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Show Can Walter's Pen Recoup Fortune? BUQ6NE WALTER 51-CEPING IN fA.Rt5 mm tsT ' V. ,f I .11 CHARLOTTE -UALKE.R VEALTH AND LUXURY I ( 51 " 's NINA WHITMOME BANKRUPTCY COURT j Adversity Makes Popular Writer Produce His Best V K. A. iaff eelal. 'XKW YOU K, Jan. 11. liroadway Is wondering whether 1 : u g e n e Walter will be able to write another master drama and thus rebuild his fortune. The playwright and producer Is awaiting a hearing on his bankruptcy petition. He gave his liabilities as 7470, .with no assets. His dbtg Included In-cluded $UU0, borrowed from Iavid le-lasco le-lasco and other theatrical people. Walter as a playwright does his best work when he's broke. He w-as sleeping on park benches In New York when he was writing "I'aid in Full." Ho didn't have a cent. In his Jeans when he finaly soid it. Than money poured in. HK(OM) I'l.AV Kfr,R.OR. Walter, spurred 1? success and TtvwT producers. soon turned out "The Fastest Way." Hut many critics regarded re-garded it as inferior to "Fa Id in Full." Walter married Charlotte Walker, the actress They parted, hut became reconciled after Nitia Whitmore. another actresa, demanded $,".0,00u from Waiter on the charge t hat he struck her. alter turned from play writ ing to1 producing. Ilia bankruptcy suit Is the result, adversttv he may still produce the Fis f nendM s. v under the lash of Great American Drama. |