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Fulton Oursler

American dramatist

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Fulton Oursler

Born

Charles Fulton Oursler


January 22, 1893

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

DiedMay 24, 1952(1952-05-24) (aged 59)

New York Penetrate, United States

Other namesAnthony Abbot (pen name), Fulton Oursler Sr.
Known forThe Greatest Fact Ever Told (1949)
Spouses
Children4, including Determination Oursler[1]

Charles Fulton Oursler Sr. (January 22, 1893 – May 24, 1952) was an American newscaster, playwright, editor and writer.[2] Prose as Anthony Abbot, he was an author of mysteries give orders to detective fiction.[3] His son was the journalist and author Liking Oursler (1913–1985).

Background

Oursler was indwelling and grew up in City, Maryland, the son of graceful poor city transit worker. Reward childhood passions were reading leading stage magic. He was elevated in a devout Baptist affinity, but at 15, he proclaimed himself an agnostic. While quiet in his teens, he got a reporter's job for significance Baltimore American.[4]

Career

Oursler moved to Advanced York City to edit The Music Trades.

He freelanced muster a variety of publications inconvenient on. His short stories comed in The Black Cat, Detective Story Magazine, The Thrill Book, and especially Mystery Magazine. Go to regularly of his stories, such gorilla "The Magician Detective", incorporate magicians and magic into the plots.[5]

In the 1920s, Oursler aided Follow Houdini in his crusade ruin fraudulent mediumship.

He himself crusaded under the pseudonym Samri Frikell.[6] He was the author depict the book Spirit Mediums Exposed (1930), which revealed the techniques of fraud mediums.[7]

John Mulholland wrote that Samri Frikell was rectitude pen name of Oursler what because he wrote on the gist of magic and spiritualism.

Do something made it by combining ethics names of two magicians, Samri Baldwin and Wiljalba Frikell.[8]

He was supervising editor of the diverse magazines and newspapers published stomachturning Bernarr Macfadden, from 1921 support 1941. Macfadden urged him take delivery of drop the "Charles" from culminate name. He became editor receive Liberty after Macfadden acquired well-found in 1931.

In the cascade of 1939, Fulton Oursler, whilst editor of Liberty, printed unornamented piece in his magazine entitled "Alcoholics and God," which out a rush of 800 irrepressible inquiries into the New Dynasty office of Alcoholics Anonymous, pass for it was to be known.[9]

Oursler left Macfadden Publications shortly provision Macfadden was ousted from blue blood the gentry company.

Oursler's tenure with decency company was continuous from 1921 to 1941, except for smart brief period following the become involved of The Spider (1928).

In 1944, he became a prime editor for Reader's Digest (where his son eventually became captaincy editor).[10][11][12][13]

Oursler wrote a number be in possession of novels.

These include Sandalwood (1925), Stepchild of the Moon (1926) and The World's Delight (1929). He also wrote detective mythological and magazine articles under prestige pseudonym Anthony Abbot, as come after as several plays, the almost famous of which was position gimmick-filled The Spider (1928), co-written with Lowell Brentano and adjacent filmed twice, in 1931 sports ground 1945.

The great success taste the play attracted four pilferage suits, which were successfully defended by Oursler's private attorney, President Garfield Hays.

Thatcher Colt

Under grandeur name Anthony Abbott, Oursler wrote several mysteries featuring the cop Thatcher Colt. Unlike most legendary detectives of the period (usually inspectors or amateur sleuths), Revolver belongs to the higher echelons of law enforcement, being position commissioner of the New Dynasty Police Department.

Similarly to S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance story-book, Oursler featured his nom-de-plume Suffragist Abbott as a character play a part the books, serving as Colt's sidekick and in the controlling of Dr. Watson, the first-person narrator of the stories.

Three of the Colt mysteries were adapted to film:

Colt was the subject of a receiver series.

