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A Decade of Delights
With this post (No. 413), we mark the tenth anniversary of The New Yorker. Since I began A New Yorker State of Mind in March 2015, I’ve attempted to give you at least a sense of what the magazine was like in those first years, as well as the historical events that often informed its editorial content as well as its famed cartoons. Those times also informed the advertisements; indeed, in some…
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#Claudette Colbert#Constantin Alajalov#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#E.B. White#Ervine Metzl#Garrett Price#George Petty#George Price#Gilbert Bundy#Helen Hokinson#Howard Baer#James Thurber#John Mosher#Leslie Howard#Otto Soglow#Peter Arno#Rea Irvin#Robert Day#The Gilded Lily 1935#The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934#William Cotton
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Legitimate Nonchalance
Above: W.C. Fields was a well-known juggler and vaudeville performer decades before he became even more famous in the movies of the 1930s.
William Claude Dukenfield was a vaudeville juggler who distinguished himself from other “tramp acts” by adding sarcastic asides to his routines. Internationally known for his juggling skills, by the turn of the century the man who billed himself as “The…
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#Al Frueh#Alva Johnston#Barbara Shermund#Beatrice Lillie#Bonnie and Clyde death car#Gardner Rea#Helen Hokinson#James Thurber#Janet Flanner#Lois Long#Otto Soglow#Peter Arno#Roger Duvoisin#Saar plebiscite#W.C. Fields#Whitney Darrow Jr
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Mary Quite Contrary
Above: Illustration and article on "Typhoid Mary" that appeared in 1909 in The New York American. At right, Mary Mallon with other quarantined inmates on North Brother Island. (Wikipedia)
The Irish-born Mary Mallon (1869–1938) lived a simple life as a maid and a cook, and it would have been a life of anonymity save for a sad twist of fate on the day she was born.
Jan. 26, 1935 cover by Perry…
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#Alan Dunn#Barbara Shermund#Bruno Hauptmann#George Petty#George Price#James Thurber#Mary Mallon#Morris Markey#Perry Barlow#Robert Day#Stanley Walker#Typhoid Mary
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Everything's Jake
Lois Long employed the Prohibition-era slang term “Everything’s Jake” (“it’s all good”) to headline her latest installment of “Tables for Two.” If you’ve been following the exploits of our nightlife correspondent in this blog, you might recall that for a time in the early thirties she found the New York club scene lackluster, without the daring and grit of the speakeasy era. Lately, however, she…
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#Barbara Shermund#Citroen 1935#Constantin Alajalov#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#French Casino New York#George Price#Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt#James Thurber#Janet Flanner#Lois Long#Mary Petty#New York Nightlife 1930s#Peter Arno
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It's a Gift
Above: Charles Sellen as Mr. Muckle and W.C. Fields as shopkeeper Harold Bissonette in the 1934 film It's a Gift.
Rea Irvin featured the New York Auto Show on the cover of Jan. 12, 1935 issue—the extravaganza of cars at the Grand Central Palace was one place New Yorkers could go to chase away the winter blues. The other was at one of the city’s RKO theatres, where a classic W.C. Fields comedy was…
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Easy Riders
Above: Manhattan auto dealer's window display promoting the 1935 Auburn's appearance at the New York Automobile Show. (Detroit Public Library)
Manhattan’s first big event of 1935 was the annual automobile show at the Grand Central Palace, where New Yorkers chased away the winter blues (and the lingering Depression) in a dreamscape crammed with gleaming new cars.
January 5, 1935 cover by Rea…
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Farewell to 1934
Above: Ringing in the New Year at Times Square, 1934.
We bid adieu to 1934 with some odds and ends, beginning with E.B. White’s observations for the upcoming year, which if anyone had noticed the uptick in Ascot tie purchases, just might be a bit rosier than previous years of the decade.
Dec. 29, 1934 cover by S. Liam Dunn.
White was also hopeful for a new year with a less dreadful press,…
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#Bright Eyes 1934#Clarence Day#E.B. White#Gardner Rea#Garrett Price#George Price#Helen Hokinson#James Thurber#John Mosher#Katharine Cornell#Katharine Hepburn#Lois Long#Miss Otis Regrets#Robert Benchley#Robert Day#Romeo and Juliet 1934#S. Liam Dunne#Sally Rand#Shirley Temple#The Little Minister 1934#The Stork Club
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Music in the Air
Above: The Cat and the Fiddle (Pete Gordon) and Mickey Mouse (a monkey in a very creepy costume) were featured in 1934's Babes In Toyland.
We close out the old year and ring in the new with a bit of song and dance from three musicals that entertained New Yorkers in the waning days of 1934.
Dec. 22, 1934 cover by Arnold Hall.
The work of composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II were…
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#Alfred Stieglitz#Arnold Hall#Babes in Toyland 1934#Barbara Hutton#Barbara Shermund#Buck Rogers#Carl Rose#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#Dionne Quintuplets#E.B. White#Ed Sullivan#James Thurber#John Mosher#Lewis Mumford#Music in the Air 1934#Perry Barlow#Sweet Adeline 1934
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An Industrial Classicist
Above: Walter Dorwin Teague's design for Kodak's "Brownie" camera, circa 1930. (Milwaukee Art Museum)
Walter Dorwin Teague pioneered industrial design as a profession, firmly believing that great, heirloom-quality design could be available to all, and that even mass-produced objects could be beautiful if they possessed “visible rightness.”
Dec. 15, 1934 cover by William Cotton.
