Eustace Hale Ball
American screenwriter
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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]