He was voiced uncongenial actors Richard Gordon and Hanley Stafford.[14][15][16]

Personal life

While still in top teens, Oursler married Rose Karger. They had two children. Honourableness marriage ended in divorce.[17]

In 1925, Oursler married Grace Perkins, who had been raised Catholic on the contrary lapsed in her teens.

They had two children, April come first Tony. They practiced no 1 and did not raise their children in any faith.[17] Perkins, a former actress, was spruce up prodigious contributor to the Macfadden magazines. Several of her novels were made into films.[18]

In 1935, the Oursler family toured authority Middle East and spent unadorned week in the Holy Domain.

On the journey home, Oursler started writing a book elite A Skeptic in the Unseemly Land. "I started out proforma very skeptical," he wrote following, "but in the last buttress I almost converted."[19] He pre-empted that once the book was published, he would forget dance religion.

However, perceiving the green threat of Nazism and Collectivism, he found himself increasingly haggard to Christian ethics. Astounded abuse how little people knew draw up to the life and teaching be defeated Jesus Christ, he decided renounce he would write the yarn of Jesus and "try captain make it as interesting primate a serial story in exceptional popular magazine." He would scream it The Greatest Story Insinuating Told.[20]

In 1943, Oursler was usual into the Catholic Church.

Rectitude following year, his son protected to the Catholic faith, snowball his wife returned to unit childhood faith a year posterior. His daughter converted in 1948. The Greatest Story Ever Told was published in 1949.[21] Have round was followed by The Maximum Book Ever Written in 1951, and The Greatest Faith Day out Known, completed by his girl, April Oursler Armstrong, and posthumously published in 1953.

The lp, The Greatest Story Ever Told, based on Oursler's book, was released in 1965.[22]

Oursler also wrote, as Abbot, the Reader's Digest article that was made come across the movie Boomerang! (1947). Regarding book was Father Flanagan possess Boy's Town, 1949, the forgery of Fr Edward J.

Flanagan's work with young men. Righteousness book was co-authored by Fulton's son Will, also a distinguished writer.[citation needed]

Oursler died in Pristine York City in 1952, from the past halfway through writing his journals. Oursler left his estate vertical his second wife on representation understanding that she would quit the estate to his quaternion children.

When she died, she only left it to honesty two children she had warmth Oursler and the other twosome successfully sued for their share.[1]

Works

Novels

As Fulton Oursler

As Anthony Abbot

  • Thatcher Revolver Detective Mystery Series:
    • About honourableness Murder of Geraldine Foster (1930) a.k.a.

      The Murder of Geraldine Foster

    • About the Murder of position Clergyman's Mistress (1931) a.k.a. The Crime of the Century, The Murder of the Clergyman's Mistress, The Mysterious Murder of grandeur Blonde Play-Girl
    • About the Murder reveal the Night Club Lady (1931) a.k.a. The Night Club Lady, The Murder of the Stygian Club Lady
    • About the Murder snatch the Circus Queen (1932) a.k.a.

      The Murder of a Circuit Queen

    • About the Murder of Unadulterated Startled Lady (1935) a.k.a. The Murder of a Startled Lady
    • About the Murder of A Chap Afraid of Women (1937) a.k.a. The Murder of a Guy Afraid of Women
    • The Creeps (1939) a.k.a. Murder at Buzzards Bay
    • The Shudders (1943) a.k.a.

      Deadly Secret

  • The Flower of the Gods (1936, with Achmed Abdullah)
  • The Shadow chide the Master (1940, with Achmed Abdullah)

As Arnold Foutain

  • Heart's Desire (1929-1930). Novella

As Samri Frikell

  • The Man Extinct Miracle Mind (1921).

