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It was learned yesterday that E. F. Craig '25, song writer, who recently exposed the "Weary River" song theft to the CRIMSON, is at resent in New York City where he is completing arrangements to bring suit against Louis Silvers for using one of the songs from the 1925 Hasty Pudding Show for the current Richard Barthelmess movie production. Craig has as his lawyers Paul N. Turner, who is the most prominent attorney in America to handle cases for authors and actors. Turner is bringing a combined suit in Craig's name against Warner Bros. Company and Irving Berlin, who later copyrighted the song illegally, and a separate damage suit against Silvers. The suit against Silvers will be the more serve because he did the actual copying and then turned the tune over to Warner Bros.
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