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Joinery Manufacture in Stoke On Trent
Browse Joinery Manufacture in Stoke On Trent featuring photos, videos, special offers and testimonials to help you choose the right local Joinery Manufacture for you.
W & L JOINERY
Brick Kiln Lane, Stoke on Trent, ST4 7BP
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SPH Joinery
67 Field Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 7AN
P.D.R Joinery
Montrose Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 3PB
Woodtech Joinery
Unit 26 Hobart Street, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST6 2AH
Strata Joinery Centre
Unit 1 Britannia Park Industrial, North Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 2PZ
Snow Hill Joinery
3 Cutts Street, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST1 4LX
Oaktree Joinery
Unit 42 Newfields Industrial Estate, High Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 5PD
Woodhouse Joinery
Unit B New Parkhall Industrial Estate, Parkhall Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 5AT
Lymewood Architectural Joinery
Hawthorne Mill, Leek Road, Longsdon, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST9 9QF
S D M Joinery
Prospect Works, Prospect Road, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 5BX
All types of joinery undertaken, manufacture of windows, doors, stairs and full installation service....
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J B Joinery S O T Ltd
Unit 4 Aitken Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 3RG
Stoak Joinery
36 James Street, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 5HD
LT Joinery
20 Coseley St, Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 1JX
A small family business specialising in most home improvements including, joinery, windows, doors, conservatories, plastering,...
Cornerstone Joinery
Unit 11-12 Summit Business Park, Lingard Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 1ED
GCG Joinery Ltd
Ladderedge, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 7AG
I am a specialist in all aspects of carpentry and building, and have been established for over 25 years. I am an apprentice-served...
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Thomas Joinery
366 Ford Green Road, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST6 8LY
Jimmy's Joinery
8 Hope Street, Bignall End, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 8PX
Greenbirch Joinery
Unit 1 Greenbirches Industrial Estate, High Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 5US
Chippytab Joinery
27 Oswald Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 5HP
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P J Yates Joinery Services
6 Springbank Avenue, Endon, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST9 9EL
P A T Joinery Ltd
195 Birches Head Road, Birches Head, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST1 6ND
P W Joinery
2 Hazlitt Way, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 5SZ
Two Bee's Joinery
Unit 3 Minkstone Works, Normacot Road, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST3 1PR
S P H Joinery
67 Field Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 7AN
N McNulty Joinery
31 Leicester Avenue, Alsager, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST7 2BS
Totallywood joinery
386 old road, Barlaston, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, St12 9ew
J B S Joinery Ltd
Unit 83 Ballington Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 8ED
Pavilion Windows & Joinery
21 May Street, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, ST5 6LZ
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A L M Joinery
113 Eaveswood Road, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8EP
Brian Stevenson Building & Joinery
18 Rookery Crescent, Cresswell, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST11 9RA
K S B Woodcraft Ltd
Unit 2 Hillside Industrial Park, Draycott Cross Road, Cheadle, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, ST10 1PN
Joinery Manufacturers ... Specialising in Sliding Sash Windows, but we manufacture all joinery products. Doors, windows, Gates,...
Nick McNulty Joinery Ltd
1 Back Lane, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire, ST7 2FS
Coat Hooks R Us
Unit 10, Norton Ind Est, Bellerton Lane, Stoke-On-Trent, ST6 8ED
Sfd Group Limited
Unit 2 Scotia Road, Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, North West, ST6 4EP
Lmj Joinery
23, Trentlea Way, Sandbach, CW11 3AY
Manor Windows
71 Manor Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 2PT
Charles Sage Images Joinery Services
Cranberry Moss Lane, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 2LD
O T M Tiling & Joinery
17 Mackenzie Crescent, Cheadle, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST10 1LU
W J L Contracts
Unit 1-2 Ormonde Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 3RR
A V C Staircase Specialists
Newfield Works, High Street, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 5PQ
China Topper Forged Valve Manufacturer Co., Ltd.
Festival Park, Marina Way, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 5PA, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5PA
Construction Card Manager Ltd
60 Blythe Avenue Meir Heath, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 7JX
Sacred Woodcraft
100 Congleton Rd, Stoke-On-Trent, ST8 6EG
P T J Joinery Services
5 John Street, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST8 6BB
L Jones Joinery Ltd
1 Brampton Sidings, Hempstalls Lane, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 0SW
M A Hallam
240 Beaconsfield Drive, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 3JD
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Linkcraft Joinery
Hose Street Works, Hose Street, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 5AL
Unit 11-12 Summit Business Park Lingard Street,Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 1ED
Howdens - Stoke-on-Trent
Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 3HX
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Leek Road A520 Cellarhead, Stoke-on-Trent ST9 0DG, United Kingdom, Stoke-on-Trent, ST9 0DG


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Home Crime Biggest Drug Bust in OPP History – 1062 kilos pure cocaine –...
Biggest Drug Bust in OPP History – 1062 kilos pure cocaine – Street Value = 250 Million
(ORILLIA, ON) Code named, Project HOPE, the OPP have made history in a massive haul of pure cocaine. The investigation intercepted an Intercontinental Drug Shipment.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has concluded an intercontinental investigation that has netted 1,062 kilograms of pure cocaine – the largest single drug seizure in OPP history.
At a news conference at OPP General Headquarters in Orillia, Commissioner J.V.N. (Vince) HAWKES, Deputy Commissioner Rick BARNUM and representatives from the project's partner agencies unveiled details of the investigation and the stack of the evidence seized. The wholesale value of this seizure is estimated to be worth $60 million while the eventual street value, once cut, is approximately $250 million.
Project HOPE was conducted by the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) and Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau (POIB) in partnership with Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Peel Regional Police, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
"The OPP recognize that illegal drugs cause grievous harm and threaten community safety. With the amount of pure cocaine seized during Project HOPE, we've stopped many criminals from causing more harm to our communities while removing a quarter of a billion dollars from the criminal economy." Stated Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner J.V.N. (Vince) HAWKES at a news conference Monday, August 28,2017.
During the course of the investigation, three individuals responsible for importing enormous quantities of cocaine from Argentina were identified and linked to cocaine transported on ocean-going vessels in shipping containers to the Port of Montreal for distribution in Ontario. Over the course of several months, the OPP worked with CBSA to identify the containers and locations. Subsequent investigation identified links to various caches of cocaine at a CBSA warehouse, at the Port of Montreal and in Stoney Creek, Ontario.
"FINTRAC is proud to have provided financial intelligence to assist in this investigation. By working together, we create a hostile environment for those who seek to threaten Canadians or abuse our financial system." Said Gérald Cossette, Director – Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.
While the investigation is ongoing, the following individuals are charged –
Luis Enrique KARIM-ALTAMIRANO, aged 52 years of Vaughan was charged on May 1, 2017 with
· Importation of a Controlled Substance Schedule 1 – Cocaine (Section 6(1) Controlled Drug and Substances Act (CDSA);
· Possession of a Controlled Schedule 1 Substance – Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking (Section 5(2) CDSA); and,
· Drive While Disqualified (Section 259(4) Criminal Code).
He remains in custody pending a bail hearing on August 30.
Mauricio Antonio MEDINA-GATICA, aged 36 years of Brampton was charged on May 1, 2017 with:
· Importation of a Controlled Substance Schedule 1 – Cocaine (Section 6(1) CDSA); and,
· Possession of a Controlled Substance Schedule 1 – Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking (Section 5(2) CDSA).
He has since been released on bail.
Iban OROZCO-LOMELI, aged 45 years of Toronto, was charged on July 10, 2017 with
· Possession of a Controlled Schedule 1 Substance – Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking (Section 5(2) CDSA).
The OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) is part of the OPP Investigations and Organized Crime Command, and is committed to the delivery of investigative excellence and community safety in support of front line OPP officers, the OPP's policing partners and justice sector stakeholders in order to disrupt criminal activities and enhance public safety.
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Well, here are just a fraction of the photos I took on our grand adventure this weekend. It was so much fun! I was just so happy that I took my camera with me so I could be the official photographer.
This is my absolute favorite picture of them all!
29 reasons I love My Love (sorry for those who don't do mushy, I am required to be mushy on his birthday).
