Rose v. Connelly

(sitting as District Judge pursuant to statutory designation) .

The claim of plagiarism herein seems to me quite fantastic. The two plays differ in plot, in character interest, in background, in general purpose and intent — in short, in substantially all points of reader or theatre interest. Plaintiff’s lugubrious drama has a somewhat pretentious, though not unified, story. First we find the heroine and her employer in his business office arranging a mutual seduction; next we find her as mistress of his home, where he dies suddenly as his wife returns. Then in the second act the scene shifts…