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]