There are more, but this will be the list for this year. The best thing is that I get to be with him forever! Jeff, I love you always!
Responsible for who I am today!
I love you Marme and I always will!


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Nvidia GeForce 358.50 WHQL game-ready driver for Star Wars Battlefront Open Beta download available now
By Rajesh V	 On Oct 8, 2015
It is from today at 1PM ET that will set the start of the open beta of Star Wars Battlefront for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The opportunity is now for Nvidia to unsheathe its last optimized graphics drivers. Nvidia knows that Star Wars Battlefront is eagerly awaited by the players, and as a result, the firm developed its new drivers by deploying Version 358.50 WHQL.
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The new drivers can be recovered directly in the Drivers portion of the GeForce Experience application, or directly to the manufacturer's website via this address.
Nvidia states that the update is resolutely oriented towards the title. However, the firm also said that only a GTX 970 would allow players to enjoy the game in 60 fps in Full HD 1080p with the details located on "average" in the "Walker assault" on 40 players. To take advantage of the most advanced details, it will be directed towards the most expensive, but also more powerful graphics card such as GTX 980 or 980Ti.
Suffice to say that many players with old graphics card and least powerful will make sacrifices on the display quality to play under in good conditions.
The beta of Star Wars Battlefront will open its doors from 1PM ET today and is expected to continue until 12 October. It is possible to pre-load the content (10 GB) via Origin.
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The scheme is all about transferring trillions of dollars more wealth from ordinary Americans to super-rich ones than already.
It'll add $10 trillion dollars to the national debt by 2027 in a recession-free environment for the next decade, according to David Stockman, much more under long-overdue hard times during this period.
If enacted, it'll do nothing to stimulate economic growth and create jobs. Trump lied claiming otherwise.
Many US households would get nothing, others a tax increase, the plan rigged to benefit corporate giants and the nation's super-rich at the expense of most others.
"About 7 percent of households would pay higher income taxes in 2018 and one-quarter would face a tax increase in 2027," said TPC.
Super-rich households and corporations would benefit most. Middle-income consumers would see a modest benefit next year, America's 1% a bonanza, an average tax cut of $37,000.
Households earning $732,000 or more would pay about $64,000 less in taxes on average.
By 2027, nearly one-third of middle-income households would pay $1,150 more in taxes on average.
"Among the top 1 percent, two-thirds would pay an average of $123,000 less, and one-third would pay an average of $62,000 more" in 2027, said TPC.
Many 2018 tax reductions would disappear over time, TPC explained, "in part because some are scheduled to expire in five years, and in part because much of the individual income tax code would be indexed for inflation using a less generous formula than today" – called chain-weighted CPI, an artificially lowered number unrelated to reality.
The House GOP tax bill under consideration will assure higher taxes for many US households ahead, not the "middle class miracle" Trump promised.


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The Wayward Press
Robert Benchley is remembered today as an American humorist, and his funny side was on display in his New Yorker theater reviews and other contributions. It was his background as a journalist, however, that shown through in his column "The Wayward Press."
Oct. 10, 1931 cover by Theodore Haupt.
Benchley's more serious side as a reporter (though still sprinkled with wit) demonstrated his ability to expose the conspiratorial nature of the 1930s press — which seemed to be in bed with moneyed interests — and decry its insatiable appetite for sensationalism. His October 10 column took aim at the coverage of the death of banking heir Benjamin Collings, who was murdered on Long Island Sound while aboard his yacht, Penguin. The investigation went on for weeks with scant developments, but that didn't stop the newspapers from trying to squeeze every ounce of blood from this turnip.
The New York Daily News milked the incident for all its worth, the heading of this first article featuring photos of the slain Benjamin Collings (far left), his widow (and briefly a suspect) Lillian Collings, as well as an image of their five-year-old daughter, Barbara. According to Lillian, all three were sleeping aboard the family yacht Penguin when two men paddled a canoe up to their boat. When Ben went on deck to confront the pair, these "pirates" (as she called them) seized control of the boat, and threw Ben overboard. According to Lillian, the men forced her into the canoe, then cut the Penguin's anchor and set it adrift with little Barbara still on board. While the girl was quickly rescued by another yachtsman, the "pirates" deposited Lillian in a moored motorboat on Oyster Bay before disappearing into the night. The Suffolk County DA found Lillian's account unbelievable, and newspapers subsequently described her story as bizarre and illogical. The Daily News headline below indicates Lillian's family wanted her interrogation to end…
…lacking any other details, the Daily News nevertheless kept the story alive with features such as this one below that described Five Stages in Life of Mrs. Benjamin Collings, Widowed by Yacht Murder…
…and in case readers still wanted more, the paper rehashed the whole thing in photos in its Sept. 12 edition…
A few days after the yacht incident the body of Ben Collings washed up on the North Shore, his hands bound and his skull bashed in. The Suffolk County DA then began hauling in pairs of suspects who somewhat matched Lillian's description — a 50-year-old man with gray hair and a skinny teenager — but none were quite right. The crime has never been solved.
Benchley concluded his column with some quotations which he "did not believe"…
And Now For Something Ironic…
In his "Notes and Comment," E.B. White teased New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney for blaming the market crash on "human vanity and selfishness," when it was indeed those qualities that drove the markets in the first place. Before the decade was out Whitney would succumb to the very vices he named, and would serve three years and four months at Sing Sing for embezzlement.
HE DID TIME, THEN HE DID SOME MORE TIME…Richard Whitney made the cover of the Feb. 26, 1934 issue of Time magazine for his work as president of the New York Stock Exchange. At left, Whitney in 1937. He was sentenced to five to ten years for embezzlement, but was released early from Sing Sing for good behavior. He went on to a simpler life, managing a dairy farm and then a textile company before his death in 1974 at age 86. (Wikipedia/Time)
The What Goes Up Department
E.B. White also commented on the latest edition of the Goodyear Blimp, christened Columbia, which he spotted hanging around the Empire State Building. Note E.B. White's last line…
…Columbia was flying around the Empire State Building because Goodyear was running a sightseeing service in which passengers paid $3 for a 15-minute flight around Manhattan. The blimp also performed publicity stunts such as delivering newspapers to a man standing on the Empire State's mooring mast — that particular stunt was supposedly a test to see if airships could anchor on the mast for passenger loading and unloading (and as we know, they couldn't and wouldn't).
Just four months after White watched Columbia hover over Manhattan, the airship would indeed bust into a thousand pieces, meeting its demise near the Queens airport (today's LaGuardia). Caught in unexpected high winds, Columbia dipped into the ground, tearing off its landing gear and bending its propellers. The ground crew tried to secure the blimp but an updraft ripped the airship from their hands and sent it sailing over Flushing Bay.
As Columbia once again drifted back over land, the 23-year pilot Prescott Dixon ordered his chief mechanic, John Blair, to pull a rip cord that would release most of the air from the blimp. As Blair reached from the cabin for the cord the blimp shifted, and Blair fell to his death. Columbia then knocked two men off a warehouse roof (injuring them), then struck a factory and some power lines before crashing along the tracks of the Long Island Railroad. Dixon survived after being extricated from the crumpled gondola.
CHRISTENED WITH A BOTTLE OF LIQUID AIR, the Goodyear Blimp Columbia was readied for its inaugural flight over Akron, Ohio, in July 1931.
