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Short Story Writing Is Easy
It Only Takes Years to Learn
By Ring W. Lardner
To the Editor: .; . ;
I promised the boys and girls in
thla col. laat- wk. that I would try
and srivo you a model sample short
story in this wks.
letter bo as some
of my readers that
is interested . In
short story write
ins can study the
form and style and
technics and etc.
of same so as to
get a ldear of how
fr arr at .wrltain
rffi" IT U ijhtf short story and
Wl'MJP" when once a per-
son gets the han of it they's noth
ing to prevent them from cleaning
up a bbi. of money wrlteing short
storys in spare time.
Of course they's a whole lot of
different kinds "of a shorf story like
for inst. a ghost "story or a detective
story or a misery story and etc., but
the kind that the editors and their
clients eats up is a love story that
boarders on the risky, you - might
say, - but . not to raw and the plot
don't half to arat. to so much as long
as the lines is sAapy and ldear is
original like for inst. a man and a '
girl being throwed together on a
desert island or, something.
In the foiling sample short story
witch I have tore off in spare time
you will notice the foiling pt's. witch
is nessary to write a successful short
story, viz.: (1) a snapy title (2) the
readers int. is griped at the start (3)
the dialect is racey (4) the scenes Is
layed. in a unusual place and (5) the
results is a big supprise.
In regards to the style I have tried
not to write my best so as to not dis
courage prospected pupils that might
say to themself, "What is the use,
we can't, never . write like he," but
still and all I have wrote in a style
witch new. beginners will find it
worth their wile to try and write like
it and I ask 1 and all to not give up
if thev don't, seem to get on to the
nack At 1st. as it took me a couple
mos. to master same and is libel to
take most people yrs.
SHAD ROB
1.
He hadn't never expected to find
her there;. Au contralre he had left
THE 1ST
PHOTOPLAY
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New Bill Today
VAUDEVILLE '
SPECIAL FEATURES
Mr. Fred Hubbard and
Associate Players
IN THK SERIO-OOMIO PLATLIT
"PINCHED"
PHOTOPLAY
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MISS VIOLA DANA
IN THI METRO MASTER PICTURE
"BLACKMAIL"
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Coming ' Soon Morriseyg
Great "Overseas Revue"
Listen he yodeled, and the girl
showed him her ! squirrel teeth in a
leer. !
the City to get away from the likes
of, she. But there she was, by golly,
hopping from branch to branch of
the trees that was in the woods witch
he had long called his own private
forest. I
"A Squirrel Woman J" he husked
to himself, and indeed her features
was a ringer for the furry little rep
tile that lives off of nuts.
"Listen." he yodelled, and the girl
seeing him for the 1st. time showed
her-squirrel teeth in a leer.
"Listen yourself you big bum,"
came the reply, and the Squirrel
Woman lept to the ground like a
born leper. "I suppose you are hun
gry," she bayedi "Men usually do."
Arnold Wisecracker was much
Commencing
CHARLES
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A
"An Old
Fashioned
Comedy
Review
Mutt
and Jeff
Boy
fJflS taste was all for
: hia grand dad's
ways, but his sweet
heart was nothing like
grand-mother J j
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amused, for
name.
our hero's
2.
For a wk. they lived in adjoining
whiffle trees, the well groomed New
Yorker and the Lady of the Squir
rels. One day wile they was setting
on a root eating their breakfast of
whiffle cones the girl noticed that
Wisecracker was squawking.
"What is the ldear, dear?" she
flung at him. "Don't you like my
trees?" . " '
"Your limbs is pretty," came the
reply, j .
"Leave," she barked, and he took
a bough.
3.
One night that autumn they was
swaping confidents. The Squirrel
Woman told him how she had came
to . leave civil life, how j they had
been rodent blood in her veins on the
mothers side and how she had not
been able to live with other people
on acct. of them suspecting her for
a rat and went after her with traps
Land poison..
"Don't die in the house," they had
Implored her times without No.
"Now tell me about yourself," she
smacked him. "What was you do
ing before you come to these here
woods?"
"Well," he bit off with a faint
smirk, "Just before I come here I
cleaned up1 In Wall St."
"Maybe you knowed my brother,"
she burst.- "He use to be a white
wings."
Wisecracker was much amused.
4.
Came the spring of 1917 when the
United States declared It a war on
Europe and the govt, begin to scour
the'eountry for whiffle trees to make
Germany think we had a horse. Our
hero and lady friend was woke up 1
morning by the sound of a axe pat
ter pattering vs. a tree. Came the
discovery that their woods had been
Invaded by many of the j modern
woodmen.
"What are we going to do ?" Wise
Today
IN
xJENsxN-vrjN HsraszwoC?
