Eustace Hale Ball

Eustace Hale Ball (1881 - 1931) was a writer, screenwriter, and director of short films in the United States.^[1][2] He wrote The Voice on the Wire, Bubbles from Gotham's Pierian Spring, Traffic In Souls: A Novel Of Crime And Its Cure, and The Gaucho.

An interview with him was published in a 1917 edition of The Editor.^[3]

Books

• A Handbook for Scenario Writer's (1913)
• The Art of the Photoplay (1913)
• Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure (1914)
• Photoplay Scenarios: How to Write and Sell Them (1915)
• The Voice on the Wire (1915)^[4]
• Mollie: A Novel (1926)^[5][6]
• The Scarlet Fox Grosset and Dunlap, New York (1927)
• The Gaucho, Grosset and Dunlap, New York (1928),^[7] a novelization of the screen play
• The Legion of the Condemned, novelization (1928)

Filmography

• Robin Hood (1912 film), scenario
• Checkers (1913 film), scenario with Larence McGill^[8][9]
• The Voice on the Wire (1917)^[9]
• Beyond the Rainbow (1922), adaptation^[9]

References

1. Grau, Robert (July 10, 1914). "The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry". Broadway publishing Company – via Google Books.
2. Ball, Eustace Hale (July 10, 1913). "The Art of the Photoplay". Veritas publishing Company – via Google Books.
3. "The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers". April 16, 1917 – via Google Books.
4. "Eustace Hale Ball (Ball, Eustace Hale, 1881-1931) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
5. Mollie. Grosset & Dunlap. 1926.
6. "Mollie by Eustace Hale BALL on Yesterday's Gallery and Babylon Revisited Rare Books". Yesterday's Gallery and Babylon Revisited Rare Books.
7. "Ball, Eustace Hale 1881-1931 [WorldCat Identities]".
8. "The Moving Picture World". Chalmers Publishing Company. April 16, 1913 – via Google Books.
9. "Eustace Hale Ball". www.tcm.com.

External links

• Findagrave entry