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The Royal Poinciana; An Era's Grandest Lady

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: " :.: ,~10 nue u, ........,, ' AV»I I ·' «.· .· •···· .o:t or~ w.tDdft.t• · · : • ..... '4 , • •., :11e,- ', - . •. ,. _, AVWI -I.Mm (a .loltlng .ht\f.•bla4. ,w , ot \bi wludl1r NIS, looking - - ~ 1.') 11a, •• ns», '! af·, ,.. • t •'• ... .«U' ' :' 1:/l . …

The Barefoot Mailman

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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

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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

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: at u our , oc lori a:, ol e 1 l i 1 l t n F C C or l1 ' r tt l 1. 1 t t , , J t ofl 0 t t to 0 0 5 o 1. , ti- ch ., r • ~ C co l ter l 1 t i r. r t to l t t lo rth t o of J. t t I or t ut 1 trici ty, 8 z r e y, h .. . ort rJ. un a·e C ..., 0 UC ~ n· t th …

Houseparty Hotel

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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

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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 …

A New York Childhood

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 81 Horatio Street I New. Yo_rk, N. Y. I If ✓ F A NE ~ me I visualized my career selling nevvspapers, acquiring a fortune and returning in triumph ·to Minnehaha. We arrived a.t the Pennsylvania Stat'ion in Jersey City, for at that time train …

Beyond the Kiss

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Type: Text
Year: 1934, 1934
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: sh r 0 f ro h· 0 tl8 1 C B n 1 • ., r. :lOU. t V of n. n.,. ' or a r1o • • ,,,.,. -· • t & t i ll • 0 I r 'l 1' 1.. t C of . t r C • ,:3 1 • dO, -~ut 11 5 t:f r ht. O i C tb1tlb • lt is t· b- n lv, l v h 8 • re.·· hn. :r wnen el e ae 70-1 C 0 sly hen 1e 8 …

Rape

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ) l> M, ·. . ., ,,. / ~dea~'·and indication of the story of a novel: RAPE By THEODORE PRATT 8"' s,·'-- J,d~il../ This will be a serious study of a rape ca~se that will go farther than previcus stories in probing the causes, conditions, \.~ ..,,;"" . and …

Mercy Island

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 - …

Selling the Older Book

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Type: Text
Year: 1969, 1969
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: SELLING TlE OLDER BOOK By TILODORE P 2700 words TT Theodore Pratt Route l,Box 801 Delray each, Florida 3444 Theodore Pratt is the author of 35 books, 14 of the about Florida where the newspapers .call him "The literary laureate of Florida." His latest …

The Logical Confusion of England's Railways

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Type: Text
Year: 1963, 1963
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article clipped from The New York Times
Full Text: THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 19j THE LOGICAL CONFUSION OF ENGLAND'S RAILWAYS The first leg of the journey was in a jolly toy train consisting of three passenger cars, two miniature "goods" (freight) cars and a small coal-burning locomotive. I …

Birthright in Andalusia

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: BIRTHRIGHT IN ANDALUSIA This Spanish priest was a man. His full name was El Senor Vicario Don Miguel Torres y Calafe l l, but on the ship going over Kenton got to know him as the Vicario. priest in Spanish. That means l"'enton didn't have any religi on, …

Commie

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I COMMIE By THEODORE PRATT It would be the first time they had seen each other since Allen was called by the Congressional committee to testify in Washington. George had read about it in the papers. Allen had been askea if he was a Communist or had ever …

The Big Bubble

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Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: She Could Make A . Man-Or Break Him! '- (' r7r. _0 ~ :if __Ykc»o/ ......., ,~ … Florida Atlantic University Digital Library …

The Money

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Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: THE MONEY When five youngsters find a fortune and limit themselves to two dollars each a week pocket-money it seems as though they might avoid the taint of greed. Their requirements are modest enough : Joey, aged eight, wants a camel; Henny, ten, a box of …

