The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1934, Page 4

“THE KEY. WEST CITIZéN TUESDAY, APRIL 2% i YOUNG SHULTZ. | ‘SOCIETY MACoCoa~Danosesee Back of the publication of “The Life of Our Lord” by Charles, Diekens, beginning Monday, April 23, in The Key West Citizen, is a dramatic story of modern busi- ness, 5 ga Several weeks ago cables sent the news around: the world. that dis ‘tatters -of* i The London Daily Mail had pur- Importance tothe ‘churn circle, [chased finst publicstion sights to ind it 18 expected’ that’ there’ will |The Life of our'Lord” for the un- :pbe fell membership in attendance. précedented sum of $15 a word ee ae j ited Feat di .s i: ing ere : 2 and that-Uni ure Syndicate will Hold a dinner sale in of New York had obtained all pub- . ere ° lieation rights for North and South $f ©. balding oppose ta Fo Condact Meeting ‘America. ‘ {features are prohibitively expen-|breath after losing out in the bid, tomorrow starti Where: will Bee Paw oaths Word that a ay psi bead if any one newspaper under-!ding in London. Now they began meeting would be made. available for pub-|takes to buy them, but when the|to bid in New York. They came excellent Y Juni ‘ati i ‘ 5 - pone oe ae ary Ualenchadiux Rane as ae had precipitated: a Sard jsyadi te buys an expensive fea-|to us. with offers that nearly took including Aes iad fend| tonight. 1 rs a 0 scramble among newspapers, jane it is in a position to sell pub-| our breath away. It would have m Fice; miscaroni mi Gea ad oo publishers, syndicate mahiagers/lication rights to a number of been an easy matter to have sold = ions tomatoes. eS Bd sean. % be Page ces Nos: and magazine editors for first! newspapers and’ thus reduce the|the rights then’ and there and to made fora er cra ne rights. Airplanes, transatlantic | cost to reasonable limits for each{have stepped out of the picture . K ts ral. mat at ha interest telephones, radio and cables were newspaper. with. a very, handsome profit. mie connee perigrig s d, used in : ¥ “What reasonable limits would} “However, the syndicate exists’ ert large] "* Monte Bourjaily, general man-jbe in the case of the Dickens|primarily to serve newspapers, number i inattendance. ager of United. Feature: Syndi- manuscript, nobody knew. But;We had an opportunity to assure ‘cate, “interviewed for. The»Citizen,|what.we did know was that this| newspapers of-the biggest feature tells of the events leading up to! opportunity could come only ehce| scoop: sof: our day. The discovery the forthcoming: publication. Be-|in a lifetime. “We did know that! of the manuscript was news. Its sinning with. the manuscript it-}an unpublished work by the author | publication in The Citizen will be Mr. out that) of ‘Dawid Copperfield,’ ‘The.Pi¢k-|a mat ding ‘news en- petite telcice eied "4A Gbristmas Car erp | tee sdieo c r led the diseov- plans of “The Tale: of, Two. Cities,’ ‘Oliyer | ¢ ‘iTwist,’ and the ‘tst.of the perishable’ “Diekens’ stories be, on publication, an ¢ not” North’. Carolina « Jawyer, i itade. . -_ agsil offered forsale, it ‘will'doubtless| Secretary of the: Navy, Us8' bring’ forth astounding*bids.” What] ator, born. at New. Bern; N.. they may amount ois indicated} Died at’ Raleigh, N. C., May “1 by the fact that the great’ expert, | 1686. mise e Dr. A. 8... W.: :Rosenbach: -paidj $37,500 for. only five pages of} the -original manuscript of ‘Pick- wick Papers.’ (Before a few friends yester- There will be a meeting. of the Afternoon 4:30 o’clock in the} Daughters of the King of. St. of Judge Hugh Gunn, David] Paul’s' Church-held tomorrow aft- officiated. Witnesses to the cerémony were Mary Kemp and Leroy Roberts. ; " - a ge : on the Dickens . manuscript, wal E (Busin ; a Of < 4 Were upsetting a custom flat had AMS DAIRY : \ “ become pretty well standardized | a ok ails an CAL i cae e But: then we were facing ‘a. situa- OPENS B Di ens Manusc t tion, ‘the like of ‘which had, not ‘ 4 happened in our time, and was --r is a < not likely to happen again. fio orded $e aE al of Pap rs modestly enough but swiftly it ‘has areca te wong The aed growing demand for Adams Dairy 3 CO a ae j rose to precipitous heights. ; “The Life of Our is news| SUper duality, products, a branch} W. SHULTZ IS THEA. “Now here, in order to give the|and very important news. And it station has been established in the, TEK 7AANAGER picture to people who are not ac-|i8 because of this recognition that Maloney building at the corner of; quainted with newspaper ’ syndi.|The Citizen has bought publica-| White and Division streets. yea . oe I yi to try to make some}tion rights. | ore ee ee John D. Shutlz, 21. years old,| 0 usiness things clear. Everybod: “After we received i FARE Ay bed eeup- _ i The meeting is scheduled to start understands in general why oa im that announced the Siding ‘aa |ply of these products will. be-awail., mamseer of the Georgia Theater at 4:30 o'clock. : dividyal magazine or book. pub-|closed- anid first serial publication {ble there at all times. A gom. in Atlanta, is one of the youngest This will be a special session to lishing concern or an individual tights for North and South Amer:|Piete line of. sandwiches; | leakés,c theater smapagers i that city.) He} \/ J newspaper would be anxious tof ea had been won by United Fea-|i¢s#coffee and\smokers’ supplies is ‘the ‘grandson of Mr. and Mrs.| Every half hour Puff hear# the get first publication rights te any|ture Syndicate, we faced a new|"#s'been stockeds “0: oss sugonc William oGhntla, eg nitesjs, ship’ oS ey é te. was born in Floridaj} He likes to be: presént when “old San,Atianta newspaper, but| “Sailors tell’. > : has madeshis home in Atlanta for ;, : Wiaigekt 1%) years... Ho graduated sing of-storm-and- disaster at eeeveeveveecesesee from Boys’ High School and later} “"” Today's went to Emory University where ;And ships. that have. passed ‘into . : + mea member of the Pi_Kappa| _ mystery, Anniversaries. "sn. ; SCOCCOESSCESAAAeEDAESE8e8 o es NER SALE | | He worked at the theater while attending: college and. when he } Wednesday, Starts 11:00 a.m. 1741—Samvel Chase, Maryland left three years ago was appoint--} K. of P..HALL (Opp. Church) signer of the Declaration of In.. ed assistant manager. Three weeks Auspices Ladies of ~ dependence, Justice: of the U.S, 9g0 he was appointed , manager | FLEMING STREET CHURCH Supreme Court, ‘1796-1811, born and despite his. few: years he is|} Good Cooked , Food, in Somerset Co., Md. _ Died in, poised and self assuréd in his job,; Cakes, and Home-Made.. Washington, D. C., June 19, 1811,; With a natural friendliness’ that} Pies a Specialty ~ ; | should: take*him far as an execu! {+ 25c PLATE™. 1722 — ‘Archibald Alexander, tive. plea. at dag noted “Presbyterian clergyman, Ce ae PALA CE college president, The- Jimmie (Schnogzle) Dickens manuscript, but I believe |problem.. ‘That problem was to|+ An advertisentent in°today’s general -knowledge of a syndi-|sell rights to newspapers, , [per announces the opeding’and in- ~ cate’s function is somewhat yague. | “And here the magazines eng] Vites “the “public No) pay tae: Som “The syndicate exists to sell, tered the field again. ‘The maga. |P!