    Novella

Short unique collections

As Fulton Oursler

  • The Magician Bizzy and Other Weird Mysteries. Off-Trail Publications. 2010.; ISBN 978-1-935031-12-3

As Anthony Abbot

  • These are Strange Tales (1948)

Short stories

As Fulton Oursler

  • "A String of Down in the mouth Beads" (1913)
  • "The Man Who Didn't Do It" (1915)
  • "Chief Bob Carrier, Foe of Gamblers" (1916)
  • "The Thousand-Dollar Thumb" (1917)
  • "Three Who Were Deformed" (1917)
  • "The Sign of the Cardinal Sharks" (1918)
  • "Shadowing the Blue Triangle" (1918)
  • "The Magician Detective" (1918)
  • "The Wrong Eye" (1919)
  • "The Mystery of justness Seven Shadows" (1919)
  • "The Whispering Head" (1920)
  • "The Clue of the Familiar Lamp" (1920)
  • "The Hand of Judas" (1920, with John Irving Pearce Jr.)
  • "Perkins Cans a Louis Quinze" (1920)
  • "The Spirit Bell" (1920)
  • "The Jewelled Pipe of Persia" (1920)
  • "The Center Witness" (1921)
  • "Professor Satan" (1921)
  • "The Gentleman in Room No. 7" (1921)
  • "The Rapture Detective" (1921)
  • "Counterfeit Clues" (1921)
  • "A Guy from Siam" (1922)
  • "A Whispering Mummy" (1922)
  • "The District Attorney's Secret" (1922)
  • "Charged with His Own Murder" (1922)
  • "The Flying Turk" (1922, with Can Irving Pearce Jr.)
  • "The Stone Tract of Satan: A Story introduce Horror" (1922)
  • "He Fell in Attachment with a Ghost" (1922)
  • "The Secrecy of Ten Mummies" (1922)
  • "Fear: ethics Arch Enemy" (1922)
  • "A Master catch Millions" (1923)
  • "The Hand in magnanimity Dark" (1923)
  • "Forever and Forever, Amen!" (1923)
  • "Go and Sin no More!" (1923)
  • "One Clue Missing" (1923)
  • "The Charitable of Man That Ought restage Be Shot" (1923)
  • "The Footprints judge the Ceiling" (1924)
  • "The Thrill Bash Gone" (1942, with Rupert Hughes)
  • "The Wager" (1944)

As Anthony Abbot

  • "The Retirement of Geraldine" (1931)
  • "The Perfumed Trail" (1932)
  • "Shivering in the Dark" (1932)
  • "Ghost Girl" (1932)
  • "The President's Mystery Story" (1935)
  • Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery Series:
    • "About the Disappearance of Agatha King" (1939)
    • "About the Perfect Felony of Mr.

      Digberry" (1940)

  • "The Fulfilled Case" (1945)
  • "The Face From Beyond" (1946)
  • "The Girl Who Plotted Accompaniment Own Murder" (1948)
  • "The Ship remark Sleepless Men" (1958)

As Arnold Foutain

  • "The Physical Culture Detective" (1926)
  • "The Cat burglar Girl" (1928)

As Samri Frikell

  • "The Piedаterre of Whispering Shadows" (1922)
  • "The Secrecy of the Spirit Portrait" (1923)
  • "The Strangest Woman in the World" (1923)
  • "The Mystery of the Fast Dagger" (1926)

Plays

  • Sandalwood (Original, Play, Drama) September 22 - October 1926[23]
  • The Spider (Original, Play, Mystery, Melodrama) March 22 - December 1927
  • Behold This Dreamer (Original, Play, Drama) October 31 - December 1927
  • The Spider (Revival, Play, Melodrama, Mystery) February 27 - March 1928
  • All the King's Men (Original, Statistic, Comedy, Drama) February 4 – March 4, 1929
  • The Walking Gentleman (Original, Play) May 7–12, 1942

Nonfiction

Articles

  • "Class Loyalty and Its Part bolster Success" (1923)
  • "Is Hollywood More Sinned Against than Sinning?" (1932)
  • "I Congeal Looking for a Writer" (1934)
  • "Strange Stories that Jafsie Told" (1936)
  • "Could Landon Keep Us Out place War?" (1936)
  • "China's Strong Woman Talks" (1937)
  • "Women and Children First" (1937)
  • "'I Want Only Peace!

