| Show pi I f I 1 l t L b C iii i When Real Melodrama With Royal Intrigues and Death I Threats breau Up Upend and end Bites Producer Producer That's That That's News NEW YORK YORK This This Is a a. tale somo some twenty years oJ old to told d mo me by Tommy Tommy Tom Torn my Davirs the tho other night In the shadowed corner of a a. night resort Its It's about Owen Owenj j Davis the I play play- la 4 I j wright who has w written r I t ten more dramas than you jou 1 fare are fa years old even I If It f you OU happen to tobo Lc bo be Zaro Agha I And about Al AlWood Woods Wood tho the faC famous fa fa- fa C Broadway producer TV who ho started on tho the New York streets 1 with little or ox nothing and now new has twice as ns much And the tale goes goos like this It was at a a. time when the cm- cm press ress dowager of ot China v was as i in bad standing landing with certain other royal groups A concerted propaganda effort was being made to discredit the tho lio empress in tho eyes of oC th tho world Scores of ot were T hither and yon ron over the globe lobe to spread stories of her shortcomInGs short- short comInGs And a n. number of ot them came camo to America AmerIc They attended tho the universities uni- uni and mixed with tho the better people eople They appear to have badan had bad hadan hadn an n unlimited spending fund and used It Furthermore thc they were able ble to send back home for such amounts mounts as were necessary to aid their heir campaign S S S SOne One Ono cIa day when Davis ls was a mere working fi figurine around the Woods getting his career carier under Va way Ito o e noticed a a. well dressed intelligent looking young Chinese sitting In Inthe inthe the 10 waiting room For several days dars he ho noticed tho the same oung man there Ho lie mentioned It Ito to o Woods Oh its it's Just Some come Su guy with a n alay J play lay hunch But upon tho the next day Davis ls stopped to talk with tho the stranger hat w were re tho the chances tho the stran stranger strang- strang er r asked o of setting getting a a. play written Now Nowhere hero was the Idea and idea and th the young princes had a a. goodly sum o ot of money money and and they would send to China for tor fabulously lo el lovely costumes costumes costumes cos cos- costumes direct from irom the royal households Tho The play o or of course had to present tho the empress In a ridiculous light The empress meant nothing In the life lICe of Davis But a backed play did He Me s sat t down and wrote roto The Th Marked Woman And in duo time costumes of or such value alue came from Crom China that the duty was Tho The cast was chosen the play put together together and and they opened in ins Pitts burg burs S S S SA A few tow days after the open opening In a a. note noto came to Woods Unless that play piny is closed within two days tho the men who aro are I putting up tip tho the money wen well well known to us us- us will bo ho killed And it was signed The Allied Tongs Tones or something lil like Uke e that Woods sent a no polite reply to the effect that one of or a producers producer's rs r's first duties Is to tho the playwright The g d I pia play had been I written tune time had I boon been spent and andS and'S S C I t the h e playwright was entitled to a showing and anti a I 1 tim chance I Mit A couple of or d' d 00 days dars more pa passed sed and a noto note that L went vent something Ir j fr like this came camo to II I I t tho h o I producers producer's rT j I desk deak We nc o ha waited walt wait r I n p I ed 1 some ai time for j that pi play to bo It is still being produced if It it is still going by b tho the end of this week the bod body of ot Mr M- A. A II ir Woods will be found with throat slit alit floating in the Harlem Har liar lem lam river The drama so SOd soon n removed Indicating that tho story if it In any particular true shows hows that melodrama mob melo drama can c come me right up and bite bile bilea a producer Which according to tho the old formula ii li news GILBERT nT SWA SWAN Copyright G 1130 tEA EA Service Inc |
