judge Beecher upheld the constitutionality of the law and conservation department officers expect this decision to stand If the case is appealed to higher court. The validity of the law was attacked by attorneys for Frank Black, arrested in August for harboring three ferrets and having no certificate of inspection from the conservation department, fbe law provides that everyone harboring a ferret must take out a certificate of inspection costing $10 for the first animal and $5 for each additional animal. The certificate of inspection does not, however, extend to the owner
the right to hunt with these animals for the law does not permit their use in this respect under any circumstance. The purpose of the law is to abolish the use of ferrets in hunting rabbits. Judge Beecher having upheld the constitutionality of the law, the department of conservation will press for Black's conviction. Another case against "Walter Reece, also of Vigo county, who is charged with harboring 14 ferrets, will also be brought to trial.
Advice to Would-be Scribes By FREDERIC J. HASK1N
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WINCHESTER, Ind.. Oct. 12. Dr. Xene Y. Smith, of Muncie. who Is
charged with the murder of Gus Voida, a Roumanian, was brought to Winchester Monday by Sheriff Hiatt, to stand trial in the Randolph circuit court following the granting of a change of venue from the Delaware circuit court Ross Keith, who is to be tried on he same charge has had his case venued to Madison county. Scarlet Fever Found Miss Dorotby Rowe, county Red Cross nurse, found two cases of scarlet fever at the Lincoln school Monday. The children were inmates of the orphans' home. Professor Marshall Resigns
On account of ill health Professor j Marshall, teacher of botany and agri-j culture at McKinley school, has been
compelled to resign. It is understood that another instructor will be secured soon. ' Arrange for Lectures At the Rotary club dinner Monday a
committee consisting of Rev. G. M.i Payne, P. E. Goodrich and Philip Ka-j bel was appointed to arrange for three j lectures to be given by Dr. Charles E.
Barker of Grand Rapids, Mich., on Oct. 25, under the auspices of the Winchester Rotary club. Operate on Teacher Miss Freda Loon, teacher of the seventh and eighth grades at McKinley school underwent an operation for appendicitis at the county hospital. Miss Esther Chenoweth is acting as substitute. Prepare for Roll Call A meeting of the Red Cross executive board will be held at the Red t Cross rooms Thursday evening, Oct.
13. to prepare for the roll call Nov. 11 to 24 inclusive. I Girl is Born I
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Goodrich, Monday, at the home of Mrs. Goodrich's parents in Decatur.
NEW YORK CITY. Oct. 12. "Don't waste your time and energy writing for the movies! They don't appreciate it." This is the advice of Professor Walter B. Pitkin of the school of journalism at Columbia university here, who
nas recently made a 6tudy of the demands of American moving picture companies for story material. He finds that the one thing they do not want is the one thing they have been
receiving in such enormous volume for the past five years namely, the amateur scenario, written by a novice who has never marketed copy in any form. The movies are not in the field for raw material. They prefer the finished, polished product, after it has appeared in print. It is estimated that the combined output of moving picture producers in this country is limited to 50 new subjects per week, while the average weekly output of the scenario-writing multitude is 8,000. One large producing company alone receives more than 500 unsolicited scenarios every week. The great majority of these are read by reading clerks who are paid anywhere from $15 to $25 a week, and are
promptly returned or thrown into the
wastbasket. This is principally be
cause they are incredibly bad, but also because the movies, while careless and extravagant in many ways, are two cautious to take chances in producing original scenarios when they have at their disposal large numbers of short stories and novels whose success has already been demonstrated by the sales of publishers. This is not written with an idea of discouraging the amateur scenario writer that would be impossible. But if he really has a knack for plots and the energy to set them down, why not try another writing form? Many disappointed ecenarioists have already found solace in poetry, and now Professor Pitkin has another hopeful sug
gestion. He advocates the short story. "Thousands of earnest men and women today are wasting precious time trying to break into pictures by writing for them,' he says. "They are trying to
erally arrange the material for screen production. . i "When story writers attempt these
arrangements or 'continuity' as it i
who admired Tony very much, thought . mained a minor feature compared to so too. So she let him have the money 1 the importance of the star. The pubher father had left her, in order that I lie went , to see its favorite moving
he might found his own company, mre , picture actors ana aciresses regaic
break through a locked door. Another door stands open to them just around the corner, but they fail to see it. "Writing synopses or scenarios directly for the moving pictures is in the long run a waste of time , and for three reasons: "First To sell your stories to the movies you must show fully their dra
matic or pictorial possibilities. This can not be done in a skeletonized outline. If yon hear anyone denying this, you may be sure that he knows noth
ing about story writing. A story id?n. must be written out to show its full values. Second It i3 so easy to dash oiS the incomplete idea of a movie plot, in a few hundred words that thousands of inexperienced writers are .itways doing it. Movie editors receive thousands of such contributions each week. It is thus impossible- for theso editors to read all these manuscript, much less judge them carefully. Not more than one in a hundred receive serious attention. This is not any body's fault. The whole system is ridiculous. Write the Story First. "Third It is commercially wasteful
to submit scenarios to the. movies.
