Show GOODWIN WILL STAGE KIPLING'S GREAT BOOK LIGHT THAT FAILED In this era of made book-made plays it has often been a matter of comment that 1 The Light That Failed by far th the most dramatic of ot Rudyard RUdard ard Kipling Kipling's s stories has never been adapted to stage purposes It was rumored at different times that negotiations to this effect were afoot but If so they resulted in failure allure Now however r it i is stated with witha a a. reasonable e show of authority that a a stage version of the tale will shortly see seethe seethe seethe the footlights says bays a London cablegram Nat Goodwin recently became convinced convinced con con- vinced that there was excellent acting material In the book and informed Mr Kipling of ot his wish to acquire the the right to its dramatization While the English poet is said to drive a hard bargain he het evidently saw the he advantages advantage a of haying having del J t the tale t p put on the stage under the fa favorable favorable fa- fa conditions with which the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican artist would be likely to provide It and made tho terms of the concession reasonable Goodwin at once accepted them and now all that remains is to get the project under way It is not at all Improbable that Kipling himself may attend to the adaptation or at least collaborate on It This however Is a phase of f the business not yet settled set settled tied What seems certain is that the story will be dramatized and Its first production take place in America some sometime sometime time during r the coming season n with g Godwin Goodwin In the role ofeD of the hero |