Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

1920

1. Green Book (January, 1920)   "Without a Clue"   A Jane Sprood story. p 76-79+.  [HARPER]
2. Collier's (January 17, 1920)   "Potting Marjatta"   Illustrated by Tony Sarg.  [RGTPL]
3. Association Men (February, 1920)   "Comrades in Bibberville"    [HARPER]
4. Black Cat (February, 1920)   "Amos Hopstone"   ???  [HARPER, PULP]
5. McClure's Magazine (February, 1920)   "Joseph Mghkzt!"   A story. Illustrations by Charles D. Mitchell. p 26-27, 39-45.  [HARPER]

	Red Cross Magazine February, 1920 Click for larger image

6. Red Cross Magazine (February, 1920)   "Billy Brad's Bank Book" A Billy Brad story. Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Also reprinted as a promotional booklet by the Malden Savings Bank. p 53-56.  [HARPER]
7. Washington Post (February 22, 1920)   "A Man Gets What's Coming to Him"   A story. "Wads of money and a Beautiful Girl -- What Would You Have Done?" p 71.  [WASHPOST]
8. Judge (February 28, 1920)   "The Log of a Lost Soul" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" and the title of the story appear on the cover. "Found in a Whisky Bottle Floating Outside the Three Mile Limit on January 16th Last." p 5-7.  [EPBLIB]
9. American Magazine (March, 1920)   "I Wish I Had Not Been a Well-Frog"   An essay.  [RGTPL]
10. Pictorial Review (March, 1920)   "Criminals Three"   A story. "Professor Blossom's Search for Knowledge Gets Him into a Tight Corner" Illustrations by Rodney Thomson. p 16, 119-122.  [HARPER]
11. Red Cross Magazine (March, 1920)   "Billy Brad, the Free and Equal" A Billy Brad story. "Even at the age of six -- he encounters some of the laws of democracy." Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 51-53, 78.  [HARPER]
12. Los Angeles Evening Herald (March 9, 1920)   "Ten Humor Rules Given by Author of 'Pigs is Pigs'"   Written by Adela Rogers St. John (b. 1894, d. 1988). Includes a photo of the author (the same photo as printed in July 1925 issue of Sunset Magazine) and a photo of the elder Butler with his son Ellis Olmsted (called "Ellis, Jr." in the caption). The similarly named article in Photoplay Magazine reprints major portions of this article. Ms. St. John was acting as publicist for King Vidor's film company (First National Pictures), which made the motion picture version of "Jack-Knife Man" this same year. Page 1 of Section 2.  [EPBLIB, HARPER]
13. American Magazine (April, 1920)   "How's Your Climate? Have You Got It With You?"    [RGTPL]
14. Bookman (April, 1920)   "The New Poet of Nature"   A story.  [RGTPL]

	Red Cross Magazine April, 1920 Click for larger image

15. Red Cross Magazine (April, 1920)   "Billy Brad and Everybody Else" A Billy Brad story. "Do you think you can live without the rest of the world? Billy Brad thought so. He is only six but his story has a message for you. Like Billy Brad you can learn not to overlook what your fellow man is doing for you daily." Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 57-59.  [HARPER]
16. Judge (April 17, 1920)   "The Man from '20" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover.  [HARPER]
17. American Magazine (May, 1920)   "Back to the Old Home Town"   An essay. "The jolts and the joys you get when you make the trip." Illustrated by Tony Sarg.  [RGTPL]
18. Boys' Life (May, 1920)   "Dey Ain't No Ghosts"   A story. One illustration by Frank Rigney. p 14, 65-66.  [HARPER]
19. Red Cross Magazine (May, 1920)   "Billy Brad Meets Rent and Taxes" A Billy Brad story. "Ellis Parker Butler knows children and has a rare faculty of making things simple. He has made these Billy Brad stories so amusing and yet so instructive that they are being used in the schools. We are fortunate to have such a writer among our contributors." Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 59-61.  [HARPER]
20. Judge (May 15, 1920)   "Uncle Rodney's Moonshine Tobacco" A story. The phrase "Another Ellis Parker Butler Story" appears on the cover. p 5-7.  [HARPER]
21. American Magazine (June, 1920)   "How Much Time Do You Spend Turning Over Ducks?"   An essay. "Is There Such a Thing As Being Too Nice to Bores?" p 68-9, 182-87.  [RGTPL]

