Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp., 1950, 1935
Chapter XXVI Our Literati
"Edgar Rice Burroughs [1875-1950], the Tarzan author, owns a small valley that pours into the San Bernando and, lives the life of a country gentleman in a house built by General Harrison Gray Otis. Burroughs wrote his first Tarzan story in a cheap room in Chicago when absolutely flat broke. His royalties probably exceed those of any other writer in Hollywood . . .
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