Judge — January 20, 1923 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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A Nation-Wide Call For New Ideas writers who can write se producers can use to HE call is for m ww stories that th meet the public demand for better stories. And there is a new opportunity for those who have thought of writing for the screen— a wide open field for new talent yet undisc ered. This talent may be anywhere—in peo- ple who may least suspect that they possess it. Recently a California school teacher; a New York society woman; a Montana housewife; an underpaid office man in Utah; a Pennsyl- vania newspaperman and many others discov- ered by this corporation in ordinary walks of life, and trained by us, have sold their stories or become staff writers to prominent producers. It is a fact, well known in the industry, that adapted books and short stories already written by the professional writers of today, are insufficient, and in most cases unsuitable for use; and scores of men high in authority in the studios are buying these published stories— written to read, not to screen—because they enough The producing companies in Los Angeles to day can use scores of new stories immediately, and yet they cannot find them anywhere. A great director recently paid $8,000 cash for merely an idea that one of his trained sc ario writers could make into a photoplay. It is stories that producers want, not well known authors with famous names—stories written by anyone so long as they are good ones and are written with a knowledge of screen technique. Now most people know life for they live it. And most people also will find that they have d basic story ideas, if they only stop to think. Many, too, are naturally endowed with Creative Imagination, that most important of all qualifications for screen writi What most people do not know is what they really do know, and frequently never find out merely because they never try to do the things they might do quite successfully. ity—could you these wanted Is screen writing help supply producers stories ? your a with Have you that essential, natural endowment, Creative’ Imagination? Don't answer _nega- tively, even to yourself, until you really know. There's a very simple, interesting and reliable way to find out all’ about yourself in this respect. The way is through the famous Palmer Cre- ative Test—the most successful method ever for the Screen — and New Writers to Supply Them Producers are Searching Everywhere for New and Original Stories for Their devised to sift out and clearly indicate a natural aptitude for a certain kind of work. If you have thought that you could write better photoplays than many you have seen, or could change scenes here and there to make a picture better, send for this free test. If you believe that you know life and have some ideas that could be adapted to the screen, send for this free test and learn the truth. If you are conscious of an active creative imagination, send for this set of simple ques- tions and see what score you make. Advisory Council Rex Ingram Director and Produc Thos. H. Ince Veteran Producer Allen Holubar Producer and Director €. Gardner Sullivan Scenarist to Thos. H. Ince J. L, Frothingham Producer of Features E. J. Banks, w.a.,PH.0. Dirgctor of Research, Sacred Films, ine: Rob Wagner Tralee. Screen Authority Photopiay Magazine Frederick Palmer, Author and Educator Educational Staff Officers Clayton Hamilton, M.A. Director of Education DouglasZ. Doty ‘Associate Editor James R, Quirk Eugene B. Lewis Editor-in-Chiet George Elwood Jenk We will tell you frankly just what chance you have. It is not our purpose to encourage anyone who lacks the essentials of success in writing photoplays. Our aim is to develop more writ- ers who can supply the great demand and reduce a serious shortage of good photoplays. The Palmer Creative Test, therefore, is solely to single out those persons who are likely to develop into regular producers of acceptable scenario material and who can become part of this great industry, now the fifth largest in the world. Those who enroll find this course complete— of university calibre in all respects—yet requir- ing only 15 minutes daily application if they haven't time for more. Unlike many correspondence courses, you practice the profession as you learn it when you take a course in writing photoplays—you train yourself to write scenarios by cwriting them under the guidance and direction of successful photodramatists of actual studio experience. And now that we produce photoplays our- selves, as well as sell to others, we offer to new writers for their acceptable scenarios a COPYRIGHT, 1922, PALMER PHOTOPLAY CORPORATION, HOLLYWOOD. CALIF. Productions royalty basis of payment with a minimum of $1000 in advance. So photoplay writers, now for the first time, can share in the profits from their plays. Other producers usually pay from $500 to $2000 for stories they select. The question is: are you one of those persons who can be trained to write—one of those who are naturally endowed swith that one most im- portant qualification—Creative Imagination? You cannot know until you've sent your an- swers to the Palmer Creative Test. It’s worth while to know. For many people now are missing a new, brilliant career because they little suspect this power in themselves. _ It is worth while to develop Creative Imag- ination even though you don't wish to write photoplays as a profession because this power is the greatest of all in the making of success in any line of work, art, or profession. So send now for this free test, made in the privacy of your home without cost or obliga tion. _ We will tell you frankly what your answers indicate. All “correspondence, of course, is strictly confidential. According to the way in. which you answer, we will send you complete information about the Palmer Course, or advise you not to take it. The main thing is to get the Creative Test nd try your hand—knozw if you have ability of this kind, and capitalize on it if you have. y also if you haven't it, for that may save you time and money later. This advertising is most profitable to us only if we develop writers whose product we can use or sell to others for their use. So mail the coupon now. ---—------- Palmer Photoplay Corporation, Department of Education, Sec. 4301, Palmer Building, Hollywood, Calif. | Please send me the Palmer Creative Test, which Tam to fill out and return to you for | your perusal and subsequent advice to me with- out charge. Also send your interesting booklet. | How a $10,000 Imagination Was Discovered.”* t Name, Srreer., City State All correspondence strictly confidential,