A SHORT LIFE…Just seven months after its inaugural flight, Columbia crashed near Flushing Bay on Feb. 12, 1932. (kathrynsreport.com)
When Bridges Were Crowd-Pleasers
"The Talk of the Town" announced the imminent opening of the Jeffreys Hook Bridge, to be known thence as the George Washington Bridge:
GET OUT YOUR TOP HAT…New Yorkers turned out in droves to mark the official opening of the George Washington Bridge on Oct. 24, 1931. Gov. Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, left, and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, right, did the ribbon honors at the dedication. (New Haven Register/AP)
They Couldn't Say 'Hooters' Either
In these coarser times it is hard to believe that 89 years ago the word "bosom" was a "no-no" on the nation's airwaves, per this "Talk" item…
An Actor's Actor
Theater critic Robert Benchley wasn't the only one who noticed the talents of newcomer Charles Laughton in his New York stage debut — Hollywood would immediately come calling for the 32-year-old English actor:
WE'LL KEEP HIM…Cicely Oates as Annie Marble and Charles Laughton as William Marble in the 1931 play Payment Deferred. (Museum of the City of New York)
Kinda Long For Being Short
Humorist Frank Sullivan claimed to be following the trend for shorter short stories by turning in this piece with an editor's note longer than the story itself:
Lurid Lit
Our dear Dorothy Parker is back with another of her entertaining book columns, and in this installment we have her taking on the world of literary and not-so-literary sex romps. Excerpts:
DIRTY LITTLE BOOKS?…The three books featured in Dorothy Parker's column included, from left, Young and Healthy by Donald Henderson Clarke (issued here under a different title in a pulp 1948 Novel Library edition); Theodore Wilde's Moonblind, which featured a hermaphrodite character and homosexual encounters; and although attributed to Anonymous, Lady Chatterley's Husbands was actually written by Anthony Gudaitis, aka Anton Gud, who often wrote anonymously for erotica publisher Samuel Roth. Although it was publicized as a sequel to D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Gud's book actually had less sex than the Lawrence original. After all, in the sequel Lady Chatterley gets tired of horny old Mellors. (Goodreads/Amazon)
…and before we leave Dorothy, please note her last line in the review, where she quotes Carl Rose's famed 1928 cartoon (with caption by E.B. White)…
Just a couple quick ones (I will have more in the next installment)…Lord & Taylor showed young New Yorkers how to look smart for the fall (Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store in the United States (founded 1826), recently closed all 38 of its stores due to the pandemic, and it was announced in August that Lord & Taylor would be liquidated. Apparently its name will continue as an online-only business…
…and Helen Hokinson offered this illustration of one of her "girls" shilling for Frigidaire refrigerators…
…and two more from Helen in the Oct. 10 cartoons…
…exploring men's attitudes toward the opposite sex…
…Garrett Price visited a seemingly unappetizing banquet…
…Kemp Starrett gave us a man looking at life on the bright side…
…William Steig explored home decor…
…Barbara Shermund found some bedtime gossip…
…and recalling our earlier "Talk" item regarding bosoms, here's Peter Arno…
Next Time: Monkey Business…
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The Coming War
While many Americans partied through the Roaring Twenties, there were a few voices out there, barely audible, that warned of economic collapse and another world war.
Oct. 3, 1931 cover by Helen Hokinson.
The humorist and New Yorker contributor Frank Sullivan was among the few who took notice of the dire predictions (of war, anyway) and turned it into a funny take on how a European war might unfold. Excerpts:
Sullivan's last line is a wordplay on "air," and not likely a prediction of the horrible firebombing and V-2 attacks that would devastate Europe in the following decade.
In Sullivan's day two notable predictions of war came from British economist John Maynard Keynes and British author Hector Charles Bywater. In his 1919 book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Keynes warned that "unstable elements," destroyed during the Great War (WWI), had not been replaced with more stable networks or institutions. Bywater's prescient 1925 novel, The Great Pacific War, featured a hypothetical future war between Japan and the U.S. that predicted a number of events in World War Two's Pacific Theatre.
I SEE DEAD PEOPLE…Economist John Maynard Keynes and British author Hector Charles Bywater both didn't like what they saw coming on the horizon.
There were reasons for Keynes to be concerned. Germany found many ways to subvert restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, and continued to make technological advances in armaments and air power. Moreover, the Treaty's humiliating terms and demands for costly reparations would lead to a rise in German nationalism in the midst of mass unemployment and a volatile economy. In just a little over a year Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party would seize control of the German state.
And as Bywater feared, the Japanese invaded Manchuria (under false pretenses) on Sept. 18, 1931, and then ignored orders to withdraw from the League of Nations (which had been established by a covenant included in the Treaty of Versailles). Japanese warlords were emboldened by the ease of this takeover and the toothless response from the international community. This scenario would be replayed by the Nazis when they invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939.
UGH, IT'S THAT GUY…Clockwise, from top left, Adolph Hitler rolls into Weimar as the Nazi Party continued to gain power in 1930; Hitler youth out for a bike ride in 1932; Japanese troops celebrate their easy invasion of Manchuria in September 1931; political cartoon illustrated Japan's attitude toward international treaties. (Wikipedia/Pinterest)
The Man Who Would Not Be King
The world that was gradually setting the stage for World War II was also the world of Edward VIII, the Prince of Wales. A renowned womanizer and major disappointment to his father, George V, this heir to the British throne would begin a secret affair with American socialite Wallis Simpson that would later lead to his abdication as king after a reign of just 326 days. In a two-part profile, the New Yorker's London correspondent Anthony Gibbs could already see that Edward would not be like other monarchs, this lonely "fish out of water" bored with court protocol and finding escape in a bottle of whisky. Excerpts from Part I (caricature by Al Frueh):
HITLER HONEYMOON…Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in December 1936 and married the newly divorced Wallis Simpson in June 1937. Four months later (right) they would pay a visit to Adolph Hitler and his thugs at Hitler's mountain retreat above Berchtesgaden. Edward was known to be sympathetic to the Nazis, and favored the type of appeasement that would embolden Der Führer to invade Czechoslovakia and much of Europe beginning in 1939. (Pinterest/Wikipedia)
The opening of the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue had everyone and their dog getting in on a piece of the action, including manufacturers who hoped to associate their wares with the world's tallest hotel…we begin with an ad from the hotel's promoters…
…I surprised to find pedestrian products such as rayon curtains and aluminum chairs associated with the luxury hotel…
…but perhaps the novelty of these things made them "must-haves" associated with modern living in 1931…this ad from the Oct 10 issue…
…one habit of modern living was cigarette smoking, and thanks to aggressive advertising droves of women were joining the menfolk in this activity…
…Camels were originally promoted as a woman's cigarette, and in 1931 R.J. Reynolds shifted their ad style from chic illustrations of disinterested, continental types, such as the one below by Carl Erickson from the March 21, 1931 issue (and imitated by the Spud ad above)…
…to photographs of fresh-faced American women…
…Barney's ran this recurring ad (with illustration by Peter Arno) in the back pages of the New Yorker, the latest touting the reopening of Barney Gallant's "continental cabaret"…
GOOD TIME BARNEY…Barney Gallant was a celebrity and a hero to many New Yorkers for his defiance of Prohibition. At left, actor/writer/producer John Murray Anderson (seated) and Gallant in a photo by Nickolas Muray. At right, illustration by Joseph Golinken of Gallant's speakeasy Speako de Luxe at 19 Washington Square North. The first New Yorker to be prosecuted under the Volstead Act (serving 30 days in the Tombs), Gallant operated several Bohemian speakeasies in Greenwich Village during the 1920s. Stanley Walker (writing in his 1933 history, The Night Club Era) described the clientele as "youngsters with strange stirrings in their breasts, who had come from remote villages on the prairie; women of social position and money who wanted to do things — all sorts of things — in a bohemian setting; businessmen who had made quick money and wanted to breathe the faintly naughty atmosphere in safety, and ordinary people who got thirsty now and then and wanted to sit down and have a drink." (Metropolitan Museum/New York Historical Society)
…New Yorker cartoonist William Crawford Galbraith picked up some extra income illustrating this ad for The New York American…
…which segues into our cartoons, beginning with Alan Dunn and the art of the dance,
…Barbara Shermund, who showed us that a war (movie) is hell…
…William Steig continued to develop his repertoire of cartoons with precocious children…
…Kemp Starrett gave us a salesman who put more than his foot in the door…
…James Thurber continued his ongoing "dialogue" between the sexes..,
…William Crawford Galbraith again, with his take on "Upstairs, Downstairs"…
…Rea Irvin also exploring the theme in this two-page spread (click to enlarge)…
…and we end with another by Kemp Starrett, and the blasé attitude New Yorkers might display before the world's tallest building…
Next Time: The Wayward Press…
Posted on October 19, 2020 Categories advertising, celebrities, Great Depression, Nightlife, prohibition, The New Yorker MagazineTags 1930s advertising, 1930s cigarette ads, 1930s New York, Al Frueh, Alan Dunn, Anthony Gibbs, Barbara Shermund, Barney Gallant, Carl "Eric" Erickson, Edward VIII, Frank Sullivan, Hector Charles Bywater, Helen E. Hokinson, James Thurber, John Maynard Keynes, Kemp Starrett, Manchurian Invasion 1931, Peter Arno, prohibition, Rea Irvin, speakeasies, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, The Great Pacific War, The New Yorker, Treaty of Versailles, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Wallis Simpson, William Crawford Galbraith, William SteigLeave a comment on The Coming War
Big Fish, Little Fish
Battery Park's Castle Clinton was a fort, a popular entertainment complex, and an immigration depot before the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White transformed it into the New York Aquarium in 1896.
