Theodore Pratt Collection
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…Several weeks ago…
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Various notes and newspaper clippings
Full Text: Box 507 Boca Raton. Florida Dec . 21, 1945 ·1r. T .eodore Pratt Box 5'7 Boo rtaton, Florida Dear Me: ·S everal eeks ago I began to work on the idea ·:for literary tnaterial, for r Jugazi ne usc and .ultima. tely a book,. to be based upon the general …
The Spanish River Area
Type: Text
Year: 1969, 1969
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: • t Original manuscrupt, signed by the author, of the mon~graph: THE SPANISH RIVER AREA By THEODORE PRATT I 11 ,. THE SPANISH RIVER AREA By THEODORE PRATT Boca-Hi, Inc. 4 720 S. Ocean Boulevard, Highland Beach, Florida. 33444 ,,. Theodore Pratt, the~ …
Handsome
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: G205 ,.z :c C CII 0 ~ ffl ...::c ffl 0 C 0 -a ,, ffl e -I : T I A GOLD MEDAL GIANT 35c HANDSOME A doctor's diagnosis: Recently, Theodore Pratt explored the phenomenon of nymphomania in his novel THE TORMENTED. Now, in HANDSOME, he reveals the motivation, …
Marked Man
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: MARKED MAN My further reception in Florida when I first came here was occasioned by my then still having a New York license on my car. Thie might have been letters 'a la Hawthorne's famous story, The Scarlet Letter, to brand me, as far as having a private …
Miss Dilly Says No
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $2.50 MISS DILLY SAYS NO by Theodore Pratt MISS DILLY SAYS No , THEODORE PRATT In this new novel, certainly far different from any previous story about Hollywood, Theodore Pratt returns to the happy vein of his delightful Mr. Winkle Goes to War, whose …
Published Letters to Editor
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Clippings from magazines, various dates
Full Text: JUN 14 1 , Concerning 11 Witness" AT A TIME when general literary criticism is at so low an ebb as to be largely meaningless, permit me to congratulate you and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., [SR May 24] on his penetrating and scholarly comment on "Witness." Mr. …
Mercy Island
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: First draft, not to be suhnit ted, o:f - - MERCY ISLAND r (A Play in Three Acts) By TID.X> DORE .PRATT (author of nBig Blow") Address. Virginia Rice 18 East 41 Street New York , N. Y. Structure: I think the first act i in pnetty good shape. tarts with an …
The Vanished People
Type: Text
Year: 1960, 1960
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original article manuscript; Article printed in Frontier Times
Full Text: They had a civilization unexcelled by any other Indian clan. Yet they could not survive. Why? By THEODORE PRATT A MONG THE GREATEST of unsolved mysteries of all time is why the prehistoric cliff dwellers and desert-living Hohokam Indians of the American …
The Story of Boca Raton
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: • Original Manuscript of the First Edition: THE STORY OF BOCA RATON By TH30D01Z PR.TT THE STQ.Y OF BOCA RATON ~_;) THEODORE PRATT e Patt n Publ i cations Box 527 Boca Raton , Florida I I Copyright, 1953, by Theodore Pratt Copyright, 1947, by the Curtis …
Miss Dilly Says No
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original manuscript of: MISS DILLY SAYS NO By THEODORE PRATT ' 'J i ¥- 1 --1 ✓ MISS DILLY SAYS NO THEODORE PRATT I 1 V T-0 BE POB:a.J:-SHEB-rniiY: I* 1-94~-~ DUELL, SLOAN & PEARCE NEW YORK ) ) -- - - '/t Note toed manuscript There are headings · of no …
Film versions of his books
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida by Theodore Pratt It has become a cl~che that an author never likes the film versions of his books. This has been so well established that, in the higher-toned literary circles, particularly the …
Indiscreet
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: J I 1 INDISCREET By THEODORE PRATT / ''J" -.l - i ! t .! • I NDI S CRE E T By THEODORE PRATT 1 54 , 000 words. North American Book Rights Only. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Del r ay Beach , Florida 33444 ., Other Works by Theodore Pratt. Those marked …
Living Gold
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: L I VI NG GOL D By THEODORE PRATT 5600 words. First North American Serial Rights Onlyo Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida ( L I VI NG GOL D By THEODORE PRATT The three men stopped at the edge of the pr~ eo From this spot, which marked …
The Flame Tree
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original manuscript THE FLAME TREE By THEODORE PRATT I j ~ ~£: 'I I / THE FLJ•ME TREE By THEODORE PRATT ... 1 J. ~ , --p 0' I/' J lVI ·· ; i) ' ) ~ ;· ( . t. • c,j; • , C tllt 1 , ~l) 11.t 1 /or k. · • .~ ' ~. .pt ~ I p~~lished ' ~\ r. '' ..r Alternate …
Metropolitan Drought
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ' ..I I ·1., I Theodore .t'ratt ,... 312 Third Ave. So • J, I Lake Worth, Florida _; I, METROPOLITAN DROUGHT fost 1;-5th Street, New York City, 1;,.ras ,being dug up to put in ;1 new water mains and I,· aloY1g a,ccust 1 m1 cc~ to k ·v lL.[· ✓~-th tl1e …
Frog and Turtle Derbies
Type: Text
Year: 1936, 1936
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in Today
Full Text: FROG AND TURTLE BY THEODORE I N the welter of all kinds of sports conduct.e d in a highly-professional, solemn and sophisticated manner, it is agreeable to contemplate two minor but attractive sports belonging to America's age of innocence. These two are …
