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The number of pictures made either well known novels or known plays is surprising. Skilled und gifted scenario writers earn enormous fees, specially in the United States, and one would imagine that their first obiest would be to turn out original stories directly suitable for film treatment The writer for the stage does not as a rule adapt a novel. Of course there have been dramatizations of novels which have made stage successes, but one does expect the majority of plays to be as original as possible.
Cannot the world produce its Shaws, Barries, Cowards and Dodie Smiths? One knows that absolute originality in any medium is almost impossible, specially if one accepts dictum that there are only six root stories in the world. One raises question because the adaptation r the screen of a book known to ions must be apt to raise discont-Jent in many minds. People love their favourite stories and when they ce them more or s battered about {o make a Hollywood holiday their enjoyment must be modified.
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