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...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...
...Words announcing the separation an inexplicable offense. Not all Dickensians will agree with Author Leacock that the circumstantial description of Paul Dombey's death is too strong meat for modern literary stomachs; but all should be interested in his ingenious theory of how Dickens meant to finish Edwin Drood. In his concluding pages Biographer Leacock unbosoms himself of sentiments that would have warmed the cheeks of Egotist Dickens: ". . . The name of Dickens has not yet been put where it belongs. Whole courses are devoted to Shakespeare, a man-or a collection of men-of far lesser genius...
...exhibition will attempt to portray the story of Dickens' writing and acting from his first play "Strange Gentleman!", which was produced at the St. James Theatre in London in 1836, until he died while in the middle of his novel. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Many of the posters are wood-cuts while others are printed in much the same fashion as those of today. Several of the posters attempt to give the story of the play by means of a series of pictures giving scenes from the play. Inasmuch as nearly all of Dickens' novels were dramatized...