Any story idea good enough for the
movie3 is good enough for the 6hort
story, and as a story, can generally be sold to a magazine for much more than a movie will give. Once in a
magazine it stands a much better
chance of being sold to the movies The full story shows its dramatic val
ues and a sale to the movies means
double pay. Furthermore, a story sent to a magazine i3 almost certain to be read and considered. "The only exception to these remarks is the professional scenario writers employed by the motion picture companies. The existence of these highly trained experts within the studios is a natural result of the evolution of the movies. It is their duty to take stories, novels or plays which the companies have purchased and pick out episodes that can be photographed, write explanatory titles and gen-
called, they compete with these spe-1 an expensive cast and produce his own less of the type of stories they ap-
worKS 01 art. All OI vma reyiuicu ou ioiru m, smnng uisurf paacies in me much more financing than they hr.d i narrative did not bother them. But estimated that Mrs. Tony's money was i gradually as the number of stars in
creased and the delightful novelty of moving pictures wore off. they began to turn a mildly critical eye upon th-3 stories. Then the day of the scenario writer dawned. Comnanies started
cialists. It is not worth doing. And
the expert continuity writers generally find that it is a waste of their time to try to invent plots or write stories. For one thing, they are too busy, and their mastery of continuity
is no guarantee of their knowing anything at all about creative writing. "Let the story writer by all means 1 stick to his craft. If his work possesses motion picture possibilities, the movies will find him out. He can give his idea a real run for the money only in story form." One scenario editor of a large New
York producing company says that
the amateur's first effort is usually
his best,, embodying in all likelihood some personal experience of dramatic
value in his own life. If the utter lack of art in dramatic composition does not completely obscure the dramatic values of the "script" it may be accepted. Forthwith, the writer decides that ' he must be a genius, and no amount of future discourage ment can make him doubt it. He reflects that Ibsen wasTniddle-aged before he achieved fame, that Voltaire was over 50 before he produced his
best work. Perhaps he, too, is destined to win recognition only in bis declining years. So he keeps on scenarioizing. According to this scenario editor, dozens of expert mechanics, barbers and tailors have been ruined by the acceptance of a chance scenario. Hav
ing been successful once, they can not ! understand why they should not bs again, and hence they devote their
time and energy, which might be profitably applied to their trades, to dashing off scenarios hopelessly lacking in merit. Some, failing to get their work accepted by established motion picture companies, but never doubting trieir own high ability, have squandered their savings as well as those of their trusting friends, in producing their own stories. There is the case of Tony, for example, formerly second violin in a moving picture orchestra, who firmly believed he could write scenarios that would surpass most of those which he had seen on the screen. Mrs. Tony,
soon gone, and she was rushing around frantically borrowing from friends and relatives. After the first contribution, it was comparatively easv to eat the friends and relatives
to contribute more, because they did; hiring individuals at large salaries to not wish to see the ship go down car-1 do nothing but write scenarios for rying with it the money they already certain stars, while scenarios wero had invested. Thus. Tony was able loudly solicited from the general pubto complete his picture. But he is j lie A moderately good scenario in now hunting for some kind friends and ; those days brought from $200 to $l,00fl.
relatives who will buy it!
"Before the big feature picture came came into vogue," says our friend, the scenario editor, "and the unit of motion picture entertainment was the single reel 1,000 feet there was naturally a greater number of subjects and the chances of the- scenario writer were a little better. The com
pensation in those days, however,:
was ridiculously small. The scenario ,
was the least important consideration i in the making of a picture. I knew cf . rnf dirpptor who used to gather his!
plavers in New York and take tho ferry to Fort Lee, N. J- where the studio was located. He wrote his
own scenario on his cuffs after the j ferry left the New York side." j For a long period the scenario re ,
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which is a trifle higher than the rate
paid today. This period, hokever, did not last
long. Soon it was seen that the best copy for tho long six-reel features was undoubtedly the popular novel, and the large companies started buying the picture rights of well known
books. The scenario writer esptcially the untrained, unknown scenario writer lost out to the successful author. Even the scenario expert5 employed by the large producing companies ceased turning out original movie dramas and changed their titles to "continuity experts." A few of them, refusing to abandon original creative work, became directors. This is largely the way things stand today. The demand for the works of sue-' cessful authors is still booming, and as there is every indication that the supply w-ill hold out indefinitely, it is probable that the call for outside scenarios will not be heard again for years to come.
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