Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh by Marianne Walker

Author:Marianne Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO00700, BIO02500, BIO00600
ISBN: 9781561456505
Publisher: Peachtree Publishing Company
Published: 2011-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

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When rumors started flying that Peggy had gotten $5 million for the film rights, practically everybody wanted money from her. She grew to revile the telephone and the telegram. She was continually being asked to donate cash for memorials, scholarships, awards, orphans, private schools, indigents, and many other purposes. Only she, John, Stephens, and her father knew about Latham’s wire of June 30 stating that the movie rights were being sold for fifty thousand dollars; so she knew the word about the sale got out in Atlanta through the telegraph office. But how did it get out elsewhere? The euphoria she experienced earlier when she received the big check from Brett dissolved into hostility when she was handed a telegram from Annie Laurie. On that same afternoon, Peggy angrily scratched out a letter to Lois Cole. Her words yell off the page: “Feebly I take my typewriter in hand to ask just what the hell Annie Laurie means by jumping on me about rumors that Fox Films had bought the book. At present I am hunting for some one to jump on about all the damn movie rumors which are driving me nuts.”

People are driving me crazy, folks on the relief rolls asking for a hundred because I wont miss it out of my many millions. Friends wondering why in Hell I persist in driving a 1929 model car and wearing four year old cotton dresses and fifty cent stockings and calling me an old Hetty Green to my face. None of these rumors started from me. . . . Finally they got so bad I had the newspapers here deny the rumors in large print.

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