Show f i playwright Hangs Self Sef hile hiIe Acting Out Plot EW ORT BEACH Cat Cal Dec The INS flair for drama draia of n nt writer lUred lifted and playwright I brought about his Ui Ith abOard his yacht acht Gay Lady Ie w was found han hanging ing from a Un am in the cabin of the Gay Lady am a.m. Police I Were told b by his widow ly that tIt t often acted plots of his movies movies- plays 4 I nOVels to get the proper feel hey Ity accordingly listed his death fi The authorities theorized that born playwright and t. t ot of Hollywood's Hollywoods nt top writers through th motions of simu- simu ng g a or hanging for his novel There w was evidence that qt Lt a a. a work Ik on his novel to rope and Cord into a S lIthen then evidently noose id d ly mounted a chair slung the end nd of the thc r rope the beam tying it firmly fl i. i ci I The Thc chair slipped and the playwright playwright playwright play play- wright apparently met a slow and agonizing death His body was found b by his sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter Mrs G. G G. G Stone of Newport Beach The tragedy occurred near the section m of Newport harbor where the yacht Mary E. E blew up and sank Bank in March 1947 killing wealthy Mr and Mrs Walter Valter E 38 had been under contract contract con con- tract to Columbia Pictures Inc since 1942 The studio said that his screen credits included Thousand Thousand Thousand Thou sand and One Nights The Bandit Ban dit of oC Sherwood Forest The liThe Voice of the Whistler The Thc Walls Came Tumbling Down The Swordsman and Gallant Blade Since last July had been beer on leave of absence from the th studio to devote his full fun time tc to writing plays designed for Broad way t |