Art: Peter B. Kyne He Talks to Rotarians

Peter Bernard Kyne was born in California, but that has not kept him from showing in much of his talk and especially in his bright gray eyes that he is chiefly Celt. His stories of personal experience are many of them quite as dramatic as his novels—that's a gift these Irishmen have! Mr. Kyne wrote his first story at 13, was a soldier in the Spanish War, engaged in the lumber business and failed at it, tried to start a newspaper and failed at it, then turned to writing and has been more successful...

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