PLAGIARISM SUIT DISMISSED
ALLEGATIONS ABOUT “REBECCA”
(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Federal Judge John Bright to-day dismissed the plagiarism suit against the English author, Daphne du Maurier. which alleged that the bestselling novel “Rebecca” was based partly on works by the late Edwina Levin "MacDonald. He found that Miss du Maurier never had access to the two works of Mrs MacDonald, “Blind Windows” and ‘I Planned to Murder My Husband.” Judge Bright added: “There is' nothing in Miss du Maurier’s testimony which seemed to me false or improbable and I accept it.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25394, 17 January 1948, Page 7
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