ORIGINAL SCRIPTS
WANTED
for a popular theatre
opening this fall in Chic:ago
REQUIREMENTS:
strong, simple
story line, 60 to 90 minute length,
popular subjec:ts, e.g.: dynamic:
routines of urban life, Americ:an
heroes and fools abroad, history
of this c:ontinent's c:onquest, life
stories of politic:ians, sc:ientists,
generals.
NOT WANTED: psyc:hologic:al or
thesis plays. Only stories told ac:–
tively, objec:tively, c:lassic:ly enough
to outsmart the movies.
PLAYWRIGHT'S ROYALTY: 10%
of the gross (admissions plus bar)
or approx. $150 a week, $350 for
a hit.
Write
THE COMPASS
Box 7012, Chic:ago
CLOSING
February 28, 1955
THE NEW
LIPPINCOTT
Fiction Prize
Contest
for Young Novelists
1954-1955
To encourage the development of a new
&,eneration of American creative writers
J.
B. Lippincott Company is sponsoring
Its Second Prize Contest for American
and Canadian novelists, either Dew
writers or authors previously published,
not over thi!_ty:five years of age.
Award : $2500. Submission may be
made on the basis of a minimum of
25,000 words, plus a full outline. The
judges are Diana Trilling, Jacques
Barzun and W. H. Auden.
For complete details
writ. to:
FICTION CONTEST EDITOR
J.
B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
East Washington Square
Phila. 5
Man Now
A BOOK OF POEMS
BY WILLIAM BURFORD
Forty poems selected from the first five years of William
Burford's work. Most of them tell stories-of going down a
river in Florida, walking along a canal in Amsterdam. Or they
tell the stories of various people: a cowboy, a Paris gamin, the
devil, who sits at the table with us.
". . . Virtually the only American poet of
his
generation, and the one who shows the most
promise of bringing poetry back to the tradition
of Robinson, Frost, and Hart Crane."
-KARL SHAPIRO
In his first book, William Burford establishes himself as
the most individual voice among the younger poets.
$2.50
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY PRESS: Dallas, Texas