, mll M , "
cracker broke put with a rash.
"They'll knock us for a pile of cord
wood."
"Come over into my tree," wjiis
pered the Squirrel Woman. "They's
a hole in it where we can hide in it."
So the pair of them dumb in her
trunk and was checked to France.
6.
"Oo, la gay Paree!" said the Squir
rel Woman 1 morning. Like most
of her sex she picked up languages
like they was live coals.
Her and Wisecracker was walking
together down the Avenue du Tom
et Jerry. It was a wk. after the
armistice was signed and the great
war was nearly over.
"Vous likee Paree (You like
Paris) ?" squawked Wisecracker.
. "Tres," came the reply.
"Speaking of tres," came the re
ply, "don't you never miss our for
est?" The Squirrel Woman broke into a
trot.
"Without our forest," came the
reply, "I feel like water off a duck's
back."
The next day found them amongst
the Boys du Boulogne eating sau
sage. . .
By golly, they were both sick on
the trip back acrost the old pond.
On the 4th. day out they seen each
other on deck for the 1st. time.
"How do you feel?" Wisecracker
asked her. "You look rotten."
"And vice versa," came the reply.
"I felt pretty good till I seen you.
You make me sick."
"You make me sick yourself,"
said Wisecracker.
The stars looked down on them
and laughed outright. -
Ring W. Lardner.
Long's Island, Nov. 19.
(Copyright. 1920. bjr the Bell SndieaU, Inc.)
British engineers have built a bridge
over the river Tigris at Bagdad to with
stand the heaviest traffic, yet which
automatically meets the rise and fall of
the river and can withstand severe
floods.
Peoples' New
Orchestra :
Twelve Artists Under
the Direction of-
JOHN BRITZ
Oomlnft Attractions
BILLIE BURKE
Trlsky Mr$. Johnson"
DOROTHY D ALTON
"A Romintic AdveriTaress" ,
Constance Talmadge
"Good References"
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Photo Plays
LIBERTY Scenes in Hades, said to
rival even the most fanciful of
Dore'a famous drawings, have been re
produced on the screen in Norma Tal
madge'S latest First National starring
vehicle, "The Branded Woman," which
is being shown at the Liberty theatre.
Because of the elaborate nature of the
sets called for in this motion picture,
which was adapted by Anita Loos and
Albert Parker from Oliver D. Bailey's
well known stage play, "Branded," Hugo
Ballln was engaged to design them. The
result has been an artistic triumph. In
addition to beautiful interiors for a pri
vate house In Paris and the Kitz hotel,
a fashionable boarding house for girls
up the Hudson, the library and other
rooms of a wealthy New Yorker's home
are some remarkable scenes in India.
Manager Raleigh is also showing
"Raca of the Age," the only picture of
the famous race between Sir Barton
and Man o'War. The film was made by
a battery of 12 cameras, including one
taking slow motion pictures.
RIVOLI Bathing beauties by the
scores are to be seen in "What
Women Love," at the Rivoll theatre,
Annette Kellerman's first modern com
edy drama for the screen. Southern
California was combed for the prettiest
young girls to appear in the beach scenes
of the production.
A 150 foot dive from the mast of a
pitching schooner : a thrilling battle be
tween a young society girl and a gorlila
llka man 20 feet below the surface of
the sea ; . an uneven battle between a
young society man and a mutinous crew
on a tramp schooner. These are just a
few of the tense moments in "What
Women Love."
As Annabel Cotton, the star depicts
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Away op in Alaska lived Mac Neir, a rugged mining engineer. "Frenchy" was hit pal.
There cam beautiful lass from the outside, and "Frenchy" loved her. Then cam war
and "Frenchy" was summoned to the colors. No Jus tic of the Peace) could be found to
perform a wedding ceremony, so Mac Neir took charge of the girL Soon word cam
that "Frenchy" was killedand also a baby came. For lib friend's sake Mate Neir made
"his own law" and lived with the girL AND THEN FRENCHY CAME HOME.
' One of th best Alaska pictures -
On of the screen's gretet male stars- ;
A wonderful story, wonderfully produced, with THE GREATEST CLIMAX YOU
HAVE EVER. SEEN . . .
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the role of an athletic girl whose clothes
shock her crusading father. She is
sought by two suitors, vastly different
in type, and marries the one that she
herself least expected to : marry.
MAJESTIC During one of his sprees
MacXeir, au engineer, meets and
quarrels with a young French engineer
whom he chances to meet in a cheap
saloon. A reconciliation follows and the
two "bunk" ' for the night in e. cheap
lodging house; Their story is reAced to
film form at the Majestic theatre this
week in "His Own Law," featuring Ho
bart BoBwortb, "Frenchy," as Mac
Neir dubs his newly acquired friend, is
unaware of his new companion's Identity
until one of MacNeir's men finds him'
digging a ditch and urges him to re
turn to his desk.
