Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1918 — OFFERS POURING IN TO LIEUT. PAT O’BRIEN [ARTICLE]

OFFERS POURING IN TO LIEUT. PAT O’BRIEN

At his home in Momence, Lieut-* enant Pat O’Brien is reclining in a big easy archair and smiling broadly these days. And there is considerable reason too why the Momence youth should feel joyful. Internationa] fame is already his and fortune is within his grasp, for he is soon to be the possessor of more money than he thought there was on earth during his barefoot days on the Kankakee. Pat is going to commercialize his seventy-two days of thrilling experiences in the enemy country, during which time he dodged Hun guards, swam rivers and subsisted on sugar beets, at the request of the American public.

Rumor has it that the daring Aviator has received an offer of $25,000 from a Chicago theatrical man to make twenty-five lectures in the big city; another that a Philadelphia newspaper has made him an offer of SIO,OOO for the exclusive right to his story and still another to the effect that the Essanay moving picture people have made him a flattering offer to appear in a number of sketches for them. It is understool that Lieutenant O’Brien will accept the first named offer. However, it is probable that he will consider the other offers. Mr. O’Brien expects to have his book, which he is now writing, on sale in Marell. He expects to realize an immense sum from its sale. The book, it is said, will contain many secrets of his experiences that as yet have not been bared by him from the stage. Following the completion of his book, it is thought he will accept a number of offers from theatrical concerns from which he will reap handsome financial returns.