Show TWO MILLIONS PAIO MILLIONS RAID FOR MOVIE ABIE-MOVIE ABI ABlE f MOVIE OVIE RIGHTS Former Fonner Chorus Chonis Girl Gains Untold Wealth From Her Play PlaT NEW YORK TORK Feb By 26 2 By The Associated ted Anne Anne Press Ann Nichols today sold the th film rights of ot the play Ables Irish Rose Roe to the Players Lasky corpora corpora- corpora tion corporation The Th price was not officially announced but It was va learned on good authority that the th contract called tor for a 8 down payment of subsequent and and Install Installments ments totaling U MIss Nichols Is also to receive royal roal tic royal ties She Is is reported to have hav reCeived some spine In royalties from stage production prod of the th play which seven companies still till arc portraying S Seven ven years ago aeo Miss ss M Nichols was a chorus ls hor girl getting 19 II II a week and ond lucky to hold her Job S O r rY 26 20 Sho She w wa-i wa a born In Dale Dales 26 years ears ago apo roand and at the th ago afo of 19 bent on becoming I a great tragedienne she Bhe h mado made her stage debut lid A as a a chorus girl In the Shepherd King ICIng She SIso Sh was wall start start- started started cd ed at 18 K a week but Instead ot of taking New York Tork by storm as M she had hoped the th first attention she received from the th management WD w-s w a I salary cut of or U 15 5 Liter Later she oh played small parts In motion pictures In the th old Vita Vita- Vita graph studio In Brooklyn return return- returnIng return return-Ine Ing to the th stage now JOW and d then for bits In musical shows Then she homet met Fiske Fisko OHara O'Hare- and trouped with his IsIs company company tor for seven years During t this ls time tinie tim she that acting was WI wa not her strong point anti ana sho h wrote seven plays play which OHara O'Hare produced rod 20 IT FL Finally she sh wrote Able In Able In five days das According to Rialto rumo rumor and set about procuring a 8 producer er Cr Twenty of the leading lel pro pro- producers producers pro producers rejected It and at last MIss Nichols scraped together the th necessary rice essary m ney and became becam her own manai- manai That was WM In 19 1122 1922 Since that time tim persons are aret t estImated to have hav paid to see sea e the play The Th filming of ot ith the play will be made In the th cast eMt lis It production and exploitation being supervised I joIntly by Miss Ml Nichols Ichols and Adolph president ot of o the th Famous Lasky Las Lasky y corporation |