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Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 15,000 Webpages in Archive Volume 0570 |
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Birthday (1872) 1898: Ed has a supply of photo bills printed for the store. Minidoka is later written on the backs of some of these bills 1914: TA reviewed in Nation mag 1948: Experiences angina pains. Nitro-glycerine doesn't work & turns to bourbon. Growing reliance on bourbon for all ills |
1929: Starts JG with combination Ediphone dictation & longhand approach. 1940: Starts SP pt 2 1944: Starts Savage Pellucidar pt 4. Dedication in 1963 SP 1st ed: "To my first grandson - James Michael Pierce." |
1925: ELby McClurg 1934: Ed's flying instructor, Jim Granger, is killed in a plane crash |
1923(3): Writes to Hollywood Athletic Club promoting application of M.DeMond, a Jew Supported him before when he had applied for membership in Writer's Club 1929: Toronto Star complaint that the story line in the Tarzan strips is "thinning out" coincides with poor sales of G&D Tarzan strip book |
1912: Submits 3,500-word western For the Fool's Mother to Story-Press Corp 1931: Oct. 4: Appearance of 1st Hal Foster Tarzan Sunday page Terror From the Skies 2003: WB Tarzan TV series debuts |
1919: Oakdale Affair released by World Film Corp 1940: Starts Men of the Bronze Age," pt 3 of new Pellucidar series 1952: Whitman releases abridged editions of CiG and FC |
1935: Oct: Tarzan and the Immortal Men TQ
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1921: Efficiency Expert appears as 4-part serial in All-Story 1932: Terrace Drive Murder appears in Script Mag 1949: This month the Sunday Tarzan strip format is changed from tab to half-page |
1903: Ed sends his father an illustrated birthday letter,
informing him that he is taking correspondence lessons in drawing and is
still hoping to be a cartoonist
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1917: PM by McClurg. Cover illo is by Frank E. Schoonover. Dedication is: "To My Son Jack." 1927: Tarzan Twins by P. F. Volland Co with illos by Donald Grant with dedication: "To Joan, Hulbert and Jack, who were brought up on Tarzan stories, this volume is affectionately dedicated by their father." |
1919: Moving Picture Herald praises Oakdale Affair 
1938: Burroughses arrive home at Tarzana having driven down the coast from Vancouver |
1912: Metcalfe sends story ideas for a TA sequel (RT) 1942: Oct: Writes Caryl Lee suggesting that she keep the Burroughs name now that her mother has remarried 1946: Oct 20: Ed is visited by 4 fans: "A Mr. Evans and his daughter, Mr. Ackerman, and 'Tigrina', a pretty blonde." 1958: Gordon Griffin dies |
1929: b. Joyce MacKenzie - Jane in Tarzan and the She Devil 1930: Ed writes nephew Studley that he has given $10,000 to son-in-law James Pierce who has gone into business with the Cal.Vitamine Co. to develop a new chicken feed made from dehydrated oranges 1946: Following tradition, Ed observes his father's 113th birthday |
1916: Girl from Farris's serial ends in All-Story Weekly 1944: Family bury ERB's mother's ashes at the south side of the walnut tree in the front yard of the Burroughs offices in Tarzana  |
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1938: TA voted second best Argosy story of all time 1940: Starts Living Dead pt 2 of the new Venus series 1946: EV by ERB Inc. Dedication is: To Brigadier General Kendall J. Fielder an Intelligence Officer (G-2), U.S. Army at Fort Shafter, Honolulu  |
Who
Murdered Mr. Thomas? in Script Mag
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1934: Oct: Olympic athlete Herman Brix is chosen to play Tarzan in Guatemala. Ed refuses to write a movie tie-in novel, preferring to leave the promotion to a special Whitman Big Little Book, a Tarzan Club campaign, & Signal Oil 1938: Starts LT - it's rejected by all magazines. ERB is losing confidence in his work. |
1916: Ed makes contact with favourite poet, H. H. Knibbs of LA 1924: BHB serial ends in Argosy 
