The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page TheSloooooo PscturePlavThe Po Characters in the $1,000,000 Picture Play. From Left to Right George Barr McCutcheon, Charles Hanson Towne, Wallace Irwin, James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Burgess Johnson, John Walcott Adams, Will Irwin, Tom Masson, Julian Street, Rupert Hughes. A3 a special favor to readers of this newspaper they are given a glimpse on this page of a $1,000,000 moving picture story that will never reach the public In any other way. This re markable film, placed on view throughout the country In the usual way. probably would be worth even more than the million dollars It would have cost for such use, yet only ono copy Is In exlstonco and that is safely locked up In the archives of tho Dutch Treat Club of New York. "Why such neglect of money-maklng op portunities in this commercial age? you ask. Why such wastefulness' of genius? Ah, that word "genius" explains It Genius contains quirks and queer methods of ratiocination which It Is hopeless for nor mal persons to understand. The geniuses in this cast! authors, artists and poets are of the capitalistic class, all plastered oyer with money by humble magazine publishers, who stand in-line' before their doors, hats in one band and check books In the other. So, finding themselves full of coin and valnglorlousness, they said to each other. "Come, let's squander our price less best efforts on a masterpiece of art for one exhibition only to an audience composed of ourselves and let the publishers and the pub lic go hang!" ' That's the genesis of tho Million dollar moving picture story re cently thrown on tho screen just once, behind the closed doors of tho Dutch Treat Club, choice bits of which are produced on this page. If you doubt that this film is 'worth a million dollars, Just con sider who aro the authors and ac tors. There's Charles Dana Gibson, Illustrator, creator of "The Educa tion of Mr. Pip," "The Gibson Girl" and other masterpieces of Interna tional fame, who won't sharpen a pencil for any publisher who talke in smaller amounts than four figures. Here you see him working for nothing as a disreputable "gun man." The Billionaire Baby, Properly Stamped and Addressed, with the Prize Poem in Its Pocket, Gets Safely into Uncle Sam's Hands by Parcel Post Noto the contemptuous look on tho Gib son face as he marches through tho story thus wastefully, appearing to say to him self: "This is what I really think about money no publishers being present." Two other gunmen Will Irwin and John Wolcott Adams aro writers, with a monopoly of all the words in the diction ary which they sell retail to magazlno editors for tho price of a king's ransom. Another Irwin Wallace, tho fat one who writes words which ho sells for as much as ten cents each, In choice lots of ten thousand, makes the most oxponslvo baby ever shown on any moving picture film. James Montgomery Flagg, artist and author, whose prices cause publishers' ehrleks of agony to resound throughout the land, figures as "Dickey Le Glnny Hen." a poet make-up to resemble Richard Lo Galllenne. His three fellow poets in tho film are Julian Street, Charles Hanson Towne and "Burgess Johnson. Try to hire them to do anything for tho .public, and then go and place a mortgage on your printing presses for tho means to get thorn Copyrights 1913. by the Star Company. started. Suroly something ought to be dono about this. Tho Government has been heckling plutocratic publishers. Why should these luxurious artist and author chaps go unscathed? To make up tho balance or tho value of this $1,000,000 film it is only necessary to mention tho names of tho other par ticipants: Rupert Hughes, dramatist, tho villain; George Barr McCutcheon, wrltor, the bar tendor and also tho nurse; Tom Masson, editor and poet, postman and messenger boy; Compton McKenzie, novelist, a lady editor; Langhorno .Gibson, artist, news boy. Total, $1,000,000, Just for ono show be fore tho members of the Dutch Treat Club, an organization composed pf ono hundred artists, authors and poets who are so tired of being invited to dinner by publishers that they have gone to tho other extreme of herding by themselves, every member eating at his own expense. If you know anything about the tlmo ro quirod to wrlto a moving picturo "Now for the dirty work!" Rival Poets and Gunmen About to Kidnap the Billionaire' Baby, in Whose Pocket Dicky le Ginny Hen Has Hidden His Prize Poem , "scenario," to costume and rchearso the company and turn the camera crank until tho right results have been obtained, you will rcallzothat this million dollar estimate Is more than reasonable. "Saved by Parcel Post; or, The Bllllonnlro Baby" that is