The First and Only Weekly Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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The First and Only Weekly Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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September 1 - ERB's birthday - is the official release date for most of the ERB, Inc. editions of ERB's novels 1888: Ed enters the Harvard School on 21st Street & Indiana Ave. Ed rides to school by pony, horsecar & cable-car 1891: Ed reluctantly returns to the East and enrolls in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. |
Sept 23: Burroughs family moves to LA & winter at 355 South Hoover Street 
1917: Sept 8 Starts The Lost U-Boat (The Land That Time Forgot) 1923: In preparation for a career in theatre, Joan enrolls in LA's Cumnock School of Theatre |
1920: Tarzanamajor renovations: central heating, 3-car garage, servants rooms, darkroom, workshop, study & home school room. Ballroom/ movie theatre/ playroom, projection booth, pool, golf course, lion & monkey cages, riding trails, hen house, hog pen, dairy barn & horse stalls
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1926: Thanks to Ed's influence, James Pierce takes a screen test and is hired for the first full-length Tarzan feature and the last of the Tarzan silent movies 1927: Who Cares? article by Normal Bean and others by ERB appear in Tarzana Bulletin. ERB pleads for protection of wildlife. |
1939: The new Tarzan Clans circular is headed with "Johnny Weissmuller, Chief of Chiefs - C.R. Rothmund, Chief Scribe - & Edgar Rice Burroughs, Founder 1940s: Writes a Tarzan parody play called Tarzan's Good Deed Today  |
1875: Edgar Rice Burroughs is born to George Tyler & Mary Evaline (Zieger) in Chicago The middle name is of his colonial ancestor in Mass., Deacon Edmund Rice (1594-1663) 1896: On his 21st birthday at Duncan Ariz, Ed receives a picture from Emma who is vacationing in Coldwater, Mich 1921: English Tarzan stageplay starts short US run at NY's Broadhurst Theatre |
1928: Sept: Hulbert enrolls as a senior at Van Nuys High School 1937: ERB works on strip continuity all month 1947: Ed takes over supervision of newspaper strips - Hogarth replaces Maxon - Thompson takes continuity  |
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1940: Interviewed on Radio Station KGMB
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1929: Sept: Ed & boys take auto- camping trip to Ensenada
area in Lower California. Also north to Grant's Pass, Ore in 2 Pullman
Aerocoaches
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1925: Red Hawk starts in Argosy
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1915:Starts Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 
1940: Completes a 20,000-word John Carter story |
1922: Reveals plans to transform Tarzana into a town with its own post office 1940: Hodon and O-AA (SP) the first of a new David Innes series of 4 is written 1941: Hulbert arrives to join father. Ed returns to hospital for short stays |
1922: GL in special 40th Ann. issue of Argosy All-Story. ERB also contributes a 1,200-word introduction tracing the Tarzan series & characters from the first story 1942 ( 7) Hulbert is posted to AF bases in the So Pacific as documentary & combat photographer. Under intense fire at Guadalcanal. |
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1929: Sept 9: Receives copy 1 of Tarzan and the Lost Empire. Official release a week later. Dedication is to: To Jean Hulbert - daughter of Murray Hulbert, a NY attorney & judge - distant cousin on his mother's side 1942:Resigns over limited role of BMTC but returns as liaison officer |
1932: Sept 10: The radio premier (episode number one on record) of the Tarzan radio show is presented at the Fox Pantages Theater in Hollywood with the entire cast present. ERB, Jim & Joan make brief speeches. One of the first radio series to be transcribed for world-wide markets  |
1927: McClurg report US & UK sales to be 6,350,000 copies
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1928: Starts TP at Sea View Terrace, Santa Monica 1933: Ed is elected mayor of Malibu Beach 1945: Plans to return to US are upset by a series of angina attacks & he is confined to bed for over a month. |
1942: Ed socializes with many officers of the Signal Corps,
Intelligence, Anti-Aircraft Brigade, etc. Ed enters into a battle of wits
with the Signal Corps. Each tries to baffle the other with coded messages
- "undecipherable ciphers."
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1927: WC in McClurg 1937: Back to the Stone Age (Seven Worlds to Conquer in Argosy) is published by ERB 1940: Deputy Sheriff of Commanche County published by ERB, Inc - JCB illos - War paper shortage 1944: Jack removes Mary Evaline's ashes from the Pierce Brother Crematorium where they have been stored for over 20 years. |
1911: Ed's Chicago Cubs baseball poem O, Yes; It's Getting Thick - appears in the Tribune |
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Autobiography fulfilling Metropolitan's request for publicity material to promote release of Tarzan and the Lost Empire 1931: Rex Maxon's last Sunday Tarzan page is published |
1939: Whitman publishes The Son of Tarzan as a Big Little Book |
1919: Semi-autobio graphical The Efficiency Expert is written and is sold to All-Story on Nov 17 1928: Neebe turns Tarzan strips over to an established syndicate |
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1914: Submits a patriotic article to the Army-Navy Journal: What Is the Matter with the United States Army  |
article appeared in the Edgewater Breeze, Santa Monica, CA 1939: Tarzan the Magnificent is published by ERB, Inc. Dedication is: "To Cyril Ralph Rothmund" - ERB's secretary & later general manager of ERB, Inc 1946: Views Lesser's RKO film Tarzan & the Leopard Woman w/JW |
1923: 27th: Tarzana development advertises “great jungle barbecue” to be served by Elmo Lincoln. Elmo irked by inaccurate advertising backs out & threatens to sue 1940: dictaphone arrives at office & Ed writes at a feverish pace. Coins the word "scientifiction" - Develops strong feelings of inferiority as a writer |
1919: WM is published by McClurg 1922: Ed receives samples of first authorized Tarzan merchandise from Davis & Voetsch, NY toy manufacturers. Year's royalty is only $120 1940: Starts Black Pirates of Barsoom pt 2 of the new Mars series |
1918: GM is published by McClurg 1918: An article about ERB: "Prominent, Popular Oak Park Man Honored" appears in The Oak Parker - Vol. 34, No. 25, Oak Park, Illinois 1936: JCB takes over as illustrator of ERB novels |
1928: Sept. 27: ERB authorizes the adaptation of 10 Tarzan novels to strip form - later he expresses satisfaction with the artwork of Harold Foster. The first 6 strips have already appeared in London Tid-Bits 1938: Ed & Flo leave Honolulu for Vancouver on Empress of Japan |
1924: AM in McClurg 1933: PV serial begins in London's Passing Show Magazine 1940: Mrs. Jane Morse is hired as a typist 1942: Hosts one of many radio shows for BMTC - featuring many military friends as guests |
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