TRAGEDY IN FILM OFFICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 5

TRAGEDY IN FILM OFFICE

“OH, WELL-” THEN DEATH TALKING ABOUT DYING TO LIVE LONDON, Nov. 11. Mr. Charles B. Williams, a literary agent, died yesterday morning in ijm office of a film company during the disciission of a film story called “Dying to Live.” The conference had been called because “Dying to Live” was stated to have points of resemblance to another story submitted by a well-known scenario writer, Mi*. W. P. Lipscomb, who was present at the conference. Mr. Lipscomb had remarked that, after all, there were only 39 original plots in the world. Mr. Williams, who was formerly manager to Mr. C. B. Cochran and pai manager in the Premier Theatrical Iproduction Co., Ltd., exclaimed: _ Oh, well . . and suddenly collapsed in Ins chair. . . , A doctor, who was immediately sent for, announced that Mr. Williams was dead. , , There have been several (Iranian coincidences of this nature in cinema history. A few years ago Mr. William Friese-Greena, the “father of cinematography,” collapsed from .heart failure during a trade conference while he was making an emotional appeal for unity of purpose to the industry which Ins invention bad created.