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THE WRITER'S MAGAZINE GUIDE 127
the Desert, " or something like that. Even when it is stated that suchand-such a screen story is " based on" a well-known novel by a popular author, the plan does not seem advisable, although, I repeat, the producers doubtless know their own business better than do the theatre patrons. World Film is about to release a picture called, " Life's Whirlpool," featuring Holbrook Blinn. In very small print in the trade paper advertisement of it, we learn that this is really a screen version of Frank Norris's novel, "McTeague. " When the World Corporation first announced that they were about to put on the Norris novel, I was much interested, since the book made an impression upon me when I read it some years ago. But I might — and others who do not read the trade papers or pay much attention to the theatre advertising probably will — pass by the house that was showing "Life's Whirlpool" and never even dream that inside was being presented an interesting screen version of Norris's " McTeague. " On the other hand, the same firm puts out an adaptation of Clyde Fitch's play, "The City," giving it its proper title, and here, where it is not so much needed, since nine out of ten people seeing the title "The City," would take it for granted that it was a screen version of Fitch's play, the author's name is given in type just as large as the title of the play itself. I have even heard prominent theatrical men and literary agents say that, after paying big money for the motion picture rights to some of these famous books and plays, the manufacturers, as it would seem, deliberately do things that detract from, rather than add to, the drawing power of the film. I am not denying that, to most people, "Life's Whirlpool" is a more attractive title than "McTeague," but surely the thousands of people who read the book and are familiar with the original title should be taken into consideration.
The Writer's Magazine Guide
Compiled by Anne Scannell O'Neill
FICTION
"What is a Novel?" A Symposium by James Lane Allen, R. W. Chambers, Coningsby Dawson, Margaret Deland, Rupert Hughes, Kathleen Norris, and other novelists, Bookman, Feb., 1916.
"The Right Use of Books," Laura Spencer Porter, Woman's Home Companion, Feb., 1916.
"A Spanish Estimate of Kipling," W..Jonius, Bookman, Feb., 1916.
"The Advance of the English Novel," William Lyon Phelps, Bookman, Feb., 1916.
"The Catholic View in Modern Fiction," May Bateman, Catholic World, Feb., 1916.
"Treasure Island," Grace Humphrey, St. Nicholas, Feb., 1916.