Your manuscript must be tastefully put together. Use white, unruled paper, about 8¹⁄₂ × 11 inches in size, which you can secure from your stationer or druggist.

Have your Scenario typewritten, by all means. Very few companies will buy plays that are not typewritten. You do not stand one chance in a hundred of getting a play accepted that is not typewritten. Use double space. Write on one side of the paper only.

Write your Title on the first sheet, the Synopsis on the second, your cast of characters on the third page, and then start your first scene on page four. (See sample play.)

Place the Title of your play on upper right-hand corner of each page, following the Title page. In upper right-hand corner of Title sheet write, “Submitted at usual rates,” or “Please make offer.” The best way to do is to mark (Submitted at usual rates). We firmly believe the producers are all reliable, and will pay you what your play is worth.

Should you prefer to do so you can write (Please make offer). When you ask them to make you an offer, however, it means correspondence, which most of the producers dislike.

Write your name and complete address in the left-hand corner on the first and last sheets of manuscript.

Fasten all pages together with paper clips or fasteners, which can be easily removed.

Please bear in mind not to roll your manuscript. Editors will not read a rolled manuscript.

Fold pages twice, and place in a legal size envelope, about 9¹⁄₂ × 10 inches, which you can buy at the Post-office.

Address another large envelope to yourself, put on sufficient postage, and enclose with your Scenario, so the Producer can return your script to you, if he does not accept it.

The envelope you address to yourself, should be a trifle smaller than the other, so it will not have to be creased. A creased envelope, quite often breaks open in the mail, and your script may become lost.

Address your envelope to the “Scenario Editor,” of whatever Company you send your play. To prevent the envelope in which you mail your script, from being lost, write your name and address on upper left-hand corner of envelope.

Do not offer your play to any other Company, until the one to whom it is first sent, has notified you of its rejection.

Do not write the Editor, about the merit of your story, he will judge the play for himself, and if he wants it, will pay you what it is worth.

If you have been successful as a magazine writer, or sold any other literary work, you might mention this to the Editor when sending him your Play.

If your play is rejected, and is soiled or wrinkled when it is sent back to you, have it rewritten on new paper, before sending it to another Producer for acceptance.

It is well to have the heading of your different scenes, as well as your Leaders, Subtitles, or Inserts, written in red ink. This can easily be done, if the machine has a red ink ribbon. You will note we have printed them in italics. The names of the various Scenes and Subtitles will show up much more prominently, when written in red ink, and will facilitate matters considerably for the Editor and Director.

Have a carbon copy of your manuscript made, for your records.

If you do not hear from the Producers (to whom you send your Play) in a reasonable length of time, say 4 to 6 weeks, then send a registered letter and enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope for reply.