PIRATED NOVEL
SUIT FOR £156,000 WON NEW YORK, July 31. After an eight years’ battle in the courts Mrs Grace Eondler, the aged novelist and playwright, has been awarded judgment against Oliver Morosco, theatrical producer, and Rickard Tully, author, for £156.000. This sum represents her interest in tho profits from the play 1 The Bird of Paradise, which was pirated from her novel entitled ‘ In Hawaii.’ While others rode on the high wave of tho success of her work, Mrs Eencller was all but destitute. She remained unrecognised, supported by friends. She is nearly eighty years of age. _
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Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 4
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98PIRATED NOVEL Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 4
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