Word: drood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Drood was murdered by Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium...
...production are David Copperfield (M-G-M), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Universal...
...story material. Cinema producer have bought production rights to almost every successful play produced in Manhattan since last autumn. Next year's schedules are, more than ever, topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein's monster wil again appear for Universal in The Bride of Frankenstein. Universal...
...Judge" Peck arrived. His son, his sister, his half-brother change from suspects to victims. The "Judge's" delving into the past unearths both the cause and manner of the killing. EPILOGUE-Bruce Graeme-Lippincott ($2). A suggestion for the rest of Dickens' unfinished story of Edwin Drood...
...more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would have received no such handsome price for it. For his first story, published in 1833, he got nothing. For Pickwick Papers, he got ?15 an installment. His last book, Edwin Drood, brought the highest price Dickens ever received from a publisher: ?7,500 for the copyright, ?1,000 for the U. S. rights. A Christmas Carol was a financial disappointment. After two years, only two editions had been sold and the book had earned only ?726, or 11? a word...