Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the famous fictional character of Tarzan and one of the most popular authors of the day, will arrive in Honolulu Thursday aboard the Lurline with Mrs. Burroughs, on a honeymoon visit. 

Length of their visit has not been announced.  They will be greeted off port by representatives of the Hawaii Tourist bureau and presented with leis in aloha.

The son of Maj. George T. Burroughs began his career in the U. S. army, serving as assistant commandant of the Michigan Military academy from 1895-96.

Later he became variously a gold miner in Oregon, storekeeper and cowboy in Idaho and policeman in Salt Lake City. During the later stages of the World war he was a major in the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, of the Illinois reserve militia. 

He began his writing career in 1914 with Tarzan of the Apes, and since then his amazing imagination has led his readers through a maze of fascinating lands.

His books have been transformed to the screen, radio and lately to newspaper comic strips.  It is a regular feature of The Star-Bulletin.

Tarzan, whose fictional adventures throughout the world and others has thrilled millions, was born in Chicago on the back of a letterhead and now has grown so much that he has a Hawaiian protege. 

He flies through the trees, you know, swims rivers and gallops through adventures of convincing reality and unequaled excitement.

But today he climbed up topside on the Lurline, hung from a rail and greeted his literary father.

The "father" is Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of teh famous character, who arrived aboard the Lurline today on a honeymoon trip with Mrs. Burroughs, the former Florence Gilbert of the screen. 

And the "Tarzan" who greeted him, was a husky, dark skinned chap, matured in Honolulu, who swims with the skill of a fish. 

Mr. Burroughs, as husky as the character he has created, received Tarzan's lei with appreciation and recalled the time 21 years ago when the famous jungle character was just another imaginative creature. 

Wrote While Soldiering

The author had spent much of his previous life soldiering before he turned to fiction. "My first Tarzan story," he said today, "was just a vagrant idea." It was, he explained, a new type of story and not more unusual than the development of a new type of stove.

He wrote it on the back of discarded letter paper, sent it away with little hope and was "completely surprised" when it sold immediately. 

Since then the fictional character has grown into reality for people throughout the world who follow his adventures by book, radio, comic strip and motion pictures. 

Tarzan swings from the trees in Africa, battles strange creatures and finds himself in many dazzling new worlds. 

Mr. Burroughs himself has never swung from a tree, nor for that matter has he been in Africa. 

Uses His Imagination

"Neither," he says, "have I been on Mars or Venus, but I write about them."

The growth of Tarzan and his creator form the most remarkable success story of modern fiction. Now on a working scheduleof two books annually, Mr. Burroughs has written about 40 volumes and more than 60 other stories which hav not appeared in book form.

An athlete and an ardent horseman, the author, a former cavalry officer, maintains a model ranch, Tarzana of Reseda, California, and a beach home at Malibu, famous motion picture colony, not far away. 

He now produces his own pictures, and a company recently finished a new film, The Adventures of Tarzan, going to Guatemala for location. 

The new picture will feature another Tarzan, Herman Brix, huge olympic shot putter, successor to Clarence (Buster) Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller.

Sons Turn to Art

Mr. Burroughs has many  hobbies, but outstanding among them are his two sons, Hulbert and John, both of whom have turned to art, following their graduation from Pomona college. Hulbert is now studying photography, while John has shown considerable promise as a painter and sketcher. 

During their stay here, the arrivals will remain at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, returning to the mainlandon the Lurline April 27.
The Star-Bulletin is among the newspapers served by the Tarzan comic strip.

Mrs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, wife of the prolific creator of Tarzan, is here again, with son Lee and daughter Caryl Lee and said that Mr. Burroughs is planning to follow them soon, probably on the Monterey next week. They're staying for the summer, taking a house at Kailua, and Mr. Burroughs will knock off another thriller while basking in the Hawaiian sun. The Burroughs live in Tarzana, Cal., which should be proof of the author's fame when he has a postoffice to his name. Such is success, after a hectic career as cavalry man, salesman, goldminer, storekeeper, cowpuncher, policeman, infantry major and finally book-writer.

Last week Mrs. Edgar Rice Burroughs and two children arrived in Honolulu for the summer, and Mr. Burroughs arrived yesterday, stating that while here he'll continue writing.

"Another book?" he was asked.

"Another!" he retorted, "I'll write a series of books in Hawaii -- though not about Hawaii."

The creator of Tarzan comes from Tarzana, Cal., his extensive estate, and the family has taken a house at Kalama.

