WRITING FOR SCREEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

WRITING FOR SCREEN

DEFINITE MARKET NEW NEW YORK SCHEME With the developmen t of original screen stories and the encouragement of authors to write their stories directly tor the screen as its aim, a new Authors' Council will start next month with offices in the Paramount building in New York.

"New York is the literary centre ot the country and, so far as pictures are concerned, of the world," says Jesse L. ' _ky, explaining the formation of the new ureau.

"At the same time the Cast is not altogether suitable for picture production. Authors now. instead of being lost in the rush and bustle of Hollywood, can go to this convenient centre, submit their ideas, have help and guidance in working them out, and develop their stories with a definite market in sight.”

William de Baron, for the last two years an associate Paramount producer at the Long Island studio, recently closed, will have charge of the Authors’ Council.

Owen Davis, well-known dramatist and president of the Authors’ League of America, is to be associate director. With the aid of the bureau Lasky believes that writers, free of the drawbacks entailed by their working in a strange technique and the unaccustomed atmosphere of a studio, will be able to produce far better stories.