Southern Accent
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A Nsvelette -- SOUTHERN By ACCENT THEODORE PRA'.I.1T 8,000 words. First North American Serial Rights in English Only Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida SOUTHERN By ACCENT THEODORE PRATT George Dickenson, hitchhiking in Florida back to …
Prayer Line
Type: Text
Year: 1935, 1935
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A short-story: PRAYER LINE By THEODORE PRATT Second serial right-s.; Published in the New Yorker, 1935, also worked in author's novel, BIG BLOW, 1936,which was re-issued as a paperback by Avon in 1950 undir> title MY BRIDE I N THE. STORM. 1500 words. …
Spanish Fishing Village
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. SPANISH FISHING VILLA …
Big Blow
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: .... ' _ . ', ' "'\ 5-A \ ' \ \ " BIG BLOVi n by Theodore Pratt National Service Bureau Federal Theatre Project Works Progress Administration I I /I . ~' '/ f ., T: .IORB 11\lff &&r mm1 m mmm tor. PIML 1t!JIA!BI l&Oil9TI POI••· 1 • · , g1•• 1 f .. { the l …
Handsome and the Beautiful Sculptress
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: HAMDSOiiE AND 'J:HE BEAUTIFUL SCULPTRESS •By THEODORE PRATT Handsome walked along Eighth Street, the main street of Greenwich Village. He bad always tsanted to eee the Village. tar.be was a little disappointed 1n it. So He had gone to several of' the …
The Dark Age
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE DARK i\.GE FROM LEAH SALISBURY 234 WEST 44TH STREET NE'W' YORK THE DARI AGE (A play of Alchemy, and Witchcraft in three acts.) ■agio, By Theodore Pratt 1 If you wish to know more than you should, you will be deceived by the old seducer.• --Saint …
The French Butler
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: rHE FRENCH BUTLER 1 Bl? 7'~ ✓. Miss Dennis was flattered when Mrs. Dalyample invited her to dinner at her apartment on Park Avenue, though she knew she shouldn't be. Mrs. Dalyample was a rich widow, as fat as she was fatuous, and M;ss DAnnis knew her …
The Paperbound Book Revolution
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: \ \ Theodore Pratt Route 1, Bex 818 Delray Beach, Florida :Fci annieersary issue cf ~A,IETY I By Thee dore Pratt , '"" The paperbound bock revoluftion continues, gathering speed . even the hardbound publishers ar At first they weren ' t . Now fully aware …
Bill Shakespeare
Type: Text
Year: 1954, 1954
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original article manuscript published in Variety
Full Text: By THEODORE PRATT Bill Shakespeare, the theatre na , has a 1 n lie comes into the lives of ev~rybody named Prr.tt , the grave. of T ich I run e. In ill's expression, "prat," which meai.,t the anatomy. lays. 11 reach from i ether 11 was an ..,.lizaboth an …
Espionage in the Balearics
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The American Mercury
Full Text: ~ I , October WINOUIIMllt The~merican Soc1AL SEcURITY-F1cT10N DR--F ACT? by Abraham Epstein ,, Why Germany Endures Hitler S. Miles Bouton Prophets Without Honor: 1914-1934 Ferdinand Lundberg Surrender By Sympathy Jules Romains The Soviet "Dictatorship" …
The Maison of Madame Laporusse
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE MAISON OF MADAME LAPORUSSE By THEODORE PRATT From th public press and travellers returned from France, I understand that French houses or prostitution have been totally outlawed and mostly abolished. I make no comment on the moral or sociological …
Seminole
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: SEMINOLE en BY THEODORE PRATT "'3 --z 0 r- "' SEMINOLE BY THEODORE PRATT UFP CLARK WEAVER, Editor of Players Magazine, SAYS: Playwrights cannot come into being without theatre. The drama, Seminole, as conceived by its author, Theodore Pratt, is further …
Jota
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Alternative title: The Dancer
Full Text: 5 , 000 words C JOT A By Theodore Pratt The dancer, the moment she darted, with a click of castanets, onto the stage, looked somehow familiar to Scottie Howard. Sitting close to the footlights in the Barcelona cabaret, he watched her, knowing she had been …
The Golden Years
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: … Florida Atlantic University Digital Library … http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ …
Mr. Thurtle's Trolley
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $2.50 -~les MR. THURTLE'S TROLLEY by Theodore Pratt For thirty-two years Mr. Andrew Thurtle had been the crotchety bachelor conductor of Betsy, the hob-tailed redand-yellow trolley car, and Mr. Frank Winch had been his faithful motorman. When the era of …
The Pensioners
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: … Florida Atlantic University Digital Library … http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ …
Smash-Up Censorship
Type: Text
Year: 1963, 1963
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Febo 1963 These four paperback volumes compose a curiosity. One copy each of the original first edition SEMINOLE and SMASH-UP were given to the library of the Palm Beach County Historical Society in the Flagler Museum by Jack Clarke, Dunbar Road, Palm …
Florida Cracker for Christmas
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes correspondences to editors.
