| Show FICTION OBADIAH CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson Nelson was a man of OBADIAH unappreciated For two years he had worked as clerk in the scenario department of Magnificent and had thought up ideas I 1 for pictures which scenario 3 Fiction writers I into scripts and directors produced for a neat Magnificent's most recent had netted the house something over a million Noel who wrote the script received and who thought up the collected his per Ada who occupied a desk next to Obadiah's and who earned a week reading knew what was going on and told Obadiah in no uncertain terms what she thought of was she a man can be such a sucker and still live is beyond Obadiah blushed to the roots of his I didn't do It was just an Idea I had that I mentioned to And Norbert collected for A month later Magnificent began work on Noel Norbert had turned In the script after taking Obadiah to A week after that Ada Adams came into the little restaurant on Sunset boulevard where Obadiah was eating how's Magnificent's a week sucker she tell me Norbert has turned in another box-office success bow's Magnificent's a week sucker Ada asked that you thought up for He's asking for Obadiah's face went Without knowing it Miss Adams had aggravated a wound that she had inflicted five weeks previous with her first scathing comment on Nelson's lack of what it takes to get She astonished when Obadiah suddenly rose without a word and left his cheeks still rather Obadiah was hastening toward the Magnificent began Obadiah want to know why it Is that you pay to Noel Norbert for writing scenarios that I think don't I know It's because you think I'm a sucker without enough backbone to stand up for my let me tell you I you can drive a horse to water but you can't make him willing I Or I'm The Pacific studios have offered me a thousand a week to work for Obadiah breathing and mopped his he guess that's said young you're That half of And he punched a bell button on his ADA was eating dinner in the same little restaurant on Sunset that evening Obadiah came he been raised from a week to I said I'll bet you could have got if you'd gone back to Pacific and told them that Maurice was meeting their said Pacific never offered anything In the first Ada stared In open-mouth she if they said couldn't have thought up ideas for Pacific asked you wouldn't have been said those Ideas I thought up were about you and Just seeing you put them into my Without you 1 couldn't think of In he I can't think of anything with Ada swallowed a scallop goodness she I think you had it In you to propose marriage suid But It's not a bad Idea at |
