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Monday, June 30, 2025
RED HARVEST by Dashiell Hammett
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025 and on this day eighty-one years ago in 1944, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ article, “Our Japanese Problem, was published in the Hawaii magazine. Burroughs. Burroughs was an unapologetic patriot and one might have expected a diatribe against the Japanese. It that’s what people expected they were disappointed. The article totally supported Japanese Americans, especially Japanese American soldiers. Burroughs condemned those who didn’t accept their contributions to America and the war effort. To quote, “I cannot forget that there are thousands of [Japanese] in Italy, fighting and dying at the side of other Americans; and I cannot conceive of America repaying them by disenfranchisement and deportation. There must be found a better way, a more American way."
Sunday, June 29, 2025
#edgarriceburroghs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 29, 2025
June 29, 2025 and fifty-two years ago on this day in 1973, actor Cecil Holland, who portrayed Colonel Vivier in the first authorized film based on a book by Edgar Rice Burrough, “The Lad and the Lion,” died. “The Lad and the Lion,” a silent film and one sadly lost, is about a young boy abandoned on a derelict ship with a lion. ERB wrote the pulp magazine version of the story in 1914 and revised and lengthened in 1938. “The Life of Pi” was written from 1999 to 2000 and published in 2001. Just saying. You don’t even have to use a decimal point to do the math.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 28, 2025
June 28, 2025 and 109 years ago on this day in 1916, The Burroughs family on their cross-country trip, stopped in Hannibal, Missouri and visited Mark Twain’s boyhood home. The family stopped in Hannibal for vehicle repairs, not an uncommon occurrence on a 1916 road trip. Not only did the visit Twain’s home, but Ed, Joan, and Hulbert visited “Tom Sawyer’s Cave.”
Friday, June 27, 2025
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 27, 2025
June 27, 2025 and seventy-two years ago on this day in 1953, the final episode, # 75, “Two in The Bush,” of the Commodore “Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle” radio series was broadcast, marking the end of new Tarzan radio broadcasts in the United States. Lamont Johnson was the voice of Tarzan. The introduction to each episode included the phrase, “from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs,” even though ERB didn’t write any of the episodes.
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 26, 2025
June 26, 2025 and 126 years ago on this day in 1899, Edgar Rice Burroughs became the treasurer of the American Battery Company in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Major George T. Burroughs was the president and his Ed’s brothers, George and Harry also worked there.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 15, 2025
June 25, 2025 and one hundred years ago on this day in 1925, Clarence “Bob” Hyde, the first and only president of the Burroughs Bibliophiles was born in Warren, Ohio. The next five paragraphs are from his obituary written by Linda Wilson Fuoco for the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 24, 2025
June 24, 2025 and eight-four years ago on this day in 1941, the Los Angeles Times reprinted a letter written by Edgar Rice Burroughs to the Honolulu Observer. The Times titled the missive, “Bulbous Domes and Nitwits.” Here’s their introduction to the letter:
“Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of "Tarzan," now is sojourning in Hawaii where, presumably, the Ape Man soon may start swinging from volcano to volcano and eating pineapple in the raw. Mr. Burroughs, regardless of Tarzan, however, has found time to write a "Letter to the Editor" -- the editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. This amusing missive, being applicable to the mainland as well as to the island paradise, is reproduced herewith.”
The entire letter and several more newspaper articles written by ERB are faithfully reproduced at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1441.html
The drabble for today, “Electing Stupid," is 100 words excerpted and edited for length from that article written by Edgar Rice Burroughs wherein he proposes that elected officials, specifically legislators, should be required to pass an intelligence test. Just as applicable a concern today as it was eighty-four years ago.
“Before anyone may become a candidate for elective or appointive office, he shall pass a intelligence test to prove how much native intelligence he has -- the kind of horse-sense intelligence that Will Rogers had.
"The present intelligence tests which determine I.Q. aren’t sufficient. 10-year-old children pass them. I don’t wish 10-year-old children to make laws.
"If our bulbous-domed psychologists huddled, they could evolve test as would at least keep a majority of the nitwits out of public office.
"If this fails, we can put the street cleaners in our Legislatures. At least we know they can read and write.”
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
#edgarriceburroughs - Every day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 23, 2025
June 23, 2025 and two years ago on this day in 2023, Actress Betta St. John, who played Fay Ames in “Tarzan the Magnificent,” and Diana Penrod in “Tarzan and the Lost Safari” died in Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom. As Diana in Lost Safari, she was captured by warriors from Opar. As Fay Ames in Magnificent, she plays the gullible wife of Lionel Jeffries, a woman who is tricked by Coy Banton, who was played by future Tarzan, Jock Mahoney.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 22, 2025
#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 21, 2025
June 21, 2025 and on this day seventy-five years ago, the film, “Tarzan and the Slave Girl,” was released in Mexico. Lex Barker was Tarzan, Vanessa Brown was Jane, and Denise Darcel was Lola, the titular slave girl. The working title for the film was “Tarzan and the Golden Lion.” Some location shooting was done in Baldwin Park, California, the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and the Iverson Movie Ranch. But most of the filming was done on the RKO Forty Acres backlot.