Fate and "Chicken Every Sunday"

...Fate and "Chicken Every Sunday" _ __ — a mm iu A sr a*__ ¦]a aituUi pl*ybroker or eager 1<rw but fat* pure and simple guiad th* big hand in bringing to ft, rt*g* Kosemary Taylor's bast 2,,, "Chicken Every Sunday," lSS Edward Gross wi'l present ,t the Henry Miller Theatre on Wansataay evening, April 6. Mr Gross, who hails from Holly weal wheie he ha* boon producing alt aha* fur many years, decided, tooet * year ago, that it was time M branched out for himself...

...The- price roomed to a new high...

...Gross, however, finished the book in one titling and was convinced that hen was just the picture material b* had been seeking...

...Kef ore his offer reached New York, however, the book was accepted hy the Literary Guild...

...The friend acquiesced hut waned that if he was reading the book with it* screen potentials the hi mind, he was wasting time — it was delightful reading hut wouldn't make a pictu.e...

...Other studios felt that the book est too scattered — there wasn't enough of a story...

...Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, Hollywood's top screen writer*, were approached and enthusiastically determined to forego fabulous movie contracts to dramatize the best seller...

...He was convinced that if the warmth and lovableness of the people in the honk could he transferred to the screen, a suc-onsful picture would result...

...At this point the book's author, Rosemary Taylor, with whom Groat had corresponded, wrote...

...Wheie Ut Ant story was coming from, he asset th* faintest idea...

...Chicken Every Sunday" comes to the Henry Miller with a cast headed hy Mary Philips snd Rhys Williams...

...Despite friendly warning.-, therefore, he purchased the lights...

...woks thought that the characters themselves owe so interesting that they could carry a play...

...Some atid that it had no stellar role...

...Th* next day Gross began mak-iaf sseniries as to why the differ-est studios hadn't been in'erested ia "Chicken Every Sunday...

...He read just a few sag**, was struck by the warmth, sated if he might borrow the volume...

...Dropping in at a friend's Hollywood, office last summer, Gross chanced to see the book, whose this, "Chicken Every Sunday," intrigued him...

...that she wanted to meet him...

...Grost countered by saying that the •teller role w- the book itself...

...He a*nsf a* like* to laugh and knows tat value of laughter in life, Gross (are that he wanted to make c**j*Jk*t for the acreen...

...The result of the conference was a deal for both, a play and a movie...