The Press: Film Book

Customarily the path of good fiction in the U. S. runs from East to West. A book is published in Manhattan and the story sold to Hollywood. Last week witnessed the process reversed. Out of Hollywood came a scenario, The Mighty Barnum, in book form.

The idea is credited to Publisher Pascal Covici of Covici, Friede. Visiting Hollywood last summer he watched the filming of The Mighty Barnum with his good friend, Author Gene Fowler. Publisher Covici secured rights to print the script of The Mighty Barnum...

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