Show Poet Says Films Harm Writers Story Sold to Movies Is Like Corpse Briton Declares CHICAGO Jan 28 The AP-The lure of the films tempting with tame and fortune is causing many writers to sell sell theIr divine birthright birthright birth right Cecil Roberts Enl 1 sh poet and novelist told members of the English Speaking union hero here I have ye yet to meet an au th 01 no matter how famous whoa Is ia not pleased please to have one of h his s stories filmed Mr 11 Roberts said Yet this Is one of the the most most dangerous tendencies tendencies ten ten- among novelists today When their story Is sold for fol filming it might be compared to n. n corpse for it is immediately dissected dissected dis- dis arid and loses all resemblance to its ts former self When then n. n writer has sold and subscribed his name to a product which Is no longer his he gradually loses his essential integrity It Itis is a wel story i in London London Lon Lon- don that John Galsworthy saw the filming of one of his book along with several other pictures and failed to recognIze which was his o own t. t |