THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,; It SUNDAY i MORNING, v OCTOBER '17,'c 1820.
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Scene 1. Geo. Is In his store sort
ing fish. A client comes in and looks
over the stock. Sub title: "The cus
tomer asks for s flounder. Geo.
picks up a fish and hits the client
In the eye 'with t, knocking him
down. Sub title: "I guess that will
flounder you." Another client comes
In the store. Sub title: "The cus
tomer asks for finnan haddie, but
Geo. tells him he only keeps weak
fish." The client falls down and
tears his trousers.
Scene 2. Gertie Is at home set
ting on the lounge and pulling su
perfluous hairs out of Baby Wottle's
head. The telephone rings. . Gertie
goes to answer it. Sub title: "The
wrong number." Baby Wottle falls
off- the lounge and lands on Its
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By IUng . Lardner
To the Editor:
In last week's letter I give my
readers the story of a friend of mine
name Joe Cooper that wasn't getting
along so good In
his regular Job and
finely begin to take
corres pondents
coarses by mail
In other lines like
k short Etory wrlte-
ing and expert
acct. and cartoon
ist and etc. and
after a wile be got
so he was knock
ing out close Jo 50
thousand per an
num In his spare
time.
Well they's still another field yet
that Joe hasn't went In It and that
la wrlteing photo plays and great
, big money is promised for good ones
because god knows they are a rare
bird and If they Is some of my
readers that finds trouble makeing
both ends meet the other and could
use a couple, 100 thousand a yr.
extra earned in their spare time, why
here is the field to go in 'to.
Tou can pick up most any maga
zine and find a dozen ads of cor
respondents schools that learns you
how to write photo plays or movies
as I have nicknamed them, but how
are you going to know that the peo
ple that runs them schools has ever
wrote a photo play themself and for
all as you know you may be paying
your tuitions to a bird that ain't
done nothing all their life but pluck
pimples off of a putting green.
So In order to protect my readers
from these kind of vlppera I have
made it up in my mind to start a
school of my own along these lines
and my qualifications is that i have
wrote 2 photo plays and they both
flopped like the White Sox, and I
got paid pretty near 10 per cent of
what was owed me, witch is also
like the White Sox, and my system
of teaching will- be to learn my
pupils to write photo plays opposite
to like I wrote them.
The big money in the scream
game today, lays In 1 reel comedys
as the market is flooded with 5 reel
comedys witch the author don't mean
for them to be funny. Producers is
willing to pay $1000.00 lor a good
1 reel comedy. Try and get it. Well
when a author sets down to write a
1 reel comedy they should do it with
the ldear of fitting some comedian
and then submit their play to the
Co. that has got that bird under
contracts and the Co! will have the
picture made whenever the artist
ain't too busy makeing a change of
wifes or husbands.
The things that is necessary in
wrlteing a 1 reel comedy is (1) a
catchy title (2) a funny idear (3)
plenty of laughs and (4) witty sub
titles. As a sample of what will go
and go big, the Ring School of Photo
Play Wrlteing gives the following
speclment of a 1 reel comedy witch
is a model in construction and con
tains the 4 nessary ingredlence In
all that the word implys.
As a title for this picture we have
chose "The Finny Tribe" witch in
itself will knock them for a goal.
The scenario follows.
CHARACTERS. '
Geo. Wottle, a fishmonger (Comedy
lead)
Gertrude Wottle, his wife (Comedy
lead)
Minnie Quagmire, her rival (Sou
brette) Al Swamp, a private dectectjve
(Heavy comedy).
ache." ,
Scene 8. Geo. and Minnie are
spooning in the hammock on the
Wottles "porch. Gertie comes out of
the house and catches them. Sub
title: "Caught In the act." The ham
mock breaks and the lovers set down
nddenlv on the floor. Sub title: "It
couldn't of been a very good ham
mock." '
Scene 4. Gertie goes to Swamp's
detective agency and hires Al Swamp
to take up the case. Al puts on his
shoes' and starts out with Gertie.
Sub title: "The plot sickens." As
they are leaving Al's office a swing
ing door hits them in the eye ana
knocks them down. Sub title: 'In
again out again Finnegan."
Scene C. Geo. and Minnie are
spooning In the fish store. Minnie
steps on a eel and falls down. Sub
title: "Minhie says her eel slipped.
Geo. tells her she should ought to
wear rubber ones." Al and Gertie
come In the store and surprise the
lovers. Geo. runs to the fish box
and sets on a perch. Gertie follows
him. Sub title: "Get down off your
perch." Geo. tries to get down, but
falls and tears bis trousers. Al tries
to pick him Up, but slips on the slip
pery floor ana tears nis trousers.
Sub title: "Al thinks they's more to
be patched up than the marital af
fairs of the Wottles." '
Scene 6. They all go to the Wot
tles' home. Minnie looses her In
terest in Geo. and falls in love with
Al. They decide to get married. Sub
title: "Al asks the fair Minnie to
become his bride. She says O. K."
Al summons a minister and him and
Minnie are married with the Wottles
as witnesses. Sub title: "The knot
is tied."
Scene 7. The party adjourns to
the dining rm. where a fish break
fast is served. Sub title: "London
Bridge is failing down." In the
midst of the hilarity Baby Wottle
chokes on a fish bone and croaks.
Sub title: "Eat Jelly fish. No bonesi"
There you have got your catchy
title, your funny idear, your laugh
able situations ' and your numerous
sub titles. This part of it comes
from practice and study and the
Ring School alms', to learn you the
secrets through its corpse of defi
cient teachers. For literature and
terms and eta address the Ring
School and see If we answer.
Ring W. Xiardner
Long's Island, Oct. 15.
(Copyright. 1920, by tfa Ben Sjndieat. Inc.)
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