"How I did it," ([c1922])

Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
00086
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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Mostly About Ideas except once a year, during the Feast of Ram- azan. When I questioned him further, he smiled and jokingly informed me that they didn't know how to pray. I remembered that little incident and vowed that some day I would use it as the basis of a story. Six years later I wrote it and sold it to the Universal Film Company. It was called "The Virgin of Stamboul" and Priscilla Dean appeared in the leading role. The story was written around a girl named "Sari," whose soul was supposed to be "as filth in the streets of Stamboul." She overhears an Englishman tell an American the reason a Turkish girl is not permitted in a mosque. Her curiosity is aroused and she succeeds in getting into the mosque for the purpose of learning how to pray. What she sees there furnishes enough plot to keep the story moving for some time. Nearly every situation was inspired by the customs of the Turkish people and I was thus aided in my effort to put some tense drama 61