Theodore Pratt Collection
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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: MERCY SLAND by Stranded on a Florida Key as remote as any tropical island, four shipwrecked souls believe they are alone . . . Until they meet the mysterious stranger who makes the lonely isle his home ... THEODORE PRATT thor of The Tarted, Cocotte, and …
Cracker Conquered
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: CRACKER CONQUERED While on a trip from the east coast to the west eoaat of Florida, I had promised our maid, a Cracker girl by the name of Leetha Paget, we would stop by at a village where her uncle lived, and call on him to tell him that she was well and …
Miss Dilly Program
Type: Text
Year: 1948, 1948
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: SARATOGA SPIHNGS. N~ V. . --- ." ---- - - - - - - · .M•6~,.i -, _,_,,,,,,,_:n1e11,.,_ ~ ,,, . I Week of August 3t;Sept 5, 1948 . - . c , , _ , c ~ ~ ~ , . - . c , . . . . . ~ " ' : • WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST - (Co:ntinued) ERNEST TRUEX ( Mr. E. Horatio)-one …
The Big Bubble
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $4.50 Theodore Pratt THE 1i BUBBLE THE BIG BUBBLE Tms Is THE STORY of Adam and Eve. Their time was the early 1920's, and their Paradise was Florida, where the greatest land bubble in history swelled and shimmered with rosy reflections of fifty-room …
The Revolt of the Mummies
Type: Text
Year: 1923, 1923
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes play program
Full Text: BAYES THEATRE 44th Street, west of Bro,dway O~E WEli}K BlWlNNlNG ;\IONDAY F.VENING, MAY 7, 1923 Little Theatre Tournament Walter Hartw'g ..... . .. . General Manager Grace Marren .. .. Secr etary and Treasurer Ooncluctcd with the Oo-ope1·ation of THE NEW …
Without Consent / Rape
Type: Text
Year: 1961, 1961
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I I I .~ l l Writing manuscript of WITHOUT CONSENT, then titled RAPE. Except for writing in 35 page outline, this was first and only writing of the book. However, I always did my own typing of final manuscript and dzautng this did more writing and …
$17,000,000 For Plainer Talk
Type: Text
Year: 1929, 1929
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in the New York Herald Tribune
Full Text: New Y o-rk ]{eralb mdburltl 10 "My God, Watso,,, Come Here Quick,' I've Spilled Acid on Jl.,f_v Pants!" $Ji,ooo,ooo for Plainer Talk That Is the Annual Cost of Research at the Bell Laboratories, the LarJ!est in the World, Where 2,000 Experts A re …
Big Car
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: , 0. ). BIG CAR His face, reflected He polished the hood until it shone. in it, wasn't thin, but fat and wide, the way it looked in one of those crazy mirrors at the Fun house. He grinned and his teeth appeared tremen::lous, like in pictures or Teddy …
Picnic in California
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: FlONIO IN CALIFORNIA rl1th her lunch ba,e et o ld s dan to a brousbt the wr t.he state picnic moment top at the park in Lon Angeles where held. tr·aight n1ng h r dr pur·chase :r, Lucy Coo the eeat be 1.d She ot out of the ear and stood tor s. She was clad …
Moon Shot
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A short-story. MOON SHOT By THBOOORE PRATT From THE MEN'S DIGEST, Noo 41, 1962 Reprint rights held by author. 3500 words. First North American Serial Rights Only. Theodore Pratt Route l, Box 8Clf Delray Beach, Florida MOON SHOT By TH.&oDORE PRATT To look …
The Oldest Passion Play in the World
Type: Text
Year: 1931, 1931
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Cunarder
Full Text: 12 • The CUNARDER The return from the Garden of Olives 1s portrayed I • Christ is made prisoner 1n moving, realistic manner The Oldest Passion Play in the World Every First Sunday in August at Roquebru ne By Theodore Pratt • Restrained by my job in Nice …
Boat Ride
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: B RI E ihen I got out of th pretty oo s 1, I ap l t l k ad ca 1 igh s~ ool 1i e t1s1pr. n. ,t • Yo" a py h d ·he 1a a th t re la.r th1ng. H idn't loo "? "to 1 d us 1t. pa 0 ha oo d 1 nk tal to n of tl 1 c • ft got lo e l d 1 gt h lped fi h bu 1 e , be n …
Why I Write About Florida
Type: Text
Year: 1958, 1958
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original article manuscript; Article printed in Florida Winter Vacation
Full Text: FLORIDA Wiij1~ER VACATION, 1958-59 . l I ; ·/ '71..e{). I ,'l • ,. Why I Write About Florida by Theodore Pratt "The Miami Heraul," and the Perry chain of Florida newspapers both call Theodore Pratt, the author of the following article, "The literary …
France Will Be French Again
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: • f • < , ' / , \. FRANCE WILL BE FRENCH AGAIN By THEODORE PRATT Ever since the fall of France it has beccme fashionable for people who knew that stimulating country to offer grave explanations of the mysteries of its capitulation. Also recounted are sad …
Miss Dilly Budget and Investment Fact
Type: Text
Year: 1954, 1954
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: -1n D, i 1 1 y" Tentative Production Budget Scenery and Costumes Scenic designer - fee $ 4,000.00 Lighting fee 1,000.00 Building, painting and drapes 45,000oOO Electrics and Sound 5,500.00 Props 42000.00 Costume designer - fee 2,500.00 Costumes - …