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| Motion Picture News, 07-May-1921 |
San Francisco writer, poet and prankster Gelett Burgess was born in Boston on 30-January-1866. His most famous composition was "The Purple Cow":
I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one!
He and his friends dumped a pro-prohibition statue into the bay. He published a literary magazine, The Lark. He wrote "The Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip." Read it or listen to it on my cable car site:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/cchsg.html#top
The Heart Line was based on his 1907 novel about fraudulent spiritualists in San Francisco. I have not read the book, but many people did not like it.
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