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Show engagement that night, augrested his wife ehould mm the dm looking. the play over. The friend returned at 1 o'clock In the morning to dlftrover h)a wife rirrsa4 and anxiously waiting. She Mid ehe read the play and wn afraid to go to bed. The husband took tha May and did tint go to bad at ail. First thing next morning ha tat phonM K II bourn fiordon and at IV dock that night Mr. 'Jortlo and hta aeeoclatee read iha play and at tha t dayhamlad Mr. W I Hard a enact. 7 ' - "Cat and Canarf' Aalhor From Her ' There hi always something faertaiat-tng faertaiat-tng about the story of any author and hla efforta to place a play 'or production. produc-tion. For every play there la ft new lory and the story almoat alwy has romanea and enmetlmee trageijf worm Into IL Tha atory of lo!n Wlllard and bis play, Vt and the Canary." has no tragedy though tha play Itaalf la ft shocker but thera la much romance about It. Wlllard w. la turn newepaoer mail, miner, cowboy, cow-boy, actor and aviator, lie was born In Han rranclaoo and - drifted all through tha West and played rn stock for a lone- time In Halt lha Cliy. Ua had written some aucceaaful yftude-vUle yftude-vUle aketchea and waa rejueetd by ft committee of the Lambs to write for one of the Gambols ft buiieequd on the thrillers eo popular at the no-meat. no-meat. He rajlly drafted ft, plot In outline whlchTie tbouaht woul atr-tle- even tha blaao Umlii. The a'ory concerned a. lrl whose enemtea were trylnr to drive ber Insane to (at lae entate aha had Inherited. " - Reechlng home, Wlllard read the , plot to hla wife. "That a ft fine Second Sec-ond ftot," said aha, "now write ft first and third act and then find ft producer pro-ducer " The Wlllard household was In process of moving from one apft-'t mant to anothen . Yet, In aplte of the fact that the head of the houee had to do hla. writing In odd moment, meanwhile using his lap to reel the typewriter upon, the -play waa rin-lahed rin-lahed In leee than ft week. Many radtrftl changea were made from Ihe original. He alerted the play Oft lis rosnils. but. soft proaiirftf ftltftt u: . other turned It down. In December, he gave It to a friend to read, who, having ft buelneM |