FRANK SCULLY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/15/1938 - HFSID 31740
Price: $160.00
FRANK SCULLY
Variety columnist Frank Scully wrote this letter on his
personalized "Bedside Manor" stationery to fellow columnist Louis Sobol in 1938.
In it, he scolded Sobol for leaving Holylwood for New York without visiting him.
Scully is best remembered for his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers,
about a supposed flying saucer crash in Aztec, New Mexico.
Autographletter signed "Sempre FS" in pencil. Pencil
marks on verso in unknown hand. 1 page, 8x9¾, on Scully's personalized
Bedside Manor stationery. Aug. 15, 1938. In full: "Dear Louis:-
'They say' you ' ve gone back to N.Y. So again I dont [sic] see
you. You know, Louis,this cant [sic] go on forever. Jim Tally's
plus beau geste is the talk of the town and everybody says you wrote it!
More fun. But my opponent has not spent $8000 for bill board as his answer to an
unkept press. Merci mille fois.(Sue and I'll settle for half a million.)".
"Louis" is probably New York journalist LOUIS SOBOL (1896-1986), who
wrote a gossip-oriented entertainment column for 40 years, initially
focused on the Broadway stage but also covering film and TV personalities
for the New York Journal American. American journalist
FRANK SCULLY (1892-1964) was a columnist for Variety
magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, but is chiefly remembered today for his 1950
book Behind the Flying Saucers, in which he claimed that four flying
saucers had crashed in New Mexico, including one - possibly the most famous of
the four - that crashed in New Mexico in 1948. The magazine True
reported in 1952 that two of the scientists that Scully used as sources - Silas
Newton and "Dr. Gee", identified as Leo GeBauer - were actually con men who
claimed to have created a device for finding gold and oil that used UFO
technology. In rebuttal, Scully claimed that Dr. Gee was actually a composite of
many sources familiar with the Aztec, New Mexico crash and reiterated his belief
in the incident's veracity in his 1963 book Armour Bright. He also
authored the somewhat less controversial book Fun in Bed - about keeping
yourself amused during convalescence and not what you think - and numerous
sequels. Lightly toned and creased. Missing corners. Light tears in all edges.
Folded thrice and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.
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