#ee_# visit. features to newspapers. Some/zine editors had taken a new e BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 49 Years’ Key West's Oldest 24-Hour Ambulance Service . Licensed Embalmer Night €96-W diogical . Semin born in, Virginia) .Died 1851. and. Lupe Velez in PALOOKA 1795—Georgé Matinee, 10-1Sc;' Night; 183 Bourjaily... “The author. hadjthe manuscript itself, but we did Teft it to his sister-in-law, Geor-| not feel that we were guessing @ina~ Hogarth, who, in turn had! about its value. We had too much ueathed i Sir‘Henry; Field-| faith in the genius of the man who ing Dickens withthe stipulation had created Micawber, Sairy ADAMS DAIRY SUPER QUALITY PRODUCTS 1842—Charles H! ‘Parkhurst, militant New York _ reformer. clergyman ‘of° a generation ago,| rt @ stay x relatives in Key West, nae E, % Mrs. Thurston. Johnson, thing street, is in Jacksonville, ere she will be the guest’ one. month of her daughter, irs. J, D. Segal, formerly Miss} publishing world afire. What the/ding. And it was because ‘these! Johnson, isiting her daughter, Mrs, Harry olley and son, Frank Sheppard, Daytona Beach, was a return- ‘la few days, we realized we were 6, of the: departments |"; man’s, left Sunday Mrs. Raymond Pierce was an val Sunday’ on the- Havana ial from. Miamj and is the est of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.| © Catala, snev@spaper ‘ sg hg NU J, Plantation Key,} st. over the highway, ‘ac. tee anrt|qenbatied by Mis. Cabanas. ena he now in charge of the mechanical department of The Artman Press. us i “48 Sir Henry hin and} surviving child and after he died born at’ Framingham, Mass, Died! sented to have facsimiles made of|in ‘Atlahtic Gity, N, J. Sept. 8] the. original manuscript. Photo-'!1933, . : graphers in London: worked all of j : 4 one day undér Lady Dickens’ eyes! 1813-Susan, Fenimore, Cooper, to have these facsimiles made un-| author and.-philanthropist, daugh- der» glass... These.» reproductions! ter.and associafe of the. great novelist, born at, Scarsdale, N. Y. Died-Dee.-81,:4894. ‘ : BED is that it was ‘not to be ‘published|Gamp, Little Nell,’ Bill Sykes and the last. 3 child died.jthe whole immortal gallery of was the last/ Dickens characters. to a Hace “However, to ae Lo aah eR in” ion last De ber hisisure, we got into touch by tel dene ae it the family! phone pa, Kae bs with editors had decided ‘to offer the manu-/in key cities of the, United States, | Seript for publication. Canada and Latin America. We. will be an interesting part of the “That quidt little announce-| needed their support if we were! publication.in .The® Citizen,” ment ‘was the signal: that set the|to keep up the precipitous bid- “However, Lady Dickens con- value of publication rights would | editors saw eye to eye with us on f. That was/the value of publication rights Set out by train, steamer and gir-| there was a call constantly for plane headed for London. Within! more money. = “They saw eye to eye with us, in the midst of one of the great-| too, on the fact that this first fest literary land-rushes in .his-| publication of ‘The Life of Our A “|| Lard’ would be a worldwide news “The first thing we did was to| event. The custom had long de- cable to E. L. Keen, our European! yeloped in the publishing business manager, then: in Paris,:to fly to|that when a manuscript of im- London to open. negotiations with} portance was.on the market, the Curtis Brown, Ltd., ry. agents} magazines bought first rights, If ;From) a leading névelist of today turns nstant| outa new ‘stoty, the usual. order touch with us by cable.“ Some-/ of procedute is for the author to ti there were as,many as ten/ sell serial Tights to a magazine, ee ‘avday-cabled back-and| then book publishing rights; ‘and fe Thousands of words were! then, later, what are called sec- used as instructions were -'trans-,ond serial tights to newspapers. mitted and we..were apprised of |1w this fashion, the author would new developments in the negotia-| cash in for the most money. tions, . 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