TURNS ABOUT TOWN
ROBERT CORTES HOLLIDAY
By ROBERT CORTES HOLLIDAY
Turns About Town
Men and Books and Cities
Broome Street Straws
Walking-Stick Papers
Peeps at People
Booth Tarkington
The Memoir To:
Joyce Kilmer: Poems
Essays and Letters
TURNS ABOUT
TOWN
BY
ROBERT CORTES HOLLIDAY
NEW
YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1921,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING
THE
DEDICATION
OF THIS BOOK
TO JOHN BUNKER, ESQRE
The Players,
16 Gramercy Park,
New York City,
June 10, 1921.
Dear John:
I am, with your permission, dedicating to you a new book ofmine—that it, on condition that you help me read the proofs. Thebook is to be called "Turns About Town." It will be publishedsometime this autumn.
Ever yours,
Bob.
To: John Bunker, Esqre
New York,
521 West 148th Street,
June 12, 1921.
Dear Bob:
You can't intimidate me by any such threat. On the contrary, Ithink I shall be secretly (and tremendously) pleased. As for theproofs, all I have to say is (in the words of the stage villain),"Produce your proofs!"
Always, dear Bob,
Sincerely yours,
John.
To: Robert Cortes Holliday, Esqre
FOREWORD
MORE than half of these pieces were syndicated in a number of Americannewspapers by The Central Press Association of New York. Several othersof them originally appeared in The Bookman. "Literary Lives" has beenamplified since it was written for the New York Times as a review ofthe "Dictionary of National Biography," Second Supplement, Volumes IIand III. "Only She Was There" and "Former Tenant of His Room" arereprinted from the New York Evening Post. "The Sexless Camera" wascontributed to a magazine called The International. "I Know an Editor"was written at the invitation of a gentleman whose name I cannot recall,and whether or not he ever used it in whatever publication it was withwhich he was connected I do not know.
I thank all these friends of mine for permitting me to here reprintthese articles.
R. C. H.
New York, 1