Theodore Pratt Collection
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Picnic in California
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: An Ottginal 'fel.e pl,&f I n !~iu~ Aot, Por aa. Hour Jregra• t 11 T,mQJilQBI IBAfT Note: This eor1pt oan be produced either live or made on film . . If .d one li've some of the simple modern oostl1llte changes for o:nly a few people are tight for time, …
Big Blow Program
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: IElfG 13l0ff BY Th,e odore Pratt STI\G ED BY I\NTON BUNDSMANN MUSIC BY HANS BRUNO MEYER I' SETTINGS BY SAMUEL LEVE ~ , ~ LIGHTING .. ,. '. " BY C0$TUME$ BY MARY MERRILL FEDER . ' 411 , . .. I . ' ,• , PRODUCED BY Morris …
Organizing the Writer's Material
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original article manuscript and article printed in Writer's Digest more
Full Text: PUBLISHER IN "THE WRITER ' S DIGEST , ' 19610 PLEASE RETURN TO AUTHOR . OR.G\NIZ:Uto nm WRI ii:.:a. s . TERL.a.L Theodot'El P: tt" wh liv s !.n t_:ita~ ,~ l:ltC!J:a spapP~A -1(.,.u_, ~DU ✓ n ref t •,tai1man t t'li -t~ -~ul" , ~ "Th ir laureate of Fl t d:t …
The Touch
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I 1 Theodore Pre. tt 222 North K Street ~ke Worth, Florida. TRE TOUCH B.v Theodore Pratt Nw. It was coming now. Webby telt sure of it. All the usual signs had appeared, beginning with the letter trom Charlie, after all these years, to the present …
How to Build a Fire
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original story tor a Robert Benohley shorts \. HO ~ TO BUILD A FIRE By THroOORE PRATT Benchley 1a se n leavin son of ten. h1a house With sonny, his small They are dressed tor camping in the woods, sonny 1n a neat, simple Boy Scout's outfit and Benchlo~ …
Prison Train
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: P R I S ON TRAIN By 1rHEODORE PRATT The long, stream.lined, stainless steel train, starrli ng splendid and shining in the -Chicago railroad station, had only one th:llm.g the matter with it. Tacked on its end, like an incongruous afterthought, there was a …
Why Authors Hate Publishers
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: WHY AUTHORS HATE PUBLISHERS By THEODORE PRATT Excerpt from the author's newly-completed Thirty-fx h book, "Anybody Want To Be An Author?" which tells the frank story of his life as a writer. 6000 words. First North American SErial Rights Only. Theodore …
I Found My Mother
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a letter to an editor.
Full Text: Third person story to be re-worked under title: I FOUND MY MOTHER ' ,1 First North American Serial Rights in English Only. 4000 words. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach,Flor1da GOING HOME By Theodore Pratt In a few minutes, when the taxi gets …
Favor Returned
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: FAVO 1• tan the ba ket or or you ton ge RETU 'D 1c •• ny s id polit ly, e c rr1ed into our kitchen, 0 th xt y n r • hi toring on y co or . g couple tbat th r • dozen extry . ' xp cte re ·1 y ounted o 1 Ony ' fifteen lles t ncl t e promise ha oz . rr v 1 a …
God Knows
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. GOD KNOWS The Reverend Gideon Oder, a Cracker evangelist, was a f'airly close neighbor of mine in Florida. I had heard him preach in his ramshackle church, whic1t-e called "The Sanct1£1ed and Pentecostal …
Mr. Webster Goes to a Bullfight
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: MR. WEBSTER GOES TO A BULLFIGHT By THEODO:RE PRATT 2100 words . Fir t Nirth American Serial Rights Only . Theodore Pratt 717- B Ninth Street Santa Monica California MR. WEBSTER GOES TO A BULLFIGHT By THEODORE PRATT Mr . Webster stared at the great arena …
Please Help the Blind
Type: Text
Year: 1941, 1941
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Villager
Full Text: Please Delp The Blind PRIZE CHARACTER SKETCH by Theodore Pratt M y BLIND COUSIN, Elizabeth, was coming on from Boston for a short visit, and I was delegated to meet her at the bus station and take her around the town. I remem, bered Elizabeth as a child, …
Handsome
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A re-working, and in part an adaptation and treatment of the novel, using most of the printed book, by the author, to make the story acceptable to the Motion Picture Broduction Code, of: HANDSOME By THEODORE PRATT Route 1, Box 81f Delray Beach, Florida …
Mr. Limpet
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: 1.75 .. MR. LIMPET THEODORE PRATT The rich ingredients of this new novel by Theodore Pratt are a calm acceptance of the impossible, a delicious sense of fun, and some shrewd and devastating comment on men and their ways. Not since Lady into Fox has there …
Mercy Island
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: ,-:-v:"\--♦"~~'7--1":"'v-:"'~--♦"$ 2 . 50 net /11 BR UPTLY the tarpon turned and ~7/ headed for the mangroves along the shore of the key. Lowe, the Conch captain, swung the boat broadside to work against the pull of the fish; but the line went singing out …