Cultural critic…
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#Abe Birnbaum#Barbara Shermund#Christmas 1934#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#Douglas Fairbanks Sr#George Price#Gilbert Seldes#Jack Markow#James Thurber#John Mosher#Lewis Mumford#The Private Life of Don Juan#Walter Dorwin Teague#William Cotton#William Crawford Galbraith
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Al's Menagerie
Above: The Dec. 2, 1934 opening of the reconstructed Central Park Menagerie drew such luminaries as Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, pictured at left with his family, and, at right, former New York Governor Al Smith, who was designated honorary zookeeper. Smith, who, lived across from the zoo at 820 Fifth Avenue, poses with two donkeys at the Menagerie in 1940. (New York Parks Archive)
The Central Park…
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#Al Smith#Alan Dunn#Carl Rose#Central Park Menagerie#Central Park Zoo 1930s#Charlotte Young Salisbury#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#George Price#James Thurber#Julian de Miskey#Leonard Dove#Peter Arno#Price#Rea Irvin#Richard Decker
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Portraits and Prayers
Above, left, a 1935 portrait of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten; right, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas arriving in New York aboard the French Line’s SS Champlain in 1934. (Library of Congress/AP)
Much of America’s literary world was abuzz about the arrival of Gertrude Stein in New York after her nearly three-decade absence from the States. Audiences were mostly receptive to Stein’s…
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#Alberta Williams#Barbara Shermund#Clifton Fadiman#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#E.B. White#Eve Symington#Fred Astaire#Gardner Rea#Garrett Price#George Price#Gertrude Stein#Ginger Rogers#John Mosher#Kewpie doll#Knickerbocker Village#Leonard Dove#Lois Long#Louise Brooks#Mary Petty#Otto Soglow#Peggy Bacon#Peter Arno#Rea Irvin#Robert Day#Rose O&039;Neill#Stuart Hay#The Gay Divorcee#William Cotton
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The Wahoo Boy
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979) was an unlikely Hollywood mogul. Born in a small Nebraska town with an unusual name (both his and the town), Zanuck dropped out of school in the eighth grade, apparently bitten by the acting bug during a brief childhood sojourn in Los Angeles.
Nov. 10, 1934 cover by Constantin Alajalov.
In the first part of a two-part profile, Alva Johnston began to probe the mystery…
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#Alexander I of Yugoslavia#Alva Johnston#Constantin Alajalov#Darryl F. Zanuck#Gardner Rea#George Price#George Shellhase#Gregory d’Alessio#James Thurber#Janet Flanner#Louis Barthou#Morris Markey#Triborough Bridge#Wahoo Nebraska#William Crawford Galbraith
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House & Home
The New Yorker’s art and architectural critic Lewis Mumford found much to dislike about urban life, from pretentious ornamentation to the gigantic scale of skyscrapers popping up all over Manhattan. Technology and progress were fine, but when coupled with unbridled capitalism, Mumford believed they created inhuman environments in which the average citizen struggled to survive, let alone…
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#Carol Aronovici#Constantin Alajalov#Garrett Price#George Price#James Thurber#Lewis Mumford#Lyse Darcy#Mimi Richardson#Peter Arno#Richard Decker#William Steig#Xenia Georgievna
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The Age of Giants
Otto Klemperer rehearsing at the Hollywood Bowl in September 1937. (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
The 20th century was an age of big personalities in classical music, among them Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), a German-born protégé of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. Klemperer was already an established conductor in opera houses around Germany when the rise of the Nazis prompted the maestro to…
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#A Lost Lady 1934#Alan Dunn#Barbara Shermund#Bruno Hauptmann#Constantin Alajalov#E.B. White#George Price#Helen Hokinson#Isadore Klein#Jack Markow#James Thurber#John Mosher#Lewis Mumford#Lindbergh kidnapping#Miguel Covarrubias#Morris Markey#Otto Klemperer#Peter Arno#Rainbow Room#The Dakota New York#Werner Klemperer
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Bojangles
Above: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson demonstrating his famous stair dance, which involved a different rhythm and pitch for each step. At left, Robinson in Broadway's Blackbirds of 1928; at right, publicity photo circa 1920s. (Vandamm collection, New York Public Library/bet.com)
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (1878–1949) is considered one of the greatest tap dancers of all time, introducing a style of…
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#1930s cigarette ads#Bill "Bojangles" Robinson#Caravan 1934#Carl Rose#Charles Alston#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#Garrett Price#George Price#James Thurber#Mary Petty#Otto Soglow#Peter Arno#St. Clair McElway#The Barretts of Wimple Street
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Reel News
Above: Newsreel cameramen perch on boards resting on a windowsill to get a birds-eye view of a passing parade, circa 1930. (Public Domain Image)
We marvel at, and sometimes decry, today’s instantaneous news coverage of wars, disasters and the like, but ninety years ago newsreel crews did a remarkable job of filming and delivering the latest news to thousands of theaters across the U.S. and around…
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The Wonderful Saloon
McSorley’s Old Ale House is probably best known to New Yorker readers through the work of Joseph Mitchell, who was noted for his distinctive character studies in The New Yorker and who in 1943 published McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, which was later included in a 1992 collection of Mitchell’s works, Up In the Old Hotel.
Sept. 15, 1934 cover by Rea Irvin.
Among New York’s oldest saloons, McSorley’s…
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#Bing Crosby#Carlo Tresca#Gardner Rea#Garrett Price#Gilbert Bundy#Lescaze House#Lewis Mumford#Max Eastman#McSorley&039;s Old Ale House#Perry Barlow#Peter Arno#Raymond Holden#William Lescaze#William Steig
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