Eustace Hale Ball Explained

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]
• The Voice on the Wire (1917)^[9]
• Beyond the Rainbow (1922), adaptation^[9]

External links

• Findagrave entry

Notes and References

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