Theodore Pratt Collection
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Seminole Attack
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A ehor t-story : Sh.1'-IDWLE ATTACK By THEODORE PRATT Author' note: In 1840, during the Seminole \tJar 1n Florida, a theatrical troupe was attacked by tbe Indians just outside of st . t,ugastine end one man. was killed . That incident, treated …
Florida's Wonderful Hovel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Saturday Evening Post
Full Text: REPORT TO THE EDITORS Florida's Wonderful Hovel By THEODORE PRATT tourists arrive at the Driftwood Inn, midway on the Florida SOME east coast at Vero Beach, take one startled look at the nightmarish, worm-eaten structure, suppress a scream and drive away …
An Insider Tees Off on the Two Miamis
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article from The Miami News
Full Text: AN INSIDER TEES OFF ON THE TWO MIAMIS By THEODORE PRATT The motorist stopped "for gas at a service station in Jacksonville. "How far is it to Florida?" he asked the attendant. "You're in Florida." "No, no - I mean Miami." This little dialogue takes place …
The Royal Poinciana; An Era's Grandest Lady
Type: Text
Year: 1967, 1967
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Printed in Tropic
Full Text: l. By Theodore Pratt The Royal Poinciana Hotel which once stood in Palm Beach was the grandest of all grand hotels of all time. It was also, so far as is known, the largest wooden building ever erected anywhere in the world, as well as being the largest …
The Professor
Type: Text
Year: 1924, 1924
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a playbill and newspaper clipping about the play.
Full Text: CThe Huguenot Players CThe Huguenot Players of New Rochelle of New Rochelle prefjent present "THE PROFESSOR" "THE PROFESSOR" ( A Comedy in One Act) ( A Comedy in One Act) By THEODORE PRATT By THEODORE PRATT Persons of the play as they appear Persons of …
Mal Du Pays
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: 122. ( MAL DU PAYS Toward the end of our long stay in Provence, I began to have interrnittant periods of wanting to return home. My wife, still marvelling at a ponne who did everything from shining our shoes to being satisfied with eight cents' worth of …
A Little Early
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A LITU.E EARLY By THEODORE PRATI' 2400 words . First North American Serial Rights . 'Theodor Pratt Route l I Box 801 Delray B acht 33444 lorida A LITl'LE EARLY By 'mEODORE PRA n • George had heard two f the older boys at school. overgrown fellows ln the …
Mr. Beems Goes to the Wars
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Bv Theo~ e. at • • ~a·' ~ 1 "'d ., L fornia . i_d 1 ttL., Th, r•:r br than th r ct t ne vs a i B;r r 1 i bo d bi·· n him 0~ 1e d th, r· - ri r r r off C the b 0 , sa_o . r. r , r .... tev d __ ni h sh r tr e 'orld . nev r s ore, b t _r hims lf ' at mig …
Heartbreak on Strawhat Trail
Type: Text
Year: 1950, 1950
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in Variety
Full Text: v, r niversury Wednesday, January 4, 1950 Heartbreak on The Strawhat Trail By THEODORE PRATT Anybody want a novelist's eye view of the theatre? This amounts to the brand new question of what's wrong with the old girl as seen by a novelist turned …
Big Blow for Federal Theatre
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
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The Barefoot Mailman
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: Photograph by Hank Cohen THEODORE PRATT, who lives at Delray Beach, Florida, says that he has written more about that state than anyone in his right mind would set out to do. Of his thirty published books, thirteen are about Florida- in addition to three …
Mr. Petry, an Ostrich, a Hurricane
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: From Th New York r nd Peril In Provence. - MR . PETRY, AN OSTRICH, A HURRICANE -Before we went to Florida for the first tim we had heard about Crackers, or natives of the state, who were given that nm because their ancestors cracked whips at their oxen. …
Florida Freeze
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
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Houseparty Hotel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ) ,I ' HOUSEPARTY HOTEL An Original Story Suggest for a Musical, Though It Can Also Be Used As A Straight Comedy Without Musical Treatment By THEODORE PRATT Attached see article by Theodore Pratt of same title about the Driftwood Hotel at Vero Beach, …
Inside Stuff
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ST A Gaetronom1cal anta y ln 1 TH 0 " • \ RAff I 1 IDc. 'l'UF by Frank a1 ptlbl1ehe e lov ms. no . h 1 . 1 u. he d e 0 ,n o .... l (To 01-' Don:s:•t y.c tG G -ST ~I ric Juloe) · l c"n tell trom auch ee onbon ( on.::. n ta ea O · 1ery' o. tou bin..; er h …