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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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A Tadpole on Wheels
Above: British architect Norman Foster's 2010 recreation of R. Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car. (Wikipedia) Despite the limitations of 1930s technology, a few architects and designers were hell-bent on building a streamlined future that until then was mostly the stuff of movies and science fiction magazines. May 5, 1934 cover by Rea Irvin. One of them was R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983),…
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The Bombshell
Much like Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s, Jean Harlow occupied a brief period in Hollywood history, but her star shone long after her untimely death. Oct. 28, 1933 cover by Rea Irvin. Adam Victor’s The Marilyn Encyclopedia draws all sorts of weird parallels between the actresses: both raised by strict Christian Scientists, both married three times, both left school at sixteen to marry their first…
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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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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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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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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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Dizzy Drinks
During the roughly thirteen years of Prohibition, many Americans had forgotten how to mix a decent cocktail; the concoctions they devised during those dry years were often created to mask the taste of bootleg liquor—sales of Coca-Cola steadily increased throughout the 1920s in part because it made ardent spirits such as rum and whisky a bit more palatable. August 18, 1934 cover by Ilonka…
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#Alan Dunn#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#Donald Barr Chidsey#end of prohibition#George Price#Ilonka Karasz#James Thurber#Peter Arno#Raeburn Van Buren#Rea Irvin#Robert Day#Schrafft&039;s#William Cotton
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Men of Mystery
Photo above circa 1930 via mensfashionmagazine.com. Lois Long took a break from reviewing the latest fashions to offer some thoughts on the relations between men and women, and more specifically, what was expected of women if they ever hoped to land the type of man who represented a “potential Future” for them. August 4, 1934 cover by Otmar. Likely Otmar Gaul, sometimes spelled “Ottmar.” Based on…
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#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#E.B. White#Howard Brubaker#Isadore Klein#Janet Flanner#KOOL cigarettes#Lois Long#Marie Curie#Otmar#Otmar Gaul#Otto Soglow#Richard Decker#Thalie Massie#Wendel Mansion#William Steig
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The Happy Warrior
Above: Al Smith waving to crowds on arrival at Chattanooga, Tennessee during his presidential campaign in 1928. (Museum of the City of New York) It’s hard to not like Al Smith, the governor of New York from 1923 to 1928, a man who avoided the temptations of political power and stayed true to his working class roots of the Lower East Side. July 14, 1934 cover by Rea Irvin. The son of Irish,…
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#Al Smith#Alva Johnston#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#Helen Hokinson#Howard Brubaker#Jack Curley#James Thurber#Lewisohn Stadium#Rea Irvin#Robert Day#Roerich museum#Wimbledon 1934
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Moses Parts a Yacht Club
Power broker Robert Moses always made sure he was few steps ahead of any possible opposition to his grand development plans in and around New York City. That included the yacht clubbers along the Hudson River, who were more or less erased from the scene by Moses in one fell swoop. May 19, 1934 cover by Ilonka Karasz. The Upper West Side’s Columbia Yacht Club probably thought it was just swell…
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#Columbia Yacht Club#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#E.B. White#Herbert Roese#Hudson River Yacht Club#Ilonka Karasz#James Thurber#John Held Jr.#John Mosher#Leni Riefenstahl#Mary Petty#Otto Soglow#Richard Decker#Robert Moses#The Blue Light 1934#William Crawford Galbraith
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America's Sweetheart
Above: A scene from Mary Pickford’s 1922 film Tess of the Storm Country. (Library of Congress) In today’s celebrity-saturated culture it is difficult to find a parallel to silent film star Mary Pickford, who was dubbed Queen of the Movies more than a century ago. Indeed, during the 1910s and 1920s Pickford was regarded as the most famous woman in the world. April 7, 1934 cover by Rea…
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Art of the Machine
Above, at left, self-aligning ball bearing from SKF Industries, featured in MoMA's 1934 Exhibition of Machine Art; at right, judges for the exhibit were aviator Amelia Earhart and professors John Dewey and Charles R. Richards, holding first, second and third prizes, respectively. (MoMA) The notion that machine-made objects have aesthetic value has been with us for some time, dating back to…
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#Al Frueh#Barbara Shermund#Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein#Eleanor Katherine Roosevelt#Gregory d’Alessio#James Thurber#Langston Hughes#Machine Art 1934#Mary Petty#Museum of Modern Art#Oscar of the Waldorf#Oscar Tschirky#Peter Arno#Rea Irvin#Robert M. Coates
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The Power Broker
Above: Robert Moses in 1939 with a model of his proposed Battery Bridge Park Reconstruction; at right, 1934 Bryant Park renovation, view to the south on 6th Avenue from 42nd Street. (Wikipedia/NYC Parks Department) The title for this entry comes from Robert Caro’s landmark 1974 biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, which questioned the benefit of…
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