THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS (Continued) tivities of the charitable and social welfare organizations in New York City, articles on publicity, money raising, and other administrative problems of social agencies, and poetry on social service subjects. Sets length limit at from 500 to 1,000 words. Does not pay for contributions, but is glad to receive articles on any social service subjects. BIBLICAL REVIEW (Q), 235 East 49th St., New A conservative Protestant quarterly using theological articles in the more technical sense. Length limit varies, as a rule not exceeding 7,500 words. Has its own special list of writers, and prefers no unsolicited manuscripts. *BIBLIOTHECA SACRA (Q), 6834 Washington Ave., St. Louis, Mo. $3.00; 75c. Melvin Grove Kyle, editor. A religious and sociological quarterly using articles treating of literary, critical, religious, sociological, philosophical, and historical subjects. Buys no photographs, prints no fiction, and does not pay for manuscripts. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES *CABARET STORIES (M), B. L. McFadden, Inc., Publishers, 1860 Broadway, New York. $2.50; 20c. Beatrice May Miller, editor. A new magazine, open for short stories, novelettes, and serials with a cabaret or theatrical background, and for mystery stories of night life: Length limit for short stories, 7,000 words. Payment on acceptance at the rate of one cent a word up. For the present, a $50 prize for the story in each issue judged best by readers. INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY, INC., International Magazine Bldg., 57th St. at 8th Ave., New York. Now the correct address for the following magazines: Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Motor, Motor Boating. JAPM (W), 107 So. Mansfield Ave., Margate, Atlantic City, N. J. $2.25; 6c. Ben Musser, editor. Vol. 1, No. 1, July 2, 1928. Just-AnotherPoetry-Magazine, the first poetry weekly in the U. S., edited by the chief editor of Contemporary Verse and containing similar ma terial. No payment for contributions at present. *JEWISH TRIBUNE (W), 570 Seventh Ave., New York. $5.00. David N. Mosessohn, editor, Uses articles and stories from 2,000 to 2,500 words in length, of special interest to Jews, paying one-half to three-fourths cents a word after publication; publishes verse; and particularly desires interviews with prominent Jews. *MOHAWK RUG RETAILER (B-M), Syracuse Building, Syracuse, New York. Ralph Richmond, editor. Published by the Mohawk Carpet Mills in the interest of better rug-selling, but in no sense propaganda for them. Pays two cents a word up for articles appealing to proprietors, buyers, and salesmen whose business is rugs; and for feature articles, from $50 to $150. PRIZE STORY MAGAZINE (M), 33 West 60th St., New York. $2.50; 25c. J. W. D. Grant, editor and publisher. The title refers to the fact that authors of the stories in each issue judged best by readers receive prizes in addition to regular payment. Short stories (5,000-7,500 words) and threepart stories (15,000-22,000 words) of adventure, romance, mystery, with strong dramatic appeal are specially desired. RADEX (Six times a year during the winter), The Radex Press, P. O. Box 143, Cleveland, Ohio. $1.00; 25c. Radex, short for Radio Index, publishes all kinds of radio directory information, listing all broadcasting stations by frequencies, wave lengths, call letters, etc., and uses also articles in 500 to 1,000 words in non-technical style for radio listeners who have no knowledge of the technical side of radio. Payment on acceptance at the rate of one-half cent a word for articles, and $1.50 each for photographs. SUNSHINE, The Hawaii Monthly, P. O. Box 1430, Honolulu, Hawaii, U. S. A. $1.00; 10c. Bert Green, associate editor. First issue, July, 1928. To be national, not local in appeal. Material desired: short stories of love, adventure, mystery, preferably of about 2,500 words and Hawaian background; articles on any subject of current, national interest; department items (50-500 words) on automobiles, household, fashion, etc. Payment on acceptance at the rate of one-half cent a word. The fourth printing of this Directory was begun in THE WRITER for July, 1922. Back numbers can be supplied. A set of the numbers from July, 1922, to December, 1927, giving the Directory complete, with additions and changes bringing everything up to date, and much other valuable matter, will be sent for five dollars; with a year's subscription added for eight dollars. THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS The fifth printing of this Directory-which is constantly being revised and enlarged- began in THE WRITER for January, 1928. The information for it, showing the manuscript requirements of the various publications listed, is gathered directly from the editors of the periodicals. An asterisk preceding the name of a periodical indicates that the information has had the editor's "O.K." Items not so marked are as accurate as they can be made, but editorial "O.K." on proof submitted was not received before printing. Before submitting manuscripts to any publication it is advisable to secure a sample copy. (Continued from August WRITER) *BILLBOARD (W), 25 Opera Pl., Cincinnati, Ohio. $3.00; 15c. Don Carl Gillette, editor. A theatrical digest and review of the show world, using articles in 1,500-2,000 words, dealing in a practical, informative, or constructive way with any phase of the theatre or general amusement business. Prints no fiction. Pays a minimum of a cent a word on publication. *BIRD-LORE (B-M), MSS. to Frank M. Chapman, editor, American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and Eighth Ave., New York. Subscriptions to Bird-Lore, Harrisburg, Penn. $1.50; 30c. Devoted to ornithology in all its branches. Publishes contributions describing experiences in bird study. Buys photographs of birds in nature. Does not pay for manuscripts. *BLACK DIAMOND (W), Manhattan Building, Chicago, Ill. $5.00; 30c. Andrew T. Murphy, editor. The official organ of the coal industry, using feature stories in 200 to 1,500 words of interest to retail and wholesale coal merchants, the operating mine owner, or the large user of steam coal. Always in the market for unusual photographs for the weekly pictorial page which would have special interest for the coal industry. Uses no fiction, verse, or humorous matter. Pays on acceptance. BLACK MASK (M), 578 Madison Ave., New York. $2.00; 20c. Joseph T. Shaw, editor. Uses principally detective fiction with some Westerns, Border yarns, and adventure stories. Requires swift movement and clean, virile action. Sets length limit for short stories at 3,000 to 6,000 words and for novelettes at 15,000 words. Pays at the rate of a cent a word up. *BLADE AND LEDGER (M), W. D. Boyce Co., 500 North Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. 