Master of Foxhounds

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: lllftE OF FOXHOUNDS :e.,, Theodore Pratt .r I ·/ ·1 didn't know ar.~ing about fox-hunting and I ~as pretty impressed when \_ I ran across this fellow I used to know in school and he toM me all about it. Be was• Roger Mac Cloud said, a Jluter ot …

Predicament at Thirty

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: i j J I' I J, PR EDI CAlIErfT Nl1 1.PHIBTY In a, recent issue of _:l1__ he Saturday },vening Post" Hr. Jose!)h Hergesc eimer _ _,__ ,~..1 turned his back on Eu.rope, finding nothing but emptiness and disappointment on that continent. Vastly, he decided, …

Comic Bullfight

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: American address: Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. By Theodore Pratt Valencia, Spain. On the train coming to this city so romantic in song and history and so much like Utica, N. Y. in present reality, we overheard several references to …

Dark Journey

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: DARK JOURNEY l3y Theodore Pratt A voice sounds from inside the clothes closet. It comes out through a crack left by the door and flings itself at the silent, waiting party. The message rises high and hopefully and then, ridiculously, it breaks because the …

Gentleman in Armor

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 277 West ·12th Street Hew York, N. Y. GENTLJCMAlf IN·· ARMOR As I shuttled over from Grand Central to _Tines Square I was in one of those reflective moods about the grandeur of our civilization everyone who is not a confirmed sceptlo falls …

Skyline Motor Inn

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Type: Text
Year: 1960, 1960
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: h odor • att R ute l, B x 818 D lray B ach Florida 1 1 J•iji wife flt1d I are not. 1n t1:1-e class of many p:r•esen+ • day a,,t. travell.rs w -0 hsv~ n~wer s~•yed at ah tel 1n their lives, kriow i ng only mo le . "'e1ng so eood1t1 ned. we felt eure- we …

The Barefoot Mailman- An Historical Spectacle

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: 11 TI1E BAIIBFOOT HAILI.iAH An I-IIS~ro:nICAL SPECTACLE ADl'~P ~I.1:CD FHOH THE NOVEL OF TirBODOiill PRATT PROLOGUE HAR: LIGHTS "Jp .., ... EIGHT TRU.UlPETERS ::11-ECLOSED STANDING VG 'rJI TdlJkFETS ?;\NFAfu.! wit:JIES AND GENTLEtrnN THE SUN DA NCE …

The White God

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Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: R-846 soc HoNoR, fREEdoM, pAssioN PYRAMID BOO~S R - 846 soc Alone. he searched tor Coronado's goldand tound a paradise 011ust and power NAkEd ANd UNASltAMEd •• For two thousand years the great city had stood, its fantastic tower unchanged by time, …

Roulette

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: As he finished dressing, adjusting his white tie exactly, Steve Dutton heard his father's voice from the next room, through the open doorway. 11 Ready, Steve?" "Ready, sir," he answered. rheir voices soundef hollowly in the great mansion. ~hexgot0.0, 1 …

Turkey Shoot

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: URKhY A 1 ze ble orow SHOOT had gathered in the. comer of' the f1ald., on one aide of the Florida Cracker village, wher was being hel . Th. shooting line of the r ns, a out which th oro d press d closely, 1/ n'rough woo en aa ~ rred by a wire strung on 1 …

One Thing To Do

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A short- story: ONE THING TO DO By THEODORE PRATT Second serjal rightA. First published, 1935, in ESQUIRE ; reworked in novel , BI G BLOW , 1936 , end play of same na.me , 1938 . Novel isaued in 1950 in paperback by Avon . Shortstory to be lnc111ed in new …

Tropical Disturbance

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Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: FAWCETT WORLD LIBRARY -I :a .,, -~ -en :a ,..mz 0 r- ~ -I C and the Her name was Jane, but she was no lady-she was a cataclysm of rising tides, cruel blasting winds, and interminable driving rains. And she rocked Coquina Beach in a nightmare of limitless …

A Circuit Summer Stock Company in Maine

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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 Sun
Full Text: ;~ A CIRCUIT SUMMERBy STOCK COMPANY IN MAINE THEODORE PRATT O l LD-TIME actors are fond of rP-· th LI calling e old days of troui::ing. pointing out lhat the real - trouper no longer exists and th1" • 't present generation of actors 1sn demand-and …