tho title of this moving picturo story pro duced for one performance only. Its authors Rupert Hughes and Jamesjrfontgomery Plngg tell it somewhat thus: The scene opens In the Frltz Carlton, a low dive. Four poets are discovered hungry and thirsty. In tho background sits the villain nnd three gunmen, drinking and plotting. A newsboy niters, Is held up by the gunmon and robbed of his jennies. Tho oets search their iockets nnd finally unearth a penny, with which they buy a copy of The American. With heads Great Britain nights Reserved. together they scan each page for stray gems of poetry, but discover Instead an advertisement of the Rust Beautiful Woman's Maga zine offering a prize of frW.OOO for tho best poem submitted within twenty-four hours. Poets fall des porately to work writing, to the IntenFe disgust of tho gunmen, Dicky Le Ginny Hen decides he cannot work In such vile surround ings. Ho will find Inspiration In the woods and fields. The next scene finds him strolling dreamily over the Palisades. Nature, how. ever, falls to provide the necessary Inspiration. Suddenly ho notes n two hundred pound baby In a spe cially built carriage Richard falls In love with tho nurse at once. Ills loves brings In its train the longed-for inspiration. He ncrlbbles hurriedly tho wondorful words that pour from bis enrap tured heart Showing How Charles Banc Gibson, James Montgom ery Flagg, George Mc Cutcheon and Other Artists and Authors Created a Priceless "Movie" for One Performance Only at Their Club Dinner In That Low Dive, tho Fritz-Carlton, the Four Poets Read the 50,000 Priz Poem Offer, While the Gunmen Look on with Contempt. Returning to tho Fritz-Carlton ho boasts of his conquost, his poom and Mb cortnln victory In tho competition. The other poots realizing the poom Is far superior to anything they might do themselves, try to tako It from him but ho oscapos. In tho next scono ho returns to tho nurso and finishes tho poom. Othor poots aro on his trail. In despair ho searches frantically for somo safe placo to hldo the priceless child of his brain. A brilliant idea comes to him. Ho will placo the poem In tho jacket of tho baby. No sooner thought of than tho doed Is dono. Tho nurso flees with tho child. Tho poets dash "Foiled Again!" Rival Poets and Gunmen Outwitted by Dicky lo Ginny Hen, Who Gets the $50,000 Prize upon tho scono, capture Dicky, and lath lila manly form to a treo. Then begins a porlod of horrid torture to compel tho bravo horo to rovcal tho secret hiding; placo. It Is only when ono friend begins pulling out his precious hair that he vreakons. Ho tolls thorn whoro the papers are, but their courago is not oqual to tho feat of facing tho nurso and child. Thoy bargain for tho services of tho gunmon. It is decided with their help to kidnap tho only son nnd heir to John D. Rotonsmcller. Cloyerly tho conspirators stalk their proy until at last thoy aro cornered, and Dicky, Booing his dream of triumph shattered, collapses upon the trembling arm of tho nurse. But help Is at hand. At the moment when It seems all too true that vil lainy will triumph tho child rises up in his wrath and lays poets and gun men senseless nt his feet with dull though soundless thuds from his manly lists. They tako refuge In night with the conspirators clinging remorselessly to their trail. Brought to bay at last 'before a U. 8. Purcol Post box, Dicky, brilliantly resourceful to the end, pro duces Just the right quantity of stamps from his pocket, sticks them on tho baby's nose, writes the ad dress of tho Bust Beautiful Maga zine on his forehead, deposits him in tho box, and turns to face the baf tled conspirators with a sweet smile of calm content, Into their midst pushes n U. 8. postman. His duty Is plain. With a wide (jesturo that expresses nil tho majesty of tho powtrful department behind him, he waves them to one side and disappears with tho child. The tlual scene opens In the office Mugazlne. Enter postman and his charge. With a graceful gesture the baby pluces the precious manuscript in tho lady editor's hand. Dicky en ters and stands shyly awaiting her decision. Bohlml him tho perfidious loets and tbe disgruntled gunmen iuko iiieir places. There Is a mo- inent of nerve-racking suspense as' eucli scans tho faco of tho arbltress! ot ineir poetic destinies. Quickly the expression of lnteresti on the baby's face gives place to one' of ecstatic Joy as she grasps the deep significance of tho llterury gem be fore her. From her desk she takes a hugo bundle of greenbacks 00,000, ono dollar bills and places them in' tho trembling hands of Dicky. Thei conspirators fall prostrate upon thelrl faces, and Dicky, his loved one andl tho baby, march triumphantly forth' over their supine w -