Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-16
NOW THEY'VE FILMED
MAKING OF A BOOK
Doubleday Page Put Out a Film
Showing Manufacture of
Author Seton's Book

Inc picture HauB OIL country
Press at Garden City, and which has been
shown in New York at the Lord & Taylor
Bookshop conducted by Doubleday, Page
Co. has recently been enlarged and per-
fected and will be exhibited all over the
country on the Pathe educational circuit
and loaned to libraries, churches and such
educational institutions as may care for It..
The picture shows the editorial and me-
chanlcal processes concerned in book and
magazine making and also scenes character
istic of this press-the farm and co.opera.
tive grocery store, the little hospital and the
trained nurses the italian pool, the gardens,
sun dial, fountains, court and employees
playing. at bowls. tennis, John Martin frol-
licking with children on the lawn and the
rest.
One sees the author Mr. Ernest Thomp-
son Seton, arrive with the manuscript of
his new book. the whole progress of the
book is shown, from the time when the
great rolls of paper are passed from the
freight train into the pressroom down to the
completed volumes packed in cases leave
for the bookseller by motortruck. Applica'
tions for film already received Indicate that
it will be shown perhaps 1000 times in
1916 and be seen by many thousand persons.
Librarians and others have been some
what puzzled by the name Francis
Sullivan tighe author of THE Portion of a
Champion" an Irish romance recently
brought out by the Scribners. The WASH
ington Public Library is said to have cata-
logued him Tighe, F. o.; and the librarian
OF Congress wrote him second time asking
for a fuller explanation The fact OF the
thing is, "tighe" Cspelled with a small y
.t.H tl,o In, Tri1 nd in he
period of the book 18th century, the name
would have been written 20 Sullivan tighe."
In private life, however, he is merely Mr..
Sullivan, not Mr., Tighe
Mrs. wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" that
apparently inexhaustible literary gold mine,
has Just reached it's 50th edition.
Some years ago Carl Crow. whose recent
book, Japan and America" has been called
one of the best presentations OF Japanese
aims and achievements written In many
years. was a cub reporter on Texas news
paper. one of his duties being to cover the
police station One day just before press
time he made his usual trip to see the desk
sergeant.
Have great story for you." said the
sergeant. I'VE arrested a parrot out on
Front street a while ago on a charge OF
using abusive language. The nelghbors
complained so much we had to go out and
locls the old bird up"
After getting a few more details. Crow
rushed back to the Office and wrote funny
story about the arrest of the bird.
He was congratulating himself on land
ing a story on the first page an hour or SO
after the paper got on the streets, when the |
telephone bell rang and he had to listen to
a torrent of abuse from an irate lady at |
the other end of the line, II developed that |
she was Mrs Parrot and she had been ar
rested for using abusive language. but she |
bitterly resented being written up as a |
bird. After she had exhausted her Yocabu- |
larry and was preparing for new start. she |
asked
What is your manner?
Grow" said the reporter
What did you say?"
said my name was Crow"
You think you are damn smart, don't |
your said the freshly insulted Mrs Parrot |
as she hung up the receiver
To the traveller OF today the pleasure
is seldom vouchsafed OF visiting really new
territory. and much more rare is the iov
OF being one of the first of modern men 10
tread the streets of an entire city unrlvaled
IN location and unknown to history This
was the experience OF Harry A Franck,
the unconventional young globe trotter, who
wrote "A Vagabond Journey Around the
world when during his recent four years
pedestrian odyssey OF South America he Wis.
tied Machu Picchu. the mysterious white
granite city OF the Incas or their predeces-
sors which was for so many centuries un.
known to civilized man, lost, as It was, in
the Businesses OF the Peruvian Andes. Few
Americans indeed, can have seen these
Splendid ruins, the most splendid pre-Co-
lumbian ruins in the Western Hemisphere,
whieh were preserved from the ravages of
treasure hunters by an impenetrable Jungle
until Prof Hiram Bingham, ereditinE the
rumors OF the Indian natives. discovered
them In 1911. Mr. Franck will contribute
10 the July Century an illustrated account
of his expedition TO the lost city, the frst
y series OF articles on his South Ameri.
can experiences in general