Show POETRY PROVES TO BE POPULAR Works of Columnists Arc rc Among Best Sellers CHICAGO Mr Mar Mar-By M r Dy 21 27 By The AssocIated ThO Press Press The ancIent indent complaint of that th t po- po po poetry etry etry elry does doc not sell moll baa hae ha been dis- dis credited hero her by some ome rec recent t re- re bl sales Mica records i i Publishers booksellers and lit lit lit- literary Ury critics have hll hav watched with amazement as several se late lat vol- vol vol ume umea of o verse ver base bar over the th counter with the of a best selling novel irvel Edition Editions have been sold old overnIght or even en before publication publication cation and In one on Instance a book containing both poetry and prose prelles prose presses for time were ere unable to carry the th load placed upon them Most of these thes statistics have hiv been t-een trIbutes tribute to the th popular ap appeal peal peat of newspaper columns in which many of the th collected collected cues appeared A few years ears ago the name nam of J U was Wal unknown to the literary world orld So far as aj hIs frIends and associate associates knew his interest was as wrapped rapped up In the storage business Then one on day daya daya a poem signed with the th intriguing pseudonym Th rhe he KIng Kint of ot the In The TheLIne TheLine Black Isles appeared LIne 0 Type of ot the tb Chicago Trib TrIb- TrIbune Trib- Trib Tribune Tribune une That poem po m a lyric In the th melodious manner of the th Swin- Swin school attracted considerable considerable con- con attention Soon other othera of t the th same aim type and bearing the tham In that same signature appeared and other newspaper columns column I Presently It was WS announced that The KIng Icing of the Black Isles I nas as J IA u U and that a volume of his verse vers was to ap- ap appeal appear ap appear pear peal with his pen name namo nam as title The publisher hesitatingly print prInt- prInted printed printed ed a modest edition It did not last lut long The Th volume Is now in Its tenth prInting A few months month ago co another In- In Interesting interesting tn poetic record was made Some years ears ago o when the late Bert Hert Leston Taylor was piloting the th Line he h printed a number of poem In German American German I dIalect signed by K M lor s S Except ex- ex Ex Except for tor an Interval during the i war these thes poems continued to ap- ap ap In various arlous columns and ft- ft ti-nally ti nail were gathered In a book 1 Dle le Lenge The Theauthor Theauthor author w was as ae Kurt M Stein A A II cautious edition Of o 00 copies was wasI put out It Is pow now ow In n Its It eight eight- eighteenth eighteenth thousand I I Another more mor modest record has just been made hut tor for po- po poetry po poetry etry It Is not without interest Another popular contributor to Chicago o newspaper columns was wasI The Phantom Lover Along I about St SI Valentines Valentine's day the th au- au author author au author thor Henry V Stevenson gathered gath- gath fathered ered Hed his verses In la a book with The Phantom Lover Lo as a the title Three editions of a thousand each were sent to press In a few few- days day But probably the th most remark remark- remarkable remarkable remark remark-abl able reco record of all aU was established by The Th Line Book made mad up of contrIbutions of poetry and prose to the Line Lin 0 Type Eleven en thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand copies cople of the 19 1925 edition were printed as a starter and be- be before fr bc-fr tore fore nightfall of the th day they w wire re placed on sale the th edition was as exhausted Sales now are well past the th mark mirk and steadily climbIng |