25c; 5c. W. F. French, editor. Uses short stories- clean love stories, stories of adventure and of home-articles on home economics and general subjects, and juvenile matter. Sets length limit at 1,000 to 5,000 words, and pays one to three cents a word soon after acceptance, and for exceptional stories, up to five cents a word. Buys photographs at $2 up of subjects of general interest, but no news photos. *BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE (M), Consolidated Magazine Company, 36 So. State St., Chicago, IL $3.00; 25c. Uses stirring fiction in all lengths, short stories, novelettes, and serials, and pays on acceptance. Books (W), 225 West 40th St., New York. $2.00: 5c. Irita Van Doren, editor. The Sunday book-review section of the New York Herald-Tribune. The only solicited material used consists of poems of not more than twenty lines, for which a minimum of $5 is paid on publication. BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER (M), 143 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. $1.00; 15: C. J. Eustace, editor. Uses stationery and book-selling materia with a merchandising slant helpful to dealers. Rate of payment, twenty cents per inch. BOOT AND SHOE RECORDER (W), 80 Federal St, Boston, Mass. $3.00. Arthur D. Anderson, editor. Requires facts, not opinions, in its copy, concerning the selling of shoes, merchandising helps, sales ideas, etc. *BOSTONIAN (M), 24 T Wharf, Boston, Mass. $1.00; 10c. Katharine Crosby, editor. Uses short, local, general articles, very short poetry, humorous verse, and jokes, but no fiction. Desires short, modern, brisk articles of essays on phases of Boston life, which may be critical or satirical, but which must not be illnatured. Constructive material is preferred Sets length limit at 1,200 words, does not buy photographs, and does not pay for manuscripts. *BOULEVARDIER (M-8 nos.) 2008 Washington Blvd. Bldg., Detroit, Mich. $2.50; 35c. Florence E. Cox, editor. Devoted to sports, music, theatre, fashions, gardens, home decoration, travel, etc. Uses general articles, short stories, plays, and poetry, but no serials, novelettes, humorous verse, or juvenile matter. Sets length limit at 2,000 words for short stories, which should be clever and sophisticated. Wants very short plays, and travel articles illustrated with photographs. Pays after publication. *BOY LIFE (W), Standard Publishing Company. Eighth and Cutter Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio., 80c Paul Lappin, editor. For boys from fourteen to twenty. Prints short stories and serials of adventure, mystery, and other subjects of interest to boys, and CONTINUED ON INSIDE BACK COVER AN AUTHORS' MONTHLY FORUM Volume 40 September, 1928 Writing Religious Drama BY ESTHER WILLARD BATES MISS BATES has had an important share in developing the new, but rapidly opening field of religious drama. As professor of dramatic art in the School of Religious Education at Boston University, she has taught the writing and production of pageants and religious plays to many students, whose work, in turn, has been published and is now in use throughout the country. Miss Bates is also the author of numerous pageants and plays, as well as the authoritative text on "The Art of Producing Pageants." HURCHES are an appreciative and loyal C public. They are not fickle. An ac ceptable play grows steadily in popularity, ten years and upwards. Plays advertise themselves through their audiences, and there is no better publicity. A church finding a play to its liking will produce it year after year, and religious organizations will keep the play alive by listing it in bulletins of one kind or another. The chief demand along the line of religious drama is for the one-act play based on a Biblical story, and lasting from half an hour to an hour. Such a play is usually performed in the chancel of the church and takes the place of the customary Sunday evening service. A large number of churches have well-equipped parish house stages; but to be widely used, a religious play should be simple and reverent enough to be staged without scenery in the church itself. Without scenery means only the absence of a set. Trees, benches, canopies, tents, an oriental well, a Number 9 fire in a brazier, a table, and properties of various kinds are entirely admissible. So also is lighting, which by means of concealed spot and flood lights, gelatine slides, and portable dimmers, may approximate professional standards. Darkness at the beginning and end of the play permits the players to enter and withdraw unseen, so no curtain is necessary. After the foregoing limitations are taken into consideration, there are others. Religious drama serves a highly conservative public. Too great a deviation from scriptural traditions is apt to awaken prejudice. Too modern a handling of a theme, too much colloquial speech bordering on the irreverent,these are drawbacks. It is also well for the writer to avoid characters on whom a large number of plays have already been based, such as Ruth, Esther, Mary Magdalene, Moses, Peter, David, Saul, and Judas. Remaining, nevertheless, is a wealth of material. There is in the Bible all |