ERBzine 0270: ERB November Perpetual Calendar

The First and Only Weekly Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Volume 0270

**EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS MILLENNIUM CALENDAR ©**
***Compiled by Bill Hillman*** **NOVEMBER**
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1898: Business is bad & Ed is considering selling the stationery store. Idaho is very much a part of the "wild west" and is not ready for music, fancy magazines & photography 1935: Still suffering from bladder obstruction trouble, Ed enters the Good Samaritan Hospital under the name John B. Downs. A long period of convalescence follows.	1916: Honoured with membership card #1 in the Tribe of Tarzan - a club formed by a fan in Virginia 1930: TEC by Metropolitan 1933: Flo Dearholt seeks Ed's help in booking passage to join Ashton in Guatemala	1930: Burroughs family return to their original Tarzana home (El Caballero Club House) 1930: Ed, suffering severe pain from a bladder obstruction, has a series of operations. Epididymitis, involves an inflammation related to the testicles. 2 operations at Hollywood Hospital - Nov & Jan: $2,551.45	1937: Nov: Tarzan and the Elephant Men is serialized in Blue Book. The 41,000-word story is the sequel to Argosy's Tarzan and the Magic Men. Both are combined in the 1939 book Tarzan the Magnificent 1940: ERB runs into astronomical problems in his creation of the new "Canapa" solar system in Poloda series. Starts correspondence with Professor J. S. Donaghho of Honolulu	1914: Barney Custer of Beatrice (MK sequel) is sent to Davis 1917: Starts *Little Door* (unpublished) 1942: Sends thank-you letter to George Carlin who has sent UP correspondent's credentials 1948: Ed, a staunch Rep.votes for Dewey - as does his entire family, other than Joan & Jim	1912: Submits TA to The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Reilly & Britton, and Dodd, Mead & Co. (All decline)	1911: Metcalf offers $400 for the serial rights of the finished manuscript to be published as *In the Moons of Mars* 1921: Davis writes that he is returning to Munsey's 1945: Ed is house hunting. Houses are scarce & high priced
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1935: Ed's political speech for Tarzan appears as a large ad with Maxon illustrations under the heading Down with Lion Politicians 1944: Emma dies of a stroke after a losing battle with depression & alcoholism. Ed views her death as an escape from an agonized life.	1933: Starts Swords of Mars 1935: Starts Gang Murder 1940: 6-10: Writes Tiger Girl pt 3 of the new Pellucidar series	1911: Starts OT 1914: Ed's biography appears in the Press Club's publication The Scoop. Ed is admitted to the Press Club 1927: Suggests the cartoon compilation of Tarzan strips be named Tarzan Book No. 1, & others titled consecutively		1939: The first French edition of *Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar* is published by Hachette	1946:11: After many requests, Ed refuses to buy a horse for Caryl Lee	1933: LiM starts as a 9-part serial in Liberty ($10,000 - first time Ed pays commission of $1,500 to an agent). British mag Tid-Bits purchases it for 200 pounds 1934: Flo drives back to Vegas with Ed while Ashton tends the kids
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1934: Walter Winchell reports ERB is staying at the Apache Hotel in preparation to end 34 years of marriage. His next bride will be Florence Dearholt of Queens Road, Hollywood.	1934: ERB assigns all rights to Romance Films to George Stout, including the boy scout film serial, Young Eagles 1936: Submits an idea for a dice-board game to Whitman. They reject the idea and refer him to Parker Brothers 1943: ERB completes an article reporting on a year of martial law in the Islands	1947: Ed turns down an invitation to visit Sol Lesser in Palm Springs, citing health reasons.	1915: NY Evening World starts *Man-Eater* serial in six parts ($350) 1925: Nov 16: *Weird Adventure on Mars* (*Mastermind of Mars*) completed but is rejected by Argosy, Popular Magazine & Elks Magazine	1918: Peace and the Militia is published 1921: Starts The Penningtons (GH) Accepted by Munsey's but rejected by McClurg. Titles considered: Shannon, Fetters of Snow, The Snow Slave, The Demon of the Snow, Rancho del Ganado, The Little Black Box - & Davis' suggestion, Needlewoman 1944: Nov 17: Ed & Hulbert board a plane for the States.	1911: Receives $400 cheque from All-Story for *Under the Moons of Mars* 1936: Nov. 16: Writes Argosy to complain about the title change of TaM (renamed *Tarzan and the Magic Men*) & major revisions in style & content 1940: In a letter to Irene Ettrick, a London fan, Ed expresses his concern over Japan's growing strength, on & off the islands. He believes that there will be war with Japan in weeks	1893: Played left halfback in a football game in which his Michigan Military Academy team defeated Ypsilanti 36-22. (Friend Bert Weston was right tackle) 1916: *Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar* starts in 6 parts in All-Story 1932: LV submitted to Argosy & is accepted after revisions 1940: 18-22: Writes *Invisible Men of Mars,"* pt 4 of new Mars series
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1946: Nov 20: Michael Mills comes to discuss the "reprinting of 27 Burroughs books to be priced at $1 or $1.25."	1925: *Wampas* is a poem written for Western Assoc. Motion Picture Advertisers group attending a Breakfast Club meeting. Other poems were written around this time 1931: TI 1st published under the ERB Inc. imprint -Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tenn. do all printing & binding until 1948. DJ & FP by nephew Studley	1931: Starts *Tarzan and the City of Gold. Working titles: Tarzan and the Lion People, Tarzan the Courageous* & *Tarzan Courageous*	1941: IB is completed but rejected by McCall's Red Book and Blue Book as being: "...too gruesome and downbeat a story for us to consider at this time, can't you give us something a little cheerier?"	1914: Starts *Pellucidar* & prepares a long glossary & maps. (SP & TP Maps appear later in the series) 1923: Submits *Tarzan and the Antmen* - based on an idea suggested by Davis	1912: The Pioneer published at Camp E. S. Otis in the Canal Zone publish ERB's Nov 13 letter answering a trooper's fan letter 1925: Emma has gallbladder surgery & later suffers from arthritis
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1926: Starts *Tarzan Twins* 1940: Starts *Tarzan and the Castaways*	1934: Ed writes in his diary that Emma is bent on ruining him. 1940: Rothmund sends word that feedback on *Tarzan and the Jungle Murders* and The Giant of Mars is bad - many fans do not believe that ERB has written them	1934: Tarzan film expedition sails for Guatemala	1911: Submits the OT manuscript to Metcalf 1922: CM by McClurg 1948: John Lehti takes over the daily Tarzan strip.	1928: Completes TP (77,000 words). For one of the cities in the book Ed spells the nearby town Pacoima backwards: Amiocap 1929: How Tarzan Kept The Wolf From The Door - bio article on ERB is published in Literary Digest	1927: AD (sequel to WC) is rejected by Collier's, Liberty, Popular & Blue Book 1934: Dearholt reports casting problems for the Tarzan film. He is anxious to start a treatment on MK 1941: Living Dead appears in Fantastic Adventures ($400.60)	1934: *Swords of Mars* starts in Blue Book 1939: Suffers several slight heart attacks

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