Full Text: FLORIDA CRACKER FOR CHRIST& I By THEODORE PRATT Approximately 800 words. Theodore Pratt Route 1, • Rox 801 , . Delray Beach, Plorida 33444 LO.IDA CRACKBR OR ~HRISTMAS in 1934 t er wer. s i 1 many· Crack r people around my · south. ast ., ection~ Si.nee …
Time Hangs Heavy
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: TIME HANGS HEAVY By THEODORE PRATT 'When the elderly Grangers, Nellio and Fred, crone from Iowa to live theil:" last years in the 3'.'.etirement town of Palm Haven, Florida, thy found juat about what they want din a house to suit them . we r e simple. …
I Adopted Her Child
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I I ~ I ADOPTED HER CHILD I knew it the minute I saw Janice Styles a gain. I saw that she was the mother of my adopted child, my darling Tommy. And I was sure, even though Janice herself didn't realize it jus t then, that she would try to take him away …
Mr. Thurtle's Trolley
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original manuscript of: MR. THURTLE'S TROLLEY By T'flEODORE PRA t:,r < ~ -- ~~~~ Published by Duell, Sloan ,& Pearce, New York, 1947 ,I , / \l ~~ \ ,.,J .. '\, \ I ( Joung Mr . Andrew Thurtle was currying a horse out in front of the Kaneka Livery Stables. …
The Hohokam Dig
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: HE BOHO t first th th ws jok od rn In in THEODORE PRATT to c1 nti ts thought th o e of their fri nd did not hit tt ck did. org Sidn y Hunt thbut tur l Hi tory 1 r us • ind of ancient hair that be11 d hi 11 nt t ~yh r con truct dab ut , , being th ws co to …
Horace's Atom
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ,. H rac alo t ro n Preble • c 8 It r t y of 1 o but lls ODORE P TT at on park C l d ot g t i t By d true lar n G or re tin. • • y Hor c enj yd 1 11, ild, n t i at, uddled fl i 1 Sitt 0 ra ly, at park t d a •t gin, th ore d N re • sat, H UC C rac i dl hy …
The Flame Tree
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $3.00 THE FLAME TREE By Theodore Pratt Author of The Barefoot Mailman, The Big Bubble, etc. THEO PRATT No chapter in the story of America is more colorful than the opening up of Florida about the turn of this century. And no one is better qualified to …
The Race Pendulum Swings Too Far
Type: Text
Year: 1968, 1968
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: 1800 words. First North American ser_ial rights only. Periodical copyright to be made in name of author, who requests final proof to be shown to him, and no changes without his written consent. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 …
Wax Works
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I WAX WORI{S (An Unreality in Three Parts) The eoene ie laid in a very bad waxworks, a second-rate I counterpart of the old Eden Musee of New York now ignominouely / relegated to Coney Island, the lamented Mada.me Taasaud's in I I London, the Panoptioum …
L'Opera
Type: Text
Year: 1944, 1944
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt, Route 1, Box 801, Delray Beach, Florida. This story \ appeared in PERILS IN PROVENCE, by Theodore Pratt, copyright by Theodore .Prat t, 1944. It originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine SQme years before that; The New Yorker retains …
Life is Queek in Mexico
Type: Text
Year: 1964, 1964
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ·"' QUEEK / JJ By Theodore Pratt Before we went to Mexico -we were warned by _friends and the guidebooks to take a lot of patience along with us to the ~ tra.di tional land of ma.nane.. If we wanted things done fast, we were advised, it would be better …
Auction
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A short-story -- A U C T I ON By THEODORE PRATT 3000 words. First North American Serial Rights Only Theodore Pratt 3502 E. Harvard Street Phoenix, Arizona AUCTION By THEODORE PRATT There were five art gallery auctions in the Florida retirement town of …
Big Sunshine
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: BIG SUNSHINE By THEODORE PRATT 115,000 words. Theodore Pratt Box 507 Boca Raton, Florida Suggested blurb for: BIG SUNSHINE By THEODORE PRATT No one has ever before written about Florida like this. The author, in fourteen years of specializing in wri~ing …