	Judge May 15, 1920 Click for larger image

22. Woman's Home Companion (June, 1920)   "A Letter to Miss Douglas"   A story. "An amusing mixture of temper and tantrums, antiques and antics, letters and love." Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. p 14-15, 64.  [RGTPL]
23. Judge (June 19, 1920)   "Prohibiting the Movies, or the 87th Amendment" A story. p 5-7.  [MISC]
24. Washington Post (June 20, 1920)   "Movies Is Movies"   "A few days ago, writes Ellis Parker Butler, the author of 'Pigs Is Pigs,' in the July Photoplay, a producer bought the motion picture rights of one of my novels -- the one called 'The Jack Knife Man' -- and paid $13,000 for it, all in real money. pg. 5, 1 pgs.  [WASHPOST]
25. Photoplay Magazine (July, 1920)   "Movies Is Movies" An essay. Illustrations by R. F. James. "A brilliant satire on motion pictures." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 56-7, 122.  [HARPER]
26. Red Cross Magazine (July, 1920)   "Billy Brad Discovers Capital"   A Billy Brad story. Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. "Although a small boy, Billy Brad represents the eternal question mark. He wants to know; he is a little explorer in the world. His experiences and his questions touch many things. In this adventure he finds the great idea, Capital, and with the help of his Uncle Peter begins to understand something of its meaning. Whether you are young or old, you will get enlightenment and possibly information from Butler's wise and humorous sketch." p 63-65.  [HARPER]
27. Black Cat (August, 1920)   "The Great Detective"    [HARPER, PULP]
28. Red Cross Magazine (August, 1920)   "Billy Brad and the Middleman" A Billy Brad story. Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 63-65, 78. "There is more than a touch of universal human nature in this whimsically wise tale of Billy Brad and his rows and rows of corn just waiting to be eaten. If you don't sympathize with Billy Brad, indeed, and his desire for dozens and dozens of Mammas, we miss our guess. Beneath Mr. Butler's entertaining story, however, lies a clear and simply reasoned explanation of fundamental economics that goes far deeper than the amused reader will at first suspect. Middleman baiters, especially, will find much food for thought in Uncle Peter Henry's remarks about Mr. Jones, the grocer."  [HARPER]
29. Judge (August 7, 1920)   "Freedom from the Press" A story. The phrase "Another 'Man from '20' story by the author of 'Pigs Is Pigs'" appears on the cover. p 5-7.  [EPBLIB]

