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Fannie Hurst, author of "Lummox," is delighted with the way her book promises to emerge on the screen.
C/ANNIE j#URST
StiyS: "Talking Pictures are Here to Stay!"
By Alma T alley
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AM delighted with the way 'Lummox' promises to :merge on the screen. I have not yet seen the completed film, cut, edited, etc., but I did see most of it in the making." Yes, prick up your ears and listen; it's Fannie Hurst talking. Fannie Hurst, the highest paid writer in America, whose yearly income from stories is something we all dream about when we read the success ads. Fannie Hurst, whose fictional characters have animated miles and miles of film.
And this is the author who is actually pleased with what a producer has done to her novel!
You didn't know such things could be, did you? Nor even suspect? The usual picture of an author after view
ing his work on the screen is of a man hesitating between gas and a leap out the window. A man with his teeth all gnashed.
"Is this what they've done to my lovely, beautiful story?" he moans. Miss Hurst herself felt just that way about it some ten years ago when "Star Dust" was filmed.
But now, after the filming of "Lummox," there's not a moan from Miss Hurst. Only a delighted smile. For they have done right by our "Lummox"; her brain child has not been treated like a step-child at all.
Perhaps it's those cursed, but popular, talking pictures which are making things look up for an author. Way, way up. For it says right in the author's book just how