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...Konrad Bercovici, who had charged Charles Chaplin with copping the idea for The Great Dictator from him, didn't get the $6,450,000 he sued for, but he did all right. After nine days in court (during which Bercovici displayed a Bercovici script about dictators and Chaplin said he had never seen it), the novelist and the comic settled things by agreeing that 1) The Great Dictator was Chaplin's idea, and Chaplin had all rights to it; 2) Chaplin could have the movie rights to two Bercovici stories; and 3) Bercovici could have...
...Life," said Charles Chaplin, on his 58th birthday, "begins at 50. ... The middle years are the mellow ones [without] agonies and tensions." Next day, a Manhattan court recorded a $6,450,000 damage suit against him. After seven years of brooding about the matter, Author Konrad Bercovici claimed that Charlie had "pirated" a Bercovici yarn as the basis of The Great Dictator...
Substitute for Murder (by William Jourdan Rapp & Leonards Bercovici; William Harris Jr., producer) will probably win no championships even in the featherweight division. Originally titled Oedipus Wrecks, it concerns a pair of mischievously psychopathic youngsters who resent the appreance of a prospective stepfather, fill him full of liquor, send him up as a stowaway on an endurance flight. But the stowaway comes down, thus definitely deflating the younsters' scheme and, incidentally, Substitute for Murder...
Present editor is a Harvardman named Howard V. L. Bloomfield. Under him Adventure maintains the Hoffman tradition: "A Man's Magazine. Clean and Decent. Free from sex. Action. Nothing in the decadent line." Clean and decent contributors to Adventure have included George Jean Nathan, Ellis Parker Butler, Konrad Bercovici, Octavus Roy Cohen. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Albert Payson Terhune. the late Edgar Wallace. It was the first U. S. magazine to sponsor Rafael Sabatini...
...York Evening Post's corner?the Old Couples' Christmas Fund. No one under 60; not one's had a decent meal since last Christmas. Documents to prove it; every case investigated. Better than ever before?older, poorer, sicker, more miserable. Testimonials by Fannie Hurst, Rex Beach, Konrad Bercovici, Frank...