Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1931, Page 16

A6 THEF OF STORES SMOVE PROBLEN Test Yarn Going Rounds in| Effort to Trace Those Who Steal New Plots. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. Special Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, July 28 (N.AAN.A)—The season for beaches, sun tan and cool drinks is having a yevival; it is also Hollywood's season for story-stealing, it would seem. Capturing the idea while the author walts to hear whether or not his story has been accepted or rejected is be-| coming increasingly popular. —Agents, heretofore secure in the that their | reputations and the reputation of the studio would be at stake in the event of the ideas in a manuscript being stolen bodily, have had some fast ones put over on them. Stories with a new turn frequently are turned and the “new turn” written into something similar-dissimilar with the chances of a lawsuit being a long-drawn-out af- fair and doubtful in outcome to the author. Many Settlements Made. One studio which went through & very bad year in this regard, due to overanxiety on the part of the writing staff to turn out as many studiomade ; stories as possible, had a good many, suits on its hands two years ago. So many adjustments were made, out of court, that they have bought only well | known published works of late or origi- nal storles accepted outright and with out any shenanigans on their part or any attempt to cheat the writer of the “original” out of what was coming to to of Ernest Hemingway, who just can't be bothered suing a Hollywood studio, it seems as fine a little case of plagiarism as was ever heard of has gone on among us, with the Hemingway story all there, under different title and, of course, with the names of the char- acters changed. Perhaps the lad who is accused of Jifting the Hemingway story felt he had done enough when he went to all the trouble of shifting the locale and the names. (No light job in this hot weather.) A “test” story is going the rounds of the Hollywood studios now. It has an original turn. And the author is watch- ing to see which one of the boys will make an attempt to lift the idea and put it into another tale. If and when such a thing does happen, oh, boy—oh, boy—oh, boy, there is going to be a lot of fuss! Studio Houses Murals. And just to prove that Hollywood is not all cinema and claptrap, a studio in the production center houses the exquisite murals which Dean Cornwall is making for the Public Library of Los Angeles. A great artist is giving five years of his life to perpetuating the story of America in the making. It is one of the most truly magnificent conceptions in form and color that I have ever seen and, contemplating it, one is saddened by the thought of how many careless feet will walk beneath such beauty and how many careless eyes will never glance up at the glory above them. Or—glancing up—will ever realize the exquisite quality of the workmanship or the infinite love and pains which have gone to the making of this thing. A group which included Hal Phyfle, Victor Shapiro and the artist showed me the small sketches, the larger de- tail, the group detail and. finally, the great canvas on which the murals are actually done—the figures from the de- tail being projected with a lamp spe- clally . constructed for the purpose, limned in by assistants and finally the superindifference Tree wheelingly speakin i This Pt of executed, four times life size, by Dean Cornwall. The word studio has come to be as- sociated in my mind with something far different from this. It has come to mean sound stages and projection rooms, round tin cans full of noise, perfect noses, perfect silhouettes, per- fect satisfaction with self. It has come to mean stories patterned on something already read and written, acting pat- terned on something already popularized cither in the theater or other cinemas, and it is all conceived, written, shot and canned in six weeks' time. Then this other studio in Holly- wood, with a great and simple per- sonality working quietly and incon- spicuously at something which will | stand for all time! (Copyright, 1931 by the North American | Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) DOG CAUSES TRAGEDY Man Objects to Barking at Cat.| . Struck Fatal Blow by Boy. | EL PASO, Tex., July 28 (#).—Roy Cooper, 16, had words with H. O. Davis, | 39, because Davis objected to the Cooper dog barking at his cat. The youth struck Davis with a hoe, he said, because Davis | siapped him, The man died of a brain | hemorrhage. Young Cooper is held in | jail charged with murder. | THE EVENING NEW STYLES HAVE RAINBOW COLORING Hues Rivaling Joseph’s Coat Shown at Paris Exhibit in Second Week. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 28.—Multi-colored cos- tumes displaying as many hues as| Joseph's coat—and joining them in combinations that were startling—were exhibited as the last word in Winter chic by couturlers at the opening of the second week of the Fall fashion shows today. Zebra_ striped blouses and frocks, | three-color suits and two-color dresses predicted the importance of color com- | bipations in Winter wardrobes. Blouses Are Striped. | One-color wool skirts had blouses of | stripes of various widths, fitted on the | diagonal. Navy skirts and wine-red, white and blue striped blouses. And wine-brown skirts had green, brown and wine-purple blouses. A suit with a fitted peplum jacket had an aubergine (eggplant) gored wool skirt, dull pink crepe tuck-in blouse and a carnation-red wool jacket. A sapphire-blue pebbly wool suit with semi-fitted jacket had a mauve-pink tunic blouse. Brick-colored wool frocks were ex- hibited with full-length garnet-red wool coats and emerald-green dresses with sapphire-blue coats. Red Leads Dress Colors. ‘The outstanding dress color was red, | varying in shades from geranium and | brick to deep copper and wine. A great number of black dresses also were shown. Dresses as yet display no drastic change in silhouette. They are de- signed with natural waistlines, square | or round necks, long elaborate sleeves and long fitted hips, with skirts releas- ing pleated or gored fullness at the | kneeline. | Street coats stressed rough wool fab-' rics and wrap-around belted lines. | Some coat models had draped scarf col- lars and others were furred. | With the increasing use of the bus, | women of the lower class in Haiti are taking to the wearing of shoes and stockings because they do not have to | carry the covering until near town be- | fore putting them on as they did when | they made the journey on foot. | GUARDIAN IS ASKED FOR RICH FLORIDAN Wife Charges Mann Act Guilt Against Victor A. Searles of West Palm Beach. By the Assoclated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 48. —Mrs. Victor A. 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