£1 BID FOR “KIPPS”
FILM RIGHT TO NOVELS. JEST OF H.G. WELLS’ SON (By Air Mail.) LONDON, Oct. 28. A slight, short, fair young man, ■ camera slung over h'is yello-.v blanket overcoat, yesterday lifted his voice in a film studio and bid for the filmrights of “Kipps,” perhaps the bestloved of all the H. G. Wells novels. And he bid . . . "One pound!” The offer was refused. Whereupon the same young man offered £35 for the screen-rights of "Kipps," "The Country of the Blind,” “Whsals of Chance” and "Pesslonate Friends.” That offer was also refused. The young man was Hr. G. P. ("Gip”) Wells, scientist son of the great novelist, and his offers—made as a joke, of course—occurred during the sale of the old Stoll Film Studios at Cricklewood. who still hold the righU of a great many stories. But the highlight of the sale was the film-rights in 75 stories; by Wella, Wallace, Oppenheim, Orczy, Hewlett, Wodehouse and Tennyson among others. As the sole offers were the jesting bids of young Mr. Wells it was announced taht the sale of the right! would be conducted by private treaty.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 288, 6 December 1938, Page 7
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