Red and Yellow--Kill a Fellow

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Type: Text
Year: 1955, 1955
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A short-story: RED AND YELLOW -KILL A FELLOW By THEODORE PRATT 4700 wofds. First North American Serial Rights Only. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida A abort story -- RED AND YELLOW -- r KILL A FELLOW By THEODORE PRATT The morning the …

Glamor Authors Have No Copyright On The New Good Writing in America

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Type: Text
Year: 1961, 1961
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I F~r Anniversary issue o . 3. Theodore Pratt Route 1,Bcx 818 D lray Beech, Florida of VARI ' TY . / By hecdcr Pratt Harv y Swados, author and prof seer at San Frnaciscc State College, mads an int resting pd~nt in a r cent "Saturday Rev1awtt article in r …

Notes on the Barefoot Mailman

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Type: Text
Year: 1966, 1966
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article from the Florida Historical Quarterly
Full Text: NOTES ON THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN* by THEODORE PRATT 1 NOTES ON THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN* by THEODORE PRATT T HE THREE QUESTIONS most asked of me about the barefoot mailman are these: vVas he real or did you just make him up? Why did he walk barefoot? How much …

Red Flash!

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Idea for an article: RED FLASH! By THEODORE PRATT Alternate titlew: SKY WATCH RAY 30 A color spread is suggested for illustration, with the a t1thor, one of the spotters of the Observation Post described, on hand to assist. Address: Miss Virginia Rice 175 …

Tenth Reunion

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: TENrH By 1400 words. First North American Serial Rights Only REUNION THEODORE PRATI Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida TENTH By REUNION THEODORE PRATI' The ride through the night with the enthusiastic fraternity brother who can spare …

The Perilous Voyage

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Type: Text
Year: 1963, 1963
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE PERILOUS VOYAGE By THEODORE PRATT 3.500 words . First North American Serial Rights Only . THE PERILOUS VOYAGE By •xHEODORE PRNf'l' Thy ay that memox-y dos not begin until much later than I can remember from the very b ginning of my existence . mine …

The Incredible History of an Author's Relations with Many Book Publishers

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: 'XHE IllCREDIBLE HISTORY OF AN AUTHOtl 1 S REL/1TIONS WITH MANY BOOK PUBLISHERS 'l~e author of th1 s article is a well-known novelist, He doos not sign his nn.me for obvious rensons which he further ex~l~ins 1n his test. I doubt 11' enyc1le • epBr't fron1 …

Grand Motel

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Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: An original screen story idea: GRAND MOTEL By THEODORE PRATT An original screen story idea: GRAND MOTEL By THEODORE PRATT 1 ... c. t 1 I L ..... propitl to ot -- ot _.,. ·x HI• .. ur -- 1• :'; i "'· rt • ll-11 ,.._ JOYC.U ~n er. • ·l- •- b • 1%' ,. 85 tin …

Goodbye, Europe

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Type: Text
Year: 1965, 1965
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: GOODBYE, EUROPE By THEODORE PRATT 2100 words. First N6rth hAmerican Serial Rights Only. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 GOODBYE, EUROPE By THEODORE PRATT Around a million and a half Americans went to Europe in the 1966 summer, …

Regional Writing

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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 Writers' Markets & Methods. (Note printing error: Pratt was born in 1901 not 1911) more
Full Text: Regional Writing Follows the rules of writing in general An l11tn·view ll' itli THEODORE PRATT lly CAllOI. VERONICA IIIRD has paid off for R Theodorewriting Pratt in more ways EGIO NAL than one. He used the State of Florida as his literary sprin gboard, …

Quick Bucks

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Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: • QUICK BUCKS , Sur·e I •11 talk tc you., Mister, but what I talk a.b out depends on w ,at you want to know. This place is too close to t~-e biJJd factory down the road :for me not to be in on a lot of stuff abo 1t the planes they make there. supposed to …

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