Sept. 26, 1931 cover by Rea Irvin.
The Aquarium's beginnings were modest, but under the direction of zoologist Charles Haskins Townsend it became one of lower Manhattan's biggest attractions. "The Talk of the Town" looked in on its latest acquisitions, including the first display of live piranha (here spelled paranha) in America:
When the Aquarium opened it was marvel of late 19th century technology; its enormous glass tanks and pools — holding more than 300,000 gallons of water — were controlled by an elaborate behind-the-scenes operation that ensured each species had the right kind of water conditions and food to survive, at least for awhile; the Aquarium in its early days, like the Central Park Zoo we visited recently, displayed its creatures as curiosities in decidedly unnatural surroundings…
DE-NATURED…In the New York Aquarium's early days, fish and other aquatic animals were displayed in glass tanks that lined the out walls as well as in concrete ponds below the expansive trussed ceiling. If this rendering is accurate, then these creatures, especially the whales, had miserable, short lives. (thebattery.org)
…and this is a promotion for the Aquarium you would not see today…
…and here are a few images from the early years…more than 100 years old but still not easy to look at…
DRY-DOCKED…these are images used on postcards to promote the Aquarium — the black and white ones are from 1909, the color image circa 1925-30. Clockwise, from top left, Aquarium worker poking at a manatee with a stick (yeah fella, they're not happy, and probably dying); a crocodile gets some dinner; image common from yesteryear of a child (or groups of children) sitting on a hapless turtle or tortoise; seals in a pool that contained water but nothing else remotely similar to their natural environment. (nyheritage.org)
…it's easy for us to pass judgment on the unfortunate actions of our forebears, but to his credit Charles Haskins Townsend, director of the Aquarium from 1902 to 1937, advocated for bans on whaling and constantly worked to improve conditions at the Aquarium…
POPULAR DESTINATION…Whether folks were visiting the Aquarium or jumping on a riverboat or ferry, Battery Park was a place to go in the early 20th century. Top and bottom right, exterior and interior views of the Aquarium. Bottom left, the care and feeding took place behind the outer walls. (wcsarchivesblog.org)
…and Aquarium staff tried their best to keep fish alive during relocation, even using train cars specially designed for the purpose…
(Popular Mechanics 1931)
…once at the Aquarium, teams were ready to put the animals into their proper places…
LONELY NO MORE…Paddlewings, the lonely penguin apparently famous enough to be mentioned in the "Talk" piece, is pictured at right in this 1931 article. (Modern Mechanics, August 1931) click to enlarge.
The end came for the Battery Park aquarium when NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses proposed construction of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel under Castle Clinton. Moses also thought the aquarium was an eyesore, and had it demolished in 1941…
(thebattery.org)
…preservationists managed to stop the demolition before the walls of Castle Clinton were razed. It is now a national monument…
Castle Clinton, circa 1970s. (Flickr)
Attitudes toward drunken driving — or drunken flying — were very different 89 years ago. Case in point was this "Epitaph" written by Morris Markey marking the passing of Carter Leigh, who carried the air mail while flying under the influence (Reginald Marsh contributed the portrait) …
Exit, Stage Left
The glitzy showgirl revues continued on Broadway with George White's Scandals, which featured such headliners as singers Ethel Merman and Rudy Vallée, and hoofer Ray Bolger. Reviewer Robert Benchley wrote that the show gave him "the feeling of having a good time," but the same could not be said for Mae West's The Constant Sinner; Benchley thought the glare of West's stardom upstaged the play itself:
SIMULACRUM OF A GOOD TIME…Robert Benchley questioned his own enjoyment of George White's Scandals of 1931; from top, left, program from the show; singers Rudy Vallée and Ethel Merman were popular stars, as were hoofer Ray Bolger (who in 1939 would portray the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz) and actress Luella Gear (photo from the 1934 play Life Begins at 8:40); chorus girls in costume during a Scandals performance. (Playbill/Heritage Auctions/gershwin.com/Pinterest)
A STAR IS WORN…Benchley thought Mae West upstaged herself in The Constant Sinner. At right, West in a publicity photo with co-star Walter Petrie. (Playbill/Heritage Auctions)
Sports columnist and occasional New Yorker contributor Ring Lardner enjoyed poking fun at revered institutions including Morris Markey's "A Reporter at Large" column. Lardner rambled through several subjects but mostly reminisced about great baseball players of the past. Two brief excerpts:
BEDTIME STORIES…the great American sports writer and satirist Ring Lardner, circa 1930. (Chicago Tribune)
We have yet another somewhat misleading ad from the makers of Lux Toilet Soap featuring an older actress who looked deceptively young for her age…
…the Russian-American actress Alla Nazimova (1879 – 1945) was actually 52 years old when this ad appeared, but the photo featured at left was taken in early 1923, when she was 43, so in a sense the ad was somewhat truthful…
Photo of Alla Nazimova taken by Nickolas Muray on Feb. 1, 1923 for Vanity Fair magazine. (Conde Nast)
…Park Avenue would never be the same with the opening of the grand Art Deco Waldorf Astoria, at 47 stories and 625 feet, it was the world's tallest hotel from 1931 until 1963…
…nor would the skyline at Central Park West be the same with the addition of Irwin Chanin's modern "Majestic" and "Century" apartments that featured GE refrigerators sold by Rex Cole, who himself was keen on architecture and design…
…and who hired Raymond Hood to create distinctive refrigerator showrooms in Manhattan, Brookyn and Queens…
Rex Cole Showroom in Flushing, Queens, crowned with a replica of the GE refrigerator's disintictive "Monitor Top." With their spare, open plan, the modern showrooms were ahead of their time. (Museum of the City of New York, Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1931)
…on to our cartoonists, we have Chon Day at ringside…
…Kemp Starrett eavesdropped on some science-minded shoppers…
…Garrett Price gave us a maid's refreshing perspective on a game of chess…
…Helen Hokinson found some serious talk among the younger posh set…
…and we end with another from Garrett Price, and the challenges of renting a room near Times Square…
Next Time: The Coming War…
Posted on October 9, 2020 Categories advertising, architecture & buildings, Great Depression, New Yorker cartoons, The New Yorker MagazineTags Alla Nazimova, Battery Park, Carter Leigh, Castle Clinton, Charles Haskins Townsend, Chon Day, Ethel Merman, Garrett Price, George White's Scandals, Helen E. Hokinson, Kemp Starrett, Morris Markey, New York Aquarium, Ray Bolger, Rex Cole refrigerators, Ring Lardner, Rudy Vallée4 Comments on Big Fish, Little Fish
Unnatural History
In my last post we visited the Central Park Zoo, circa 1931, and found a collection of animals displayed as curiosities in barren enclosures that in no way resembled natural habitats.
Aug. 29, 1931 cover by Constantin Alajalov.
It's hard to say if those creatures were better or worse off than their cousins at the American Museum of Natural History, a short walk across the park to the northwest. Unlike the zoo, the tigers and rhinos at the museum were displayed in naturalistic, almost dreamlike settings. But then again they were dead; indeed, all that remained of them were their skins, skillfully fitted over skeletons of wood and clay.
SIMULACRUM…Clockwise, from top left, American Museum of Natural History staff mounting rhinoceros and Indian elephant, circa 1930; preparing African buffalo group diorama; staff cleaning elephant skin in preparation for mounting on a frame consisting of a skull and some wood. This would be covered with clay before the skin is fitted. (vintag.es)
E.B. White stopped by the famed museum to take a look at its new Asiatic Hall, and filed this report for "The Talk of the Town."