1939: Ed guests on Ken Murray's Texaco Star Theater featuring Home Life of Mr. & Mrs. Tarzan or The Apes of Wrath |
1892: Letter home suggests he is lonely & misses his family but has channeled excess energies into football 1920: TTe serial ends in British magazine, Ideas 1927: Ed gives Joan a rough draft of a play written for her: You Lucky Girl! - Not performed until 1997 at Palmdale Playhouse, CA 1947: Returns to writing. Writes a 6 week story in 1 week - a newspaper strip? 1962: TP from Canaveral |
1934: Moves temporarily into the Dearholt apartment in West Hollywood when lease on his Pinehurst Road home runs out 1934: Tarzan the Fearless BLB by Whitman  |
1929: Oct Universal releases Tarzan and the Tiger - 2nd serial based onTarzan and Jewels of Opar purchased in 1922. ERB receives no royalties from either of the Universal serials 1934: Ed & Flo travel to Las Vegas where he takes up residency. He spends his time playing tennis, writing, phoning Flo, & in visits to LA. Emma plans to contest the divorce & moves to 10452 Bellagio Road in Bel Air. |
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1932: Oct: Signal Oil organizes the Tarzan Club which by Dec 1933 has grown to 125,000 members 1935: For promotion the Courier-Journal & Louisville Times request a political speech for Tarzan. Ed composes a 600-word campaign speech delivered by N'kima who supports Tarzan's Nude Deal Platform  |
Time Forgot) 1919: Methuen's first British edition of Jungle Tales of Tarzan UK Editions 1928: Continuing longtime correspondence with Gen. Chas King, Ed sends him 84th birthday congratulations 
1929: Elser talks ERB out of investing in the LA Monkey Farm |
1914: Mucker serial in All-Story Cavalier Weekly C.H.A.S.E.R. Biblio 1928: Methuen buy Tarzan and the Ant Men 1929: Ed responds to Metropolitan request for promo material by submitting the rambling article, My Diversions describing his activities & philosophies 1940: Starts Escape on Mars pt 3 of the new Mars series 1940: Starts Beyond the Farthest Star start of a new series on planet Poloda |
1928: Ed endorses some of the ideas of WR. Thurston concerning the hazards of "excessive sexual intercourse" & overpopulation by mental, moral & physical defectives. ERB is witness to an exchange of written arguments between Thurston and GB Shaw 1941: Starts Skeleton Men of Jupiter the first of a planned new John Carter series. Blue Book rejects - appears in Amazing, Feb 1943  |
1913: Starts Mad King of Lutha (MK) (40,000 wrd) 1933: Informs Dahlquist he is not satisfied with the radio show - plans to take over script writing with episode 248. He contacts Neebe, informing him of his plan to take over the show in March 1934 
ERB Radio 1935: Lightship Murder in Script |
1929: Article, How I Wrote the Tarzan Books appears in Wash. Post & NY World 1933: Pomona College Dean forwards a report of unsatisfactory work by Jack in Math. Ed responds with a humorous limerick 1941: Hulbert reports to Rothmund that he has talked his father out of drinking so heavily & his health is much improved |
1930: ERB starts but never finishes a story about a young Tarzan (1,170 words) 1934: LA Times reports that ERB has taken up residence in Las Vegas, hinting that most temporary residents are there for quick divorces 1945: Ed boards a plane for mainland |
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1945: Ed is greeted at Hamilton Field by Jack & Lt. Middleton  |
1931: Tarzan, Guard of the Jungle TIstarts in Blue Book
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1920: Mucker by A.C. McClurg 1935: Rents Palm Springs home for 8 months. Time at the Racquet Club owned by Ralph Bellamy & Charles Farrell. Bellamy becomes a "kind of stepfather" kids. Weissmuller gives swimming lessons |
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1928: Tarzan and the Lost Empire starts in Blue Book
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1912: All-Story publishes TA complete in one issue, illustrated by Clinton Pettee 1925: Hollywood is a poem probably written for the Breakfast Club |
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