The following amusing anecdote was found in a 1937 issue of The Christian Science Monitor.
An ingenious piece of fiction from one of the studios tells of the literary adventures of one Arthur Camp, a property man. It seems (according to this press release) that Camp needed a manuscript rejection slip for use in a picture to which he had been assigned.
Prop men pride themselves on being able to produce anything, so Camp sat down and penned an article on movie-making and sent it to a national magazine.
He thought, of course, that he would get it back with a rejection slip. However (surprise! surprise!), the magazine bought the article.
Of course, Camp could have had the studio printshop make up some of the slips. Or he could have borrowed one from any of a thousand unsuccessful Hollywood authors. But that wouldn’t have made a good story. —Milwaukee Journal.
This article was found in the Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 1937.