Mr. Burroughs will make a special broadcast over KGU tonight at 6:30 o'clock introducing a new series of transcribed Tarzan dramatizations, the first of which will be heard over KGU tomorrow evening.

"Tarzan is on the radio now," he said. Asked if his Mars stories had been dramatized for radio, he said they would be soon, adding that they would be guaranteed not to scare the listening public into believing Mars was attacking the Earth, as Orson Welles once unintentionally convinced thousands of listeners.

Mr. Burroughs was last here two years ago. He said yesterday his 52 books (not counting scenarios, comic strips, short stories, etc.) have sold 25,000,000 copies and have been translated into 57 languages in the last 20 years.

TARZAN AND HIS MATE 
(Photo Caption) Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the fictional character, Tarzan arrived on the Lurline today for a vacation in Hawaii. He is accompanied by Mrs. Burroughs, shown with him. They spent their honeymoon in Hawaii in 1935. Story on this page.

CREATOR REGRETS, BUT TARZAN'S GOT A WIFE
Honolulu Star-Bulletin ~ August 24, 1938

The love life of Tarzan is a problem to Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Mr. Burroughs, creator of the fictional ape-man, arrived on the Lurline today with Mrs. Burroughs. 

They will continue their honeymoon which began at Waikiki in May, 1935. 

Speaking of honeymoons put Mr. Burroughs in a good frame of mind to discuss Tarzan's domestic relations, which the author frankly admits have to be delicately depicted. 

Possibly few readers who follow the daily Tarzan strip on the comic page of The Star-Bulletin know the otherwise unconquerable hero is married. 

"Yes," said Mr. Burroughs with obvious regret, "it's sad but true, I married Tarzan off in my second book. 

"I know now that the wedding was a mistake. Not that Jane, Tarzan's wife, isn't all he could want in a woman but Tarzan just isn't the marrying kind. He's not domestic. 

"But that was almost a quarter of a century ago and I didn't know then that I would still have use for an unmarried Tarzan 25 years later."

Every now and then, Mr. Burroughs said, he finds occasion to bring Jane into the pictures. "But most of the time," he said, motioning with his hand as if pushing somethin behind him, we have to keep her out of it."

Mr. Burroughs attributes Tarzan's perennial popularity to a suppressed desire which beats in the breast of every man to be himself a Tarzan and battle lions and bellow like an ape.

He recently refused an offer of $10,000 for the manuscript of the first story, Tarzan of the Apes, written in longhand on the back of letterhead stationery in 1914. 

Twenty thousand words a week!

That's the job Edgar Rice Burroughs, veteran serial writer and creator of Tarzan has been assigned by his publishers until he leaves Hawaii.

Exploding the theory that Hawaii's climate undermines ambition. Mr. Burroughs has already finished three of these 20,000 word novelettes during this month and started his fourth on September 16. 

Unable to write at his home where the constant dialogue and jabber on the radio distracts his mind, Mr. Burroughs has taken an office on Kapiolani Blvd. complete with the racket of electric drills, passing traffic and a gang of workmen mending the street directly outside his window.

"That sort of thing doesn't bother me a bit," smiled the amiable author. 

His writing schedule is simple. 

To work at 9 a.m. in slacks and beach slippers. 

Answer correspondence until 11, work on stories until 4. 

Following the two finger method, he types out 330 words in 20 minutes. 

Sometimes he things of his story at night, when he is in bed. Often he sits down to the typewriter with nary a plot on his mind. 

He just starts writing, and the story unfolds.

Tarzan he has come to think of almost as a person. His fantastic people from Mars, Venus and the Inner World, are purely imaginative creations.

Mr. Burroughs uses his own books for references, checking back on past situations and places. His notebooks are full of characters' names and strange animals.

"I can't use Hawaii as a setting for my books chiefly because I need a menace in my plots and I have never found one in these sunny islands," Mr. Burroughs said. "I may write a different type story later, about them."

Mr. Burroughs has taken a house at 2623 Halelena St., with Mrs. Burroughs and their children, Lee and Caryl Lee.

Their home is in Tarzana, Cal., named after the famous Burroughs character. 

Mr. Burroughs has been writing for 25 years.

Hirsfeld said Mr. Burroughs at present is in Honolulu working on motion picture scripts and stories. 

Miss Gilbert retired from the screen when she married Mr. Burroughs, creator of Tarzan

Mr. Burroughs could not be reached for a statement today.

"It was news to me," the author told reporters at his studio, where he is writing another Tarzan series.

Mrs. Burroughs announced her divorce plans through her attorney, Ellis Hirsfield, in Hollywood.