The animals pictured below came from a couple of British big game hunters, gathered during expeditions in the 1910s and 1920s…
PLEASE HOLD STILL…American Museum of Natural History staff prepare the tiger group diorama in 1931. The display was in the new Asiatic Hall referred to by E.B. White. (vintage.es)
SURVIVORS OF A SORT…Nearly 90 years later, the tiger group is still on display at the American Museum of Natural History, now in the Hall of Biodiversity. (AMNH)
STILL THE SAME…This Asiatic leopard diorama, which so impressed E.B. White, also survives to this day, in the Hall of Asian Mammals at AMNH. (atlasobscura)
NEVER-ENDING BATTLE…The Sambar stag diorama, dating to 1911, is also mentioned by White in his article. (atlasobscura)
I am delighted that the AMNH (which I visited in December as an avid fan of diorama art) preserves these exhibits, which not only display animals — many now endangered — but also the artistry of painters, sculptors and taxidermists from a century ago. Sadly, many museums are scrapping these cultural treasures and replacing them with gaudy, interactive displays and video screens. An article in Newsweek ("Museum Dioramas Are as Endangered as the Animals They Contain," Aug. 2, 2015) notes that around 2008 "the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., closed two diorama halls and reopened them with video screens, interactive features and stand-alone specimens where the dioramas had been." In other words, the specimens were removed from naturalistic scenes and displayed as stand-alone curiosities, rather like those poor animals in the Central Park Zoo of yesteryear.
Everyday Icons
Gilbert Seldes profiled industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904 – 1972), who along with contemporaries Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes was among celebrity designers of the midcentury. Like Bel Geddes, Dreyfuss was a well-known Broadway set designer who would go on to become an industrial designer in the era of streamlining. But unlike Loewy and Bel Geddes, Dreyfuss went well beyond mere styling, taking a practical, scientific approach to problems that would not only make products better looking, but also safer and more comfortable to use. An excerpt:
GOT MY START IN SHOW BIZ…Henry Dreyfuss in 1946, and his 1930-31 design of the RKO Theatre in Davenport, Iowa (now the Adler Theatre). (Wikipedia/qctimes.com)
ICONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE…Some of Dreyfuss's designs included, top row: the Western Electric Model 500 telephone (center), which replaced the clunkier Model 300 (left) in 1950; the Hoover model 150 vacuum cleaner, from 1936; middle row: Dreyfuss designs for the New York Central Railroad's streamlined Mercury train (1936); and the NYC Hudson locomotive for the Twentieth Century Limited (1938); bottom row: Dreyfuss designed things as varied as tractors for John Deere (1960); the Honeywell T87 circular wall thermostat (1953–present); and the Polaroid SX-70 Land camera (1972).
Body-Building Barnum
Another well-known figure of the 1930s was Bernarr Macfadden (1868 – 1955), an early proponent of physical culture who would prefigure such notables as Charles Atlas, Jack LaLanne, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But none of them were quite like McFadden, who also created a pulp publishing empire (among his magazines: Liberty, True Detective, True Story, True Romances, Photoplay and the notorious tabloid newspaper The New York Evening Graphic).
READ ALL ABOUT IT…Macfadden's Evening Graphic was all about scandal, and especially sex and murder.
Macfadden also established numerous "healthatoriums" across the East and Midwest, including (in 1931) his latest venture, the Physical Culture Hotel near Dansville, New York. E.B. White explained, in his "Notes and Comment"…
MCFADDEN SHOWS OFF HIS BOD in 1910 (left) at age 42, and at age 55 in 1923. (Wikipedia)
BEFORE AND AFTER…Mcfadden acquired the 1882 Jackson Sanatorium near Dansville, NY in 1931 and renamed it the Physical Culture Hotel. Circa 1930s images at top contrast with the condition of the property today — it fell into disrepair after MacFadden's death in 1955, and closed for good in 1971. Known to locals as the "Castle on the Hill" in its heyday, it can still be glimpsed by motorists traveling on I-390. (bernarrmacfadden.com/abandonedplaces.livejournal.com)
When I came across "Farewell to Birds," on page 17, I thought for a moment it was one of James Thurber's animal parodies (there was even a Thurber cartoon at the bottom of the page), but then I noticed our writer was Will Cuppy, (1884-1949) who wrote in the Thurber vein (Cuppy was ten years Thurber's senior) and like Thurber, was a bit of a curmudgeon. From 1931 until his death Cuppy wrote satirical pieces for the New Yorker that were later collected into books (also like Thurber). Here is an excerpt from "Farewell to Birds."
THE SIMPLE LIFE…Satirist Will Cuppy (center, in 1932) and two of his early books. How to be a Hermit (1929) was a humorous look at his life residing in a Jones Island seaside shack from 1921 to 1929 (he was escaping city noise and hayfever); How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes was a 1931 compilation of Cuppy's articles, including the one above.
Puttin' on the Ritz
Lois Long, newly divorced from cartoonist Peter Arno, concluded her fashion column ("On and Off the Avenue") by telling readers about her "swell new hairdo"…
HAVE A SEAT, LOIS…The perm room at Charles of the Ritz, 1932.
Your Majesty
Speaking of new looks, Central Park West was boasting the addition of a new "skyscraper apartment building" called the Majestic. "The Sky Line" reported:
APTLY NAMED…The Majestic at Central Park West. (Pinterest)
Another building making its mark was the Parc Vendôme on West 57th, offering more than 600 apartments with annual rents ranging from $1,100 to $6,600. Condos in the same building today range from $495,000 to $5,495,000.
BREAD BOX INCLUDED…The Parc Vendôme on West 57th. (street easy.com)
Henry Mandel, one of New York City's most ambitious developers in the 1920s and early 30s, touted the Parc Vendôme in this advertisement…
…I wonder if Lois Long (see above) got one of these "dos" at the Ritz…I love the snob appeal of this ad — "The New Paris Way of Doing Your Hair"…
…which seemed to work…here is a random sample of Hollywood stars in 1931, all wearing the look…
DOING THE WAVE…From left, Tilly Losch, Constance Bennett, and Barbara Stanwyck.
…other ads appealing to the Continental lifestyle…a very understated yet elegant ad for Guerlain lipstick, and Nellie Harrington-Levine gave us a disinterested deb sporting "the wave," a cigarette and a velvet dress…
…and Pond's continued its parade of rich society women to sell its cold cream…here we are presented with "Mrs. Morgan Belmont," aka Margaret Frances Andrews (1894 – 1945), a Newport socialite and prize-winning show dog breeder…
Andrews didn't limit herself to cold cream, here appearing in a 1927 ad for Simmons mattresses…
Margaret Frances Andrews was a noted dog breeder, seen above at the Newport Dog Show around 1915; below, Andrews had a small role in the 1920 Mary Pickford film Way Down East. Andrews, at left, was credited as "Mrs. Morgan Belmont."
…and we move on to this sad little ad from the back pages, featuring something called "Peeko," which apparently mimicked the flavors of Rye, Gin and Rum…it must have tasted awful…
…our cartoons feature Perry Barlow, and I can't quite tell if this guy is drinking a soda or some bootleg gin, which was often sold at select gas stations…
…a two-page sequence from Gardner Rea…
…Otto Soglow went fishing…
…and commiserated with a couple of unemployed guys whose plight is ignored by the celebrity-obsessed media…
…Alan Dunn hit the lecture circuit…
…Kemp Starrett sketched some wink-wink, nudge-nudge at the men's store…
…and we close with James Thurber, and the trials of our elders…
Next Time: Bonfire of the Vanities…
Posted on September 4, 2020 September 9, 2020 Categories advertising, architecture & buildings, celebrities, Design, Great Depression, health & medicine, New Yorker cartoons, The New Yorker MagazineTags 1930s advertising, 1930s fashion, 1930s New York, Alan Dunn, American Museum of Natural History, Bernarr McFadden, Charles of the Ritz, Constantin Alajalov, Dioramas, E.B. White, Gardner Rea, Gilbert Seldes, Hall of Asian Mammals, Henry Dreyfuss, industrial design, James Thurber, Kemp Starrett, Lois Long, Majestic apartments NY, Margaret Frances Andrews, Mrs. Morgan Belmont, Museum dioramas, Otto Soglow, Parc Vendome, Peeko, Perry Barlow, Physical Culture Hotel, Taxidermy 1930s, The New York Evening Graphic, The New Yorker, Will Cuppy2 Comments on Unnatural History
Asphalt Jungle
The zoos of yesteryear were joyless places, that is, if you were one of the animals. Children squealed with fear and delight at the sight of a caged lion, and many an adult had fun tossing peanuts at elephants or teasing enraged gorillas locked behind bars; but if you were a zoo animal in 1931, life was endless hours of boredom, sprinkled with moments of terror and humiliation.
