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individual" asking for an explanation bring no reply. He wondered if he could resubmit the script to another company, providing he secured witnesses' signatures to prove it was his, and if the first company could take any legal steps in case the play was again produced. In his letter was also the question : "Is there any way that an author can protect fraud concerns from taking and producing his submitted scenarios?"
The writer didn't tell us the name of the company, or even hint at the identity of the "certain individual," but it makes little difference, for we will consider the principle of the thing only. To begin with, we doubt if it was one of the established companies, for the last question he asks makes us believe that it was a "wildcat" concern, with a name gained through "stock-sale" advertising.
Granting that it was one of the big companies, however, and that the play was produced from his script, we will work it out for the benefit of the writer and others who may have similar troubles.
The weak spot, as all those who have been in the game for any length of time easily' realize, was the fact that the writer submitted the script to a "certain individual" rather than to the scenario department of the company We are in position to state that had he submitted in the correct way to any of the established companies the letter would never have been written, for there would have been no need for it. Editors and readers are responsible, and are carefully chosen for their position bv