Opening of the book
FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN AS JOHN D. CURTIS. BEVERLY BAYNE AS
LADY HERMIONE.
[Frontispiece: FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN AS JOHN D.
CURTIS.
BEVERLY BAYNE AS LADY HERMIONE.]
ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT
A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK
BY
LOUIS TRACY
AUTHOR OF
MIRABEL'S ISLAND, THE WINGS OF THE MORNING, ETC.
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
EDWARD J. CLODE
A FOREWORD
Moving picture enthusiasts who reveled in the romantic mysteries that tangled the plot of ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT will find even more pleasure in reading this fascinating story.
"THE LADIES' WORLD" contest—the greatest in the history of motion pictures—has just come to a close. Under the auspices of the
"Ladies'
World"
with
its
million
circulation monthly, moving picture lovers all over the
United
States
have
been
voting
for
the
actor
to
impersonate the heroic part of John Delancy Curtis in the photo-play of ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT—probably the most interesting and absorbing presentation ever made on the screen.
Five million, four hundred and forty-thousand, sevenhundred and sixty votes were cast. Francis Bushman won the prize. With a vote of 1,806,630 he was chosen the typical
American
hero.
In
the
Essanay
Company's
elaborate
production of ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT, Mr. Bushman is
supported by a strong cast, including beautiful Beverly
Bayne as Lady Hermione.
Those who have witnessed the photo-play production will find the book even more intensely interesting. The hero,
John Delancy Curtis, drops in from Pekin, China, for a brief rest from strenuous engineering work, and on his first night in New York finds a marriage license in the pocket of a murdered man's coat, rushes off in a taxi to the address of the woman named therein, marries her, punches a frantic rival on the nose, flouts her father (an
English baronet), takes the fair one to a hotel, holds a banquet at which the Chief of Police of New York is an honored guest, and sits down to gaze contentedly into the
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