Show Tristram Tupper Wrote First Fiction in Chicken Coop He Can Cr Crew w Now HOLLYWOOD Cat Cal Eight AP-Eight years ears ago he was sitting in a chicken coop tryIng to write stories Now he sat under a tree at atthe the tho foot of a 0 mountain b built u i I t for the screen version ot of his latest novel About t that hat chicken co o 0 P P. explained Tri Trio Trio- J tram Tupper It Y 4 wa va not my eccentricity eccentricity ec- ec I centricity t h hat a I I led me to set up I Im m y r 1 f- f U there It was the only place on it the farm where I Ito I could be alonE to write 1 For Tupper went to a farm with the Idea of planting words on paper and reaping reaping reap reap- ing a literary harvest It camE about this way Tupper Ii h a rl d dro dropped ped his law practice to put lut on ona ona a uniform in the World war H Ho lived through eight battles and out a major but peace found foum him with many debts and small chance of rebuilding bind busi- ness He told Ida M. M Ta Tar r ell eli the writer that lie he thought lie he could write rHe and he he could make publishers believe it It if lie he could hide hideaway away asay somewhere and do nothing hut write for a while If th that's ts t's all that worries you she Rhe said theres on old house standing empty on my farm in Con Con- ne t t. t Youre You're welcome to live ive ivein in it I if yo JOU want ant to go up there and write and raise vegetables So Mr and Mrs Tupper went to the country That ho hoUse se said aId Tupper was wag wagan an interesting old place Built about years ago it once wS part ot of the county poor house I 1 that was peculiarly appropriate appropriate under the circumstances It seemed Sem d even more later With winter sinter coming on- on nd nothing but a a rejection slip from fromI I a an important publisher to show for what he had written in the chicken coop Tupper decided he owed it to his wire wife to gol go back to the city and look for more remunerative work worl They packed and left leU but on the way to the train they stopped at atthe atthe the village e postoffice and there was wasa a letter from another publisher ac- ac Tuppers Tupper's first story So they went back to the farm and Tuppers Tupper's typewriter began making triumphant cackling in the chicken coop A few months ago Tupper sold the screen rights to his new novel The River and was asked to come to Hollywood to help with the filming filming- of it A river in the mountains plays the title role in the novel so the studio set created a river with a flow o of gallons gatlon per minute and ancl built a 0 mountain to loom over it Under the tree at the foot of the mountain which Tupper had ImagIned Imag- Imag med Ined the mountain seemed immense ins ins- mense and real lIeal ro 10 cunningly bad bach the set builders handled the per per- Perhaps the novelist vas al getting getting- more o of a thrill out or of movie sets than most novelists might due cue to to the fact that lie he remembered hi his first trip to Hollywood about twenty twenty ty years ago when he saw no movie sets at all only lemon groves and a quaint California village He was a wandering newspaper reporter in those da days s and he was working at a time for It a Los Angeles An- An geles eles morning paper It was the thelast thelast last newspaper job he ever held for shortly after the city edit editor r put him on the hotel beat lie he over over- overlooked looked something on a a. hotel regis regis- t tr r. r rDo Do you know who regIstered at ata a a. downtown hotel last night the city editor sternly inquired next morning No replied Tupper sensing trouble Who only the vice president ot of the United States all I resign n before you ou me exclaimed ex- ex claimed d the young oung reporter with great g presence o of mind And that was hi his last newspaper Job But ho he came came back to California later after a a- a War and some I I in a chicken coop And they bunt built a mountain for him |