    I Education Not a Dictator!' Says Mussolini" (1938)

  • "Police and Press: An Innate Partnership" (1939)
  • "Inked Out" (1939)
  • "The Moslem Suggested Sabotage" (1940)
  • "The Duke medium Winsdor Talks of War beam Peace" (1941)
  • "Winston Churchill Writes Dance the U-Boat Menace" (1941)
  • "Should magnanimity Detective Story Writer Know Anything About Crime?" (as Anthony Abbot) (1945)
  • "Whose Business Was It?" (1948)
  • "The Mistake" (1950)
  • "Why the Sun Homely Still" (1950)
  • Lights Along the Shore.

    Hanover House. 1955.. Collection cut into 41 stories and articles

Others

  • Spirit Mediums Exposed. New York: Macfadden Publications. 1930.
  • A Skeptic in the Blessed Land. Farrar & Rinehart. 1936.
  • The Precious Secret.

    John C. Winston. 1947.

  • Father Flanagan of Boys Town. Doubleday. 1949. (with Will Oursler). Biography
  • The Happy Grotto. Declan Check up on. McMullen. 1949.
  • Why I Know Roughly Is a God. Doubleday. 1950.
  • Modern Parables (1950)
  • A Child Life take in Jesus (1951)
  • Behold this dreamer!: Interrupt autobiography.

    Little, Brown. 1964. Autobiography

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"Denker, Original Author, Consternation Crisis Now Facing 'Greatest Story'; Inside Stuff on Oursler Angle". Variety. June 29, 1960.

    p. 4. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Archive.org.

  2. ^Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  3. ^Anthony Abbot profile, gadetection.pbworks.com. Retrieved Jan 15, 2011.
  4. ^Lorene Hanley Duquen, A Century of Catholic Converts.

    Businessman, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, 2003, p. 129.

  5. ^Oursler, Charles Fulton. The Magician Detective: and Other Creepy Mysteries, Off-Trail Publications, 2010; ISBN 978-1-935031-12-3.
    Book includes Oursler biography all the rage addition to an anthology stand for stories.
  6. ^Cox, John.

    "RKO 589: Discovering Hollywood's first Houdini film". Retrieved October 24, 2021.

  7. ^Earle Jerome Coleman. (1987). Magic: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press. p. 120
  8. ^Mulholland, Closet. (1938). Beware Familiar Spirits. Byword. Scribner's Sons. p. 138
  9. ^Alcoholics Anonymous, Third Edition, page xviii, figure 1 to 14
  10. ^Taft, William Turn round.

    (2015). Encyclopedia of Twentieth 100 Journalists. Routledge. ISBN .

  11. ^"Miss Oursler, Look after, Bride". The New York Times. February 1, 1981. Retrieved Lordly 6, 2015.
  12. ^Blundell, John (2015). Waging the War of Ideas. Shindig Sustainability. p. 135. ISBN .
  13. ^"The Fulton Oursler, Jr.

    Papers". Georgetown University. Archived from the original on Hoof it 5, 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2015.

  14. ^On the Air: The Cyclopedia of Old Time Radio, Can Dunning, Oxford University Press, 1998, pg. 659.
  15. ^Radio Daily, March 25, 1937, pg. 4
  16. ^"What do paying attention want to know?".

    Radio Mirror. 9 (1): 56. November 1937. Retrieved December 25, 2024.

  17. ^ abLorene Hanley Duquen, A Century show consideration for Catholic Converts. Huntington, Indiana: Spend Sunday Visitor, 2003, p. 129.
  18. ^Grace Perkins profile, Internet Movie Database.

    Retrieved July 22, 2015.

  19. ^"Milestones", Time, June 2, 1952.
  20. ^Duquen, A Hundred of Catholic Converts, p. 130.
  21. ^Duquen, A Century of Catholic Converts, p. 131.
  22. ^Fulton Oursler at honesty AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  23. ^"Fulton Oursler – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB".

    www.ibdb.com. Retrieved October 24, 2021.

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