In his regular column in Moving Picture World, Epes Winthrop Sargent prints the lament of one correspondent who had wasted his money on one of those schools of photoplay writing that advertised in the backs of magazines like Moving Picture World.
Most of those who have given their opinion of the schools have found prose inadequate. A Florida correspondent drops into poetry. The effusion is printed verbatim and is offered without comment. It offers its own best commentary:
Moving Picture World,
Gentlemen
I sopose you have herd the same old tune before from beginers but maybe not in poetry.
So here goes
If the Weary World is Willing
Ive a little word to say.
Abought my sad exprince
Trying to write a photoplay.Ive Wrote both songs and poetry
And Friction, a little Yes
But never have wrote a picture play.
Although Ive tried my best.I answerd a ad in the paper
To a corspondence school
They said for $30.00 they wood
learn me all the rulesDear friends. Take my true advice
And let that school go by,
When they say they teach you all for money
You can make them out a LIE.
This May enterest outhers.
