DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13270, 28 August 1916, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

"'he crying need of moving pictures is ideas. In tiieir onward Running sweep tliey have devourShort ed so many novels, short of Ideas, stories, and plays that the stock of available plots is about depleted, and the more aggressive producers are casting about for stories for their pictures. Recently William A. Brady began a scenario contest for the World Film Corporation, of which he is now managing director, and now comes the Famous Players Film Company with an offer of 1000 dollars each for 100 scenarios suitable for the type of films made by its studios. This company's campaign for fresh material is significant because the policy pursued during the three or fouA years of life has been to translate successful plays and novels into films. The fact 'that it is now in the market for original scenarios indicates that it can no longer depend off the drama and Action shelves of/the libraries for its celluloid fodder. The'campaign differs from the usual cantesUn that no prizes will be given, and that only ideas that m£et certain definite requirements will toe accepted.

Those that measure up to this standard will be purchased at the set price of 1000 dollars. The offer will hold good until 100 scripts have been accepted. The story may touch upon almost any subject, though lurid melodramas or stories of a political or religious nature will not stand much chance. If they are particularly adapted jto the company's stars —Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, and Hazel Dawn —they are apt to meet with favour. —— We were once accustomed to regard

Nature as a beneficent Who are mother who would treat the us kindly if we obeyed Fortunate, behests. That point of view seems to be changing with some rapidity. "VSe blame human shortcomings on hereditary oi environment or disease; the modern humanitarian is ever in search of excuses

for delinquencies, and eventually we shall reach a state of mind akin to that of the Russian Veressayer, who, overcome by the many and varied ills to which the body is subject, conceived the world as a gigantic infirmary in which the normal man was a sick man and the healthy person a freak. "We are now informed that the lazy man is defective either in mind or body; the next thing, naturally, is to provide a hospital for him and tax those who aie riot thus "defective" for its support. Our forefathers regarded work as a corrective for laziness; they had Scripture authority for the belief; the apostle said, "IT a man will not work neither let him eat." These days we call him feeble-minded and would have him fed at public expense. Most of i s would not obiect to sitting under the nlum tree and bavins? the |'rr ; t fall info our mouths: may if not be that these h'zy folk are merely tbe fortunate who ore eyemot from the curve laid upon \dam? This idea of relieving humanity from a M'uso of personal resnonsi- ' i'itv. giving *Hw!ing to defects tf.it i niiirht be bettcvd by endeavour on the - art nf the ! lli'.'ted" and encouraging :i dp '111 uuou so"ietv because <1 tbelli. is ■? dangerous ene. Tt indicates -i < 1 isposition to be influenced by sentiment ....+1 c/Mior,