How the beautiful girl comes Into
"Frenchy's" life and his subsequent re
turn to his native land at the call to
arms, and his return after having been
announced dead on the field of battle, his
denouncement of the man who has sac
rificed his all to protect his friend's wife
and child ; the "battle of hearts," prov
ing a "friend in need is a friend Indeed,"
makes this Bosworth production a
splendid picture.
"OEOPLES Charles' Ray has a typical
A role in "An Old Fashioned Boy" of
which he makes the most The picture
is at the People's theatre for the week.
As David Warrington, a bashful suitor
for the hand of a rather snobbish girl,
he displays all those mannerisms which
have contributed to make him famous in
his especial field of entertainment. His
trials when a trio of boisterous children
are placed in his care and when to
amuse them he engages in a sort of
taffy pulling contest with more or less
direful results, provoke many a laugh.
How he finally wins the love of the girl
Direction oJeilseii and or Herbert
presents
PLAYING
NOW!
PATHE
COMEDY
he woos, makes a worth while picture.
Ethel Shannon, as the girl, is excellent.
The support was clever and the work of
the three juvenile players was effective.
Jerome Storm directed the picture, of
which Agnes Christine Johnston is the
author.
COLUMBIA George Melford, the
veteran produeer, has scored another
success in producing "Behold My Wife !"
from Sir Gilbert Parker's famous novel.
The picture will contlsue through the
present week at the Columbia theatre.
It is the story of the transformation of
an Indian maiden of the Canadian
Northwest, married in a fit of drunken
rage by an aristocratic young English
man to -spite his family. Into a beautiful
and cultured young woman. Milton Sills,
Elliot Dexter, and Ann Forrest are Jo
in the cast.
Melford is responsible for some of" the
most notable photoplays of recent years.
Conspicuous among them are "Told In
the Hills," with Robert Warwick ; the
famous morality play, "Everywoman" ;
Jack London's ."The Sea Wolf." and
"The Round Up," starring Roscoe Ar
buckle. - .
STAR One of the most satisfactory
picturlzatlons of a big novel that has
been made In the past two years la
"King Spruce," produced by Otto Boll
man and Roy Clements and presented
for the new week at the Star theatre.
Mitchell Lewis, actor of rugged types. Is
the sfar of "King Spruce," the picture
version of Holman Day's famous story of
the Maine forests, and throughout the
multi-reel production this artist does
work
rk tt tremendous power and convlo
i, nla performance taking rank with
tlon,
his remarkable achievement in "The
Barrier," that lifted him overnight into
select . screen circles. -
A special added attraction will be
? A o ,2.
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NEWS
''TEAGUE
J ' l an annsaally sympa - ltirfi?
. I thetle WerUtier aeeemeaal Vkrttff-'
J . meat and la eeaeert today at - Tt f '
i. i us r. m. . i r,M
"Milo's Merry Minstrels," a group
of
eight popular entertainers.
.
HIPPODROME Wyndham Standing
.has the pleasantly, difficult part of
the diplomatic lawyer i in the Metro
special production, "Blackmail," at the
Hippodrome Sunday for four days.
In ' this latest of his screen appear-.,
ances as the resourceful lawyer pictured"
by Lucia Chamberlain In the story pub- -lished
In the Saturday Evening post.
Standing has made a : role similar to
those which won him a large following
on the legitimate stage, ,
Standing made his first stage hit as
a member of Sir Henry Irving's com
pany m the Lyceum theatre, London,
and continued his successes with Mr,
and Mrs. Kendall and : Miss Fortescite.
He came to this country and appeared in
A number of productions with Comstock
and Oeat, the SchuberU and William A.
Brady. .
'
CIRCLE The sea again furnishes the
background foe. a strongly dramatic
story in Hobart Bosworth's latest photo
play, "Below the Surface." which will
be seen on the screen at the Circle
theatre today and Monday. The locale
Is a fishing village on the coast of Maine
and the star has the role of a stern old
New England deep sea diver, ilia part
ner Is his son, Luther. The two are
approached with a fraudulent enterprise
to extract treasure from a sunken wreck,
The old diver declines, but Luther, At
tracted by the pretty deml-mondalne who
accompanies the get-rich-quick promolor,
accepts .the proposition, marrying the
girl at the same time.
Dramatic events follow, including the
wrecking of a steamer. In which Luther's
wife and the promoter are drowned.
The ending is a happy one. .
With skirts as high as they are, silk
stockings are almost a kneeceaalty.'
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