Aug. 15, 1931 cover by Theodore Haupt.
It is instructive to look back 89 years and see how far we've come, and how far we still have to go, to see our fellow creatures as more than curiosities and amusements to be captured and gawked at, and to see their environments as something to be preserved, not only for their survival but for ours as well.
LIFE BEHIND BARS…Left, a zookeeper with chimps at the Central Park Zoo, 1936. Right, a rhino paces in a barred enclosure, 1937. (nycgovparks.org)
E.B. White paid a visit to the Central Park Zoo, and found it wanting in a number of respects:
Many zoos back then were more collections of curiosities than places where you could learn about various habitats. So when David Sarnoff, president of RCA, bagged a live opossum in the South, the critter was given a new home in an antelope enclosure, per this item in the Dec. 20, 1931 New York Times:
The Central Park Zoo was established in the 1860s as a "menagerie" behind the Arsenal, and by the turn of the century attracted millions of visitors to its displays of exotic animals.
GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL…Postcard image of the Menagerie in Central Park, New York, 1905. (Museum of the City of New York—MCNY)
ANIMAL ATTRACTION…Postcard image of folks enjoying caged birds at the Menagerie, 1905. (MCNY)
O GIVE ME A HOME…In the early days of zoos, animals were presented in cages and fenced enclosures with no hint as to what their natural habitat might look like. Clockwise, from top left, "Fatima" the hippo, image from an 1896 stereograph card; a 1911 photo of a trainer and a dog perched on top of a hapless elephant; a bull bison around the turn of the century; a group of people observe animals in cages at the Central Park Menagerie, 1895. (Library of Congress/nycgovparks.org/MCNY)
He's Your Future
The New Yorker featured two-part profile of the governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who unbeknownst to writer Milton MacKaye would soon become the next president of the United States. Two excerpts (not continuous)…
Ah yes, the first time I visited the Empire State Building's observation deck (in the 1970s) a heavy smog enveloped the city (the air is much cleaner today). I like how the promoters spin disappointment into an opportunity — "The mysterious beauty of the city has a million constantly changing aspects"…
…if you were looking for bluer skies, Bermuda could have been an option if you had the means…
…or you could have stayed closer to home at a Long Island beach resort, as Helen Hokinson illustrated, and as we segue into our cartoons…
…I. Klein gave us a very unscientific, albeit humorous view of genetics…
…Richard Decker redefined the meaning of "volunteers"…
…and William Steig summoned the advice of Dorothy Dix, a forerunner of "Dear Abby" who was the most widely read female journalist of her time…
We move on to the Aug. 22, 1931 issue…
Aug. 22, 1931 cover by Helen Hokinson.
…in which James Thurber wrote about his experience with early television in "The Talk of the Town"…
NO CABLE BILL, YET…Charles Francis Jenkins demonstrates his "Radiovisor" console television in 1929. At right, the inner workings featured a rotating disc punctured with tiny holes, each projecting a line across the glass screen to compose an image. As Thurber noted, the pictures commonly were too dark for viewers to see anything more than silhouettes. (earlytelevision.org)
The Other Moving Pictures
The movies still had nothing to fear from television in 1931, and Hollywood continued to draw large audiences to "Pre-Code" films that featured doses of sex and violence. Novelist Viña Delmar gained famed in 1928 with her suggestively titled book Bad Girl, so when it was adapted into a film, audiences came running — even if the screen adaptation proved to be a bit tamer than the novel that inspired it. Critic John Mosher observed:
I'M JUST A LITTLE BAD…Sally Eilers played the title character in Bad Girl with co-star James Dunn. The film won two Oscars in 1932 for Best Director (Frank Borzage) and Best Writing, Adaptation (Edwin J. Burke). (IMDB)
Chic Chapeau
The Empress Eugénie hat was named for 19th century French empress Eugénie de Montijo, who was known as a fashion trendsetter. The hat was revived in 1930 after Greta Garbo was seen wearing a version of one in the popular film Romance. E.B. White was not exaggerating when he noted (in his "Notes and Comment") that the jaunty hat was seen on "every other head" in the city.
LOOK WHAT YOU STARTED…Greta Garbo sported an Empress Eugénie hat in the 1930 film Romance, setting off a fashion craze that persisted through much of the decade. At right, Kemp Starrett referenced the trend in this Aug. 8, 1931 cartoon in the New Yorker. (Pinterest)
Speaking of trends, these "roughies" were all the rage among the young folks, in the dorms and on the beach…
…one trend I wasn't aware still persisted in 1931 was a top hat and tails for an evening out among the smart set…
…according to this ad, if you were a "smart" and fashionable New Yorker, then you needed an "Inebriates" themed cocktail set…
…examples of the glassware for sale on Worthpoint…
…Dr. Seuss was still busy selling pesticide with this four-panel ad…
…on to the cartoons, we start with James Thurber…
…and Rea Irvin continued to experiment with various motifs, this time an Egyptian-themed cartoon referencing the "wine bricks" sold by enterprising vineyards during Prohibition…
…Peter Arno found a big surprise during a mansion tour…
…and we end with Otto Soglow…
…and Richard Decker…both cartoons reminded me of Al Jaffee's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions…
…I grew up reading Mad magazine, and always looked forward to Jaffee's fold-ins…he just retired from Mad at the young age of 99, so we conclude with one of his Snappy Answers panels from Mad #98, Oct. 1965…
Next Time: Unnatural History…
Posted on August 25, 2020 Categories advertising, celebrities, cinema, fads & crazes, fashion, Great Depression, New Yorker cartoons, politics, radio & television, television, The New Yorker MagazineTags Al Jaffee, Bad Girl 1931, Central Park Menagerie, Central Park Zoo 1930s, Charles Francis Jenkins, Dr. Seuss Flit, E.B. White, Early television, Eugénie hat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Greta Garbo, Helen E. Hokinson, I. Klein, James Dunn, James Thurber, John Mosher, Kemp Starrett, Milton MacKaye, Otto Soglow, Peter Arno, Rea Irvin, Richard Decker, Sally Eilers, Theodore Haupt, Vina Delmar, William Steig2 Comments on Asphalt Jungle
An American Classic
Immigration over the centuries transformed New York City into a cosmopolitan metropolis, with many of those migrants drawn from America's hinterlands. What they found in the city was not only economic opportunity, but also a place to grow artistically and intellectually.
Aug. 8, 1931 cover by Theodore Haupt.
Such was the case of Willa Cather, who while living in New York City would draw on her Nebraska childhood to write a succession of novels about prairie life and its people (including My Antonia and O Pioneers!) that would culminate in a 1923 Pulitzer Prize.
Louise Bogan, in 1931 a new poetry editor for the New Yorker (and a poet herself), wrote a profile of Cather for the Aug. 8 issue. An excerpt:
TWO FACES…Hugo Gellert rendering of Willa Cather for the profile; undated photo at right gives you some idea of the look Cather aimed at the affected behavior of others. (New York Times)
FORMATIVE YEARS…Clockwise, from top left, Willa Cather as a student at the University of Nebraska in the early 1890s; classmates at Nebraska included author and activist Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Alvin Johnson, later a co-founder of New York's New School. Both Cather and Fisher took fencing lessons from John J. Pershing, who taught military science at Nebraska; Cather's childhood home in Red Cloud, Neb., and the prairie that inspired much of her writing. (news.unl.edu/Wikipedia/new school.edu/literaryamerica.net)
CITY LIFE…Clockwise, from top: S. S. McClure, Willa Cather, Ida Tarbell, and Will Irvin visit in Washington Square Park, 1924; Cather in the meadow of High Mowing farm near Jaffrey, N.H., where she wrote part of My Antonia; on the cover of Time, Aug. 3, 1931; one of Cather's New York residences at 82 Washington Place. (Indiana University/Southwick Collection, University of Nebraska/time.com/jschumacher.typepad.com)
Bogan concluded the profile with this note about Lèon Bakst, who was commissioned in 1923 to paint a portrait of Cather while she visiting Paris (image courtesy Omaha Public Library):
My dear late friend Susan Rosowski, who was a preeminent Cather scholar, wrote that Cather was "the first to give immigrants heroic stature in serious American literature." In these times when immigration is so hotly debated, it is worth revisiting My Antonia and O Pioneers! to recall what once made America truly great.