	Judge August 14, 1920 Click for larger image

30. _____ (August 14, 1920)   "The Role of the Doldrums" A story. The phrase "The Role of the Doldrums by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 5-7.  [HARPER, MISC]
31. MOTION PICTURE: The Jack-Knife Man (August 16, 1920)   First National. Director: King Vidor. Performers: Fred A. Turner, Bobby Kelso, Harry Todd, Willie Marks, Lillian Leighton, James Corrigan. See IMDB. "One of King Vidor's early directorial efforts and one that will have you hooked from the very beginning. A lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man carves many toys from wood for the boy and they grow to love one another. The village snoop feels the child would be better off in an orphanage rather than living on the river and the sheriff is sent to try to take the child away." Available on VHS tape from Grapevine Video; PO Box 46161; Phoenix AZ 85063. Produced by King Vidor Productions. Distributed by First National Exhibitors Circuit, Inc. Released on August 16, 1920. The exterior scenes were shot around the river district of Stockton, CA., and in the mining town of Murphy, CA., as well as in Muscatine, IA, where Butler's novel is set. See The Jack Knife Man on moviegallery.com.  [IMDB, WEB]
32. Everybody's Magazine (September, 1920)   "A Jury of His Peers"   A Billy Brad story. Illustrated by Joseph Bolegard. Volume XLIII. Number 3. p 42-45.  [RGTPL]
33. Red Cross Magazine (September, 1920)   "Billy Brad and His Lease" A Billy Brad story. "People other than youthful Billy Brad have been mystified by the intricacies of the lease question. In this story, Mr. Butler, in the genial form of Uncle Peter Henry, answers not only Billy Brad's doubts, but turns his wise and humorous searchlight on some things which all of us will be the better for recalling." Illustrated by J. R. Shaver. p 62-64, 72.  [HARPER]
34. Judge (September 4, 1920)   "Review" By Myron M. Stearns ("Lenso"). A review of the King Vidor movie made from Butler's book The Jack-Knife Man.  [EPBLIB]
35. _____ (October 23, 1920)   "A Pastoral" A poem in 24 verses. Not listed in HARPER. p 28.  [EPBLIB]
36. Photoplay Magazine (November, 1920)   "Ten Rules for Humor" An article with an Ellis Parker Butler byline, written almost exclusively with quotes from Butler, but written with Butler in the third person. This article is a rewrite/reprint of the similarly named article in the Los Angeles Evening Herald. p 107, 123.  [EPBLIB]

	Judge November 6, 1920 Click for larger image

37. Judge (November 6, 1920)   "A Miserable Business" A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p5-6.  [EPBLIB]
38. _____ (November 13, 1920)   "Ads Is Ads" Butler's original title for this story was "Stronger Than Death." The phrase "Ads is Ads by the Author of Pigs Is Pigs" appears on the cover. p 5-7.  [HARPER]
39. _____ (November 27, 1920)   "Speaking of Operations" A poem. "Respectfully dedicated to Irv Cobb." p 7.  [HARPER]
40. _____ (December 4, 1920)   "The Last Quart" A story. "A Christmas Tale Dedicated to the Once Flowing Bowl." p 5-7.  [HARPER]
41. BOOK: How It Feels to be Fifty (1920) Short essay on reaching fifty years of age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  [EPBLIB]
42. BOOK: Millingham's Cat-Fooler (1920) A story. Printed to promote a hose manufacturer's business. "We have printed Mr. Butler's story in this convenient edition for all commuters and other gardeners whether they are buyers or lenders of hose. Draw from this tale whatever lesson you choose. 'Don't borrow garden hose of your neighbors; buy a hose for yourself.' 'Don't try to deceive your friends; you will always get found out.' 'Don't make the mistake of thinking all garden hose is alike.'" Cambridge MA: Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company.  [EPBLIB]
43. ANTHOLOGY: Modern Literature for Oral Interpretation (1920) "Where There's A Will"   By Gertrude E. Johnson. "Practice Book for Vocal Expression." Reprinted from Lippincott's. p 159-168.  [GOOGLE BOOKS]

	Millingham's Cat-Fooler 1920 Click for larger image

44. BOOK: Swatty, a Story of Real Boys (1920)   Fourteen stories. Illustrations by W. B. King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  [EPBLIB]
45. ANTHOLOGY: The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) "The Secret Combination"   Edited by Carolyn Wells. p 210-10. Revised editions were printed in 1934 (p 209) and 1947. New York: George H. Doran.  [HARPER, ROTH]

1920?

46. BOOK: Billy Brad's Bank Book (1920?)   A reprint of the story printed in the February 1920 issue of Red Cross magazine. Printed as a promotional booklet by the Malden Savings Bank.  [HARPER]
47. BOOK: I Wish I Had Not Been a Well-Frog (1920?)   Reprinted from the March 1920 issue of the American Magazine. Chicago: Harris Trust & Savings Bank. pp 20.  [HARPER, WORLDCAT]

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