The New York herald., 1922-06-04
DOYLE'S MONSTERS
| CLAIMEDBY OWNER
Herbert M. Dawley Says
NJ Patent on Dinosaurs Has
n Been nfringed.
SIR ARTHUR ABSOLVED
Showing to Magicians
Probably Harmless, but
Unfair, Is Charge.
ENGLISHMAN FACES SUIT
Jersey Man Tells How He
Made PrehistOrics With
Rubber Muscles.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dis
played to the Society of American
Magicians on Friday night strip of
the film of the tyrannosaurs, tracho-
dons. triceratops, titanotheres. pely-
cosaurs. cotylosaurs. brontosauruses.
rnesozoic and even earlier reptiles that
compose the cast of his movie. THE
Lost World" he maneuvered himself
into an extremely likely lawsuit.
Herbert NJ Dawley of Chatham.
N. j., declared last night that the trick
of making the prehistoric actors that
Sir Arthur employs in "The Lost
World" is his and that the United
States Patent Office has granted him
the sole right to manufacture the re-
markable creatures.
Moreover, Mr., Dawley said that the
patent he holds includes the materials
of which the beasts are made and the
methods of articulating the skeletons
and covering the bones with rubber
muscles.
"someone Else to Blame"
Mr.. Dawley says that Sir Arthur is
not to blame. He contended that he
cam show that a former employee Of his
may be. responsible for the alleged in
fringement and that it is wholly posi-
BILE that even the producer of Sir Ar
thurs "The Lost World is an innocent
party to a great mistake.
Mr.. Dawley asserted that the process
of creating dinosaurs for the films cost
him much time and money. He said
that he spent at least month in the
Academy OF Natural History, where
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. the pres
ident. and Frederic A. Lucas. the direc-
tor, gave him the freedom OF the place
that he might study the bony structure
of dinosaurs.
In his own laboratories in Chatham
he made the tough flexible skin fabric
and worked out the Arm rubber material
that goes to make the muscles or the
great beasts. He declared that hi
\ dinosauria is made in miniature and sc
photographed that the reptiles appear
on the screen in correct proportion II
! order that the illusion to the beholdel
4 might be complete. His first films were
z! Geological Society, said Mr.. Dawley. ane
J the assembled scientists were honestly
enthusiastic.
Two Pictures Already Out.
Mr.. Dawley asserted that he will con
| suit his lawyers at once and take sucf
| steps as they may oeem advisable. HI
/ added:
"I am 10th to embarrass Sir Arthur
I because l am quite certain that he !:
utterly innocent. However. I have m,
ewn patents to protect ! have two sucf
pictures on exhibition now. One of then
is The Ghost of Clumber Mountain ant
the other Along the Moonbeam Trail.
! Both were produced In Chatham. 81
Arthur's lm was made out In Cali
fornia."
An effort to impart the news to Sii
Arthur failed. His secretary said tina
nc could say nothing about 1t, and tina
the whole matter was in the hands o
the producer. Just who the producer i
could not be learned certainly, although
Sir Arthur. in letter to Harry Houdini
president of the Society of American
I Magicians, declared tnat it was due z
I the courtesy of Watterson Rothaker tina
he was able to show the assembled
miracle workers his leaping. fighting
/ courting and canabalistic dinosauria.