One Arm Restaurant
If you wanted to get lunch fast and cheap in 1931 you might have stopped at one of John Thompson's New York restaurants. According to Tom Miller (daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com), there were no waiters in Thompson's restaurants. "Customers purchased foods like cold corned beef, cold boiled ham, smoked boiled tongue or hot frankfurters at a counter. They then took their trays to 'one arm' chairs lined up along the wall. There were no tables; instead customers ate at what was similar to turn-of-the-century school desks." E.B. White stopped in for a visit:
YOU CAN'T MISS IT…John Thompson's name is emblazoned no less than four times on the front of his restaurant at No. 33 Park Row. No-frills interior featured "one-arm" chairs and a self-service coffee urn. (Museum of the City of New York /daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com)
Cinematic Eyeful
The Pre-Code comedy-drama Transatlantic was light on plot but heavy on deep-focus cinematography (by James Wong Howe) that wowed New Yorker critic John Mosher in 1931…and still wows critics today.
High Seas Hijinks…The pre-code comedy-drama Transatlantic wowed critic John Mosher not so much for its storyline as for its style and cinematography. Clockwise, from left, Edmund Lowe has his hands full with Lois Moran, Greta Nissen and Myrna Loy. (IMDB)
NIFTY NOIR…John Mosher loved the avant-garde, noir-ish stylings of Transatlantic. This film by director William K. Howard and cinematographer James Wong Howe is still admired today. A MoMA cinema site notes that the film's style anticipates Citizen Kane by ten years. (pre-code.com)
We begin with another socialite endorsing Pond's Cold Cream — Mrs. Potter d'Orsay Palmer nee Maria Eugenia Martinez de Hoz. She was wife No. 2 of Potter d'Orsay Palmer, son of the wealthy family of Chicago Palmer House fame…they would divorce in 1937, and the playboy Potter would marry two more times before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1939 (the result of a drunken brawl). Maria Eugenia would remarry and return to her homeland of Argentina to raise a family…
…it seems Maria Eugenia didn't limit herself to endorsing cold cream, as this next ad attests (from the May, 1934 Delineator magazine)…
…Maria Eugenia endorsed Camels because they were marketed to women back then, as were Marlboro cigarettes, the makers of which continued their silly handwriting and jingle-writing contests to promote the brand (note the examples "Miss Eileen Fitzgerald" offered of what defined a modern lifestyle)…
…the makers of Chesterfield cigarettes, on the other hand, originally marketed their product to men, but they made sure women were included in the copy beneath the image — "yes, there's a big woman vote" …
…you may recall the subtle ways Liggett & Myers began to lure women smokers back in 1928 with this ad campaign…
…you see a lot of tobacco ads because cigarette manufacturers were one of the few industries still turning a profit during the first years of the Depression…men and women were smoking like crazy, maybe to calm their nerves over the performance of their refrigerators…
…one could always calm the nerves by taking a spin in a new Plymouth, bargain-priced at just $535…
…and we have another Arno-esque ad by Herbert Roese, touting the wonders of "New York's Most Interesting Newspaper"…
…on to our cartoonists, we begin with this wonderful spot drawing by Barbara Shermund…
…and an illustration by Reginald Marsh of a Coney Island crowd that graced facing pages in "The Talk of the Town"…
…here's one of four drawings Walter Schmidt contributed to the New Yorker between 1931 and 1933…
…Perry Barlow illustrated the joys of dining out with the kiddies…
…back to Barbara Shermund, who eavesdropped on her debs…
…Kemp Starrett gave us a proud moment at the county fair…
…I. Klein offered up a new twist on the term "family planning"…
…John Held Jr assessed the aesthetic value of chunky mission-style furniture…
…and Peter Arno reappeared in the cartoons with this full-page illustration of some desperate climbers…
Next Time: Asphalt Jungle…
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Firecracker Lane
When fireworks were still allowed on the streets of New York City, Firecracker Lane was the place to go for all your pyrotechnic needs.
Theodore Haupt illustrated holiday travelers for the Fourth of July issue in 1931.
By 1931, however, fireworks had been banned across the greater New York City area, so customers visiting Firecracker Lane — a short row of sellers on Park Place between Broadway and Church Street — had to find a friendly burg beyond the metropolis to shoot off their Independence Day arsenals.
Before the city clamped down on the fun, Firecracker Lane did a bustling trade, and fireworks were even manufactured at sites around the metro area. But after a number of explosions and fires, the city closed down the fireworks factories, and by 1931 Fireworks Lane itself was on its last leg. "The Talk of the Town" visited what remained, and reminisced about the glory days.
A STREET WITH SOME SIZZLE…The famed Pain's Fireworks company occupied this building on Firecracker Lane, photo circa 1903. At right, a young woman promoting Pain's latest novelty, the "Chinese Dragon," in the 1920s. (MCNY)
HAVING A BLAST…In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Pain's staged massive themed fireworks displays, including the incredible The Last Days of Pompeii show on Manhattan Beach, seen here during its 1903 Season. (heartofconeyisland.com)
BEFORE THERE WERE MOVIES, entertainment companies were fond of putting on spectacular shows like The Last Days of Pompeii on Manhattan Beach. Illustration from an 1885 edition of Harper's Weekly. (heartofconeyisland.com)
LOCATION, LOCATION…Explosions at fireworks factories in New York and New Jersey put an end to the manufacture of fireworks in the area by 1930. Above, a July 1901 explosion of a fireworks factory in a Paterson, N.J. tenement resulted in the deaths of 17 people who lived above factory. The New York Times reported "So great was the force of the blast, that a boy playing in the street a half a block away was lifted from his feet and hurled against an iron fence, and had one of his legs broken." (Courtesy Paterson Fire History, via boweryboyshistory.com)
Not Mum on Mumford
In the previous post we were introduced to critic Lewis Mumford, who excoriated plans for the new Radio City, now known as Rockefeller Center. In his "Notes and Comment," E.B. White added his own two cents:
PERHAPS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CAKE…Even the promoters of the Radio City project looked uncertain of their scheme in this March 1931 photo. (drivingfordeco.com)
New Yorkers who wanted to get away from the steamy streets of Manhattan (almost no one had air conditioning in 1931) could catch the cooling breezes of the Atlantic on any number of cruise lines that plied the Eastern Seaboard and Canadian Maritimes during the summer…here the French Line offered a six-day "Triangle Cruise"…
…while Cunard offered a similar excursion (employing the cartooning skills of H.O. Hofman) that allowed passengers to "do the ocean" in just four days…
…to earn the ever-shrinking travel dollar during the Depression, both the Red Star and White Star lines offered their giant ocean liners for half- and full-week cruises to the Maritimes, Red Star even throwing in some on-board entertainment, claiming to be the first to do so "on any ocean"…
A SCRAPPED LOT…From top, the Belgenland, Majestic and Olympic. These great ships that once ferried passengers in high style between Europe and the States had been reduced to taking folks on short cruises and even one-day excursions due to the Depression. By the mid-1930s the Belgenland and Olympic (once the world's largest ship) were sold for scrap. The Majestic was scuttled a few years later. (Wikipeda)
…I'm not sure where this pair is headed, but the angle suggests they just drove off a cliff…
…if cliff diving wasn't your thing, you could tool around in a bright red Dodge boat…
…or be easily amused like this guy on the right, who gets his jollies from the abundance of ice cubes in his fridge…
…over at Essex House we find a more reserved scene, the "well-born" father and son gloating over their Central Park view…
…the Essex House might have been "all that," but Dad and Junior would have to reconsider their social rank against a newcomer — the Waldorf-Astoria, reborn on Park Avenue…
…on to our cartoons, this couple illustrated by Garrett Price might consider something with a larger balcony…
…Otto Soglow's Little King took his Little Prince out for some air…
…Kemp Starrett showed us a chap who contemplated the passing of time along with the passing of his timepiece…
…I. Klein updated the theme of a damsel in distress…
…the growing popularity of Ping-Pong gave James Thurber some material to explore the battle of the sexes…
…and Barbara Shermund left us poolside with a couple of eggheads…
…on to our July 11, 1931 issue…
July 11, 1931 cover by Rose Silver.
…we find E.B. White taking his sweetheart, Katharine Angell White (referred to here as his "best girl") out for a date at Coney Island…
A PLACE FOR ROMANCE…It's not them, but this couple visiting Coney Island in 1928 (photo by Walker Evans) will serve well as our stand-ins for E.B. and Katharine White on their date to Coney. At right, the famous "Tunnels of Love." (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Pinterest)
AND OTHER DIVERSIONS…Another famous and rather lurid Coney attraction was the wax museum, which featured dioramas based on headlines of the day. The biggest attractions were those featuring famous crime scenes, gruesome effects included. (Museum of the City of New York)
IT WAS A LIVING…Among other big attractions at Coney were the sideshow "freaks" White mentioned in his article. The photo above, from 1929, is by Edward J. Kelty. (artblart.com)
The 1954 film by the same name featured the murderous mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) who ruled the waterfront's stevedores with an iron fist. The reality was just as brutal, if not more so along the Brooklyn waterfront in the early 20th century, where the reign of a crime boss was as short as his life span. Alva Johnston reports:
TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD…Midcentury view of the Brooklyn waterfront. (thenewyorkmafia.com)
Dinnie Meehan's widow, Anna Lonergan, had the distinction of being shot at the side of two successive husbands; after Meehan was murdered, Anna married "White Hand" gangster Harry Reynolds. Johnston, who referred to Anna Lonergan as "the Brunhild of the longshore cycle," concluded his piece with a look at the "last of the great leaders," Red Donnelly, also known as "Cute Charlie"…
HARD KNOCKS…"Peg Leg" Lonergan was the final leader of the waterfront's "White Hand Gang." He was gunned down on Dec. 26, 1925, after a short reign as boss. He was just 25 years old when he died. (Pinterest)
With the glory days of vaudeville quickly receding into the past, Flo Ziegfeld was nevertheless determined to keep his "Follies" alive at his eponymous theatre. Robert Benchley stopped by for a look at the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931.
CARE FOR A SMOKE?…Program cover for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931. At right, Ziegfeld star Ruth Etting, who portrayed a cigarette girl in the show's "Club Piccadilly" skit. A note of trivia: Etting and I attended the same high school (but not at the same time!). (Playbill/Wikimedia Commons)
GLORY BE…Inside pages of the program featured some of the "Ziegfeld Beauties" appearing in the show. (Playbill)
Back in the day some entrepreneurial types would kill a large whale, stuff it full of sawdust and formaldehyde, and then take it on the road to parade in front of gawkers with spare nickels in their pockets. E.B. White observed the fate of one such specimen:
YES, THIS WAS A THING…Before the days of Jacques Cousteau and Animal Planet, this is how some folks got their first and likely only look at a real whale, even if it was pumped full of sawdust and formaldehyde.
This small back page ad invited New Yorkers to the cooling breezes atop the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn Heights, once referred to as the "Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn"…
Its rooftop restaurant — the Marine Roof — was a famous hangout. When the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series in 1955, this is where they celebrated…
(brownstoner.com)
…Dr. Seuss was still making a living illustrating advertisements for Flit insecticide…
…"my eyes are up here"…says the woman who uses Coty brand lipstick…
…on to our cartoonists, we have Garrett Price also examining the challenges of playing Ping-Pong…
…Perry Barlow was at the seaside with a precocious beach-goer…
…Carl Rose showed us a Boy Scout after his encounter with the Red Menace…
…Kemp Starrett weighed the advantages of air travel…
…Otto Soglow surprised us with this undercover operation…
…and we end with James Thurber, and the price of literary fame…
Next Time: The Black Eagle…
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In the days before air conditioning, New Yorkers took to the higher rooftops in the city to escape the summer heat and reconnect with familiar entertainers.
June 6, 1931 cover by Theodore Haupt. The title image is a detail from a Sept. 5, 1970 cover by Arthur Getz.
Among those reconnecting was Lois Long, who had abandoned her nightlife column "Tables for Two" the previous year but revived it in the June 6, 1931 issue, perhaps in reaction to the "boundless trouble" that had marched into her "quiet life," namely her bitter divorce that month from cartoonist Peter Arno. Soon to be single again, Long dusted off her "Table" for another night out.
PRE-AC…As far back as the Gilded Age of the 19th century New Yorkers escaped the summer heat by seeking entertainment on one of the city's rooftop gardens. Pictured is the Paradise roof garden atop Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre, 1901. (MCNY)
THE BUCK STARTS HERE…It wasn't a rooftop, but the Central Park Casino was a cool retreat from city streets, especially for Mayor Jimmy Walker, who conducted much of city business there (much of it shady). After reform-minded Mayor Fiorello La Guardia replaced Walker in 1934, he had the place torn down. (New York City Parks Photo Archive)
I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT…Mayor Jimmy Walker and his mistress, showgirl Betty Compton, were often the last to leave the Casino in the wee hours of the morning, dancing in the black-glass ballroom (above) to the Leo Reisman Orchestra. (drivingfordeco.com)
Higher up in the city, Long also paid a visit to the elegant rooftop of the St. Regis, designed by the famed architect and theatrical designer Joseph Urban…
DAZZLING…The St. Regis rooftop, designed by Joseph Urban.
ANOTHER VIEW of the St. Regis rooftop as illustrated in the July 7, 1928 issue of the New Yorker by Alice Harvey.
Long also visited the roof of the 42-story Hotel Pierre. The New York Sun described the top two floors as "decorated to resemble the interior of a zeppelin cabin."
THE COOLEST…Top of the Hotel Pierre. A popular summer ballroom in the years before air-conditioning, the Pierre advertised itself as having "the highest and coolest hotel roof in Manhattan." (NYT)
If you were in the mood for a little crooning, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees were taking in the breeze atop the Hotel Pennsylvania, per this ad in the back pages of the June 6 New Yorker…
Advertisers must have been paying attention to Long's column, because the back pages of the following issue (June 13) had plenty of ads touting various rooftops…
Long also sampled the offerings of less savory venues, such as the Club Argonaut, which was apparently frequented by mobsters…
NOT AMUSED…Lois Long didn't care for the antics of Gene Malin (center, and inset) who performed in front of a tough-looking crowd at the Club Argonaut. A popular drag artist who helped ignite the "Pansy Craze" in the 1920s and 30s, Malin was one of the first openly gay performers in Prohibition-era speakeasy culture. His career ended abruptly at age 25 in a car accident. (Pinterest)
Sexy Soviet Tractors
One place you could find an early form of air conditioning was at the movies (critic John Mosher referred to these theatres as "iced), and no doubt many lowered their cinematic standards just to get a few hours respite from the heat. For some unknown reason the Central Theatre thought it could entice audiences not with air-conditioning, but with a Soviet propaganda film titled The Five-Year Plan.
STAY CALM AND CARRY ON…Soviet poster for The Five Year Plan (1930), and a 1930 image of the Volograd (Stalingrad) tractor factory. You wonder how many of those blokes got wiped out by Stalin's purges, or by the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43. (Wikipedia)
Laughing at Death
A couple of posts ago I wrote about a very public gun battle that brought diminutive killer Frances Crowley to justice ("The Short Life of Two-Gun Crowley"). In the June 6 installment of "A Reporter at Large," Morris Markey recounted the courtroom scene where the 18-year-old Crowley winked at girls and nonchalantly chewed his gum as judge and jury determined his fate.
OH WELL…Frances Crowley's 16-year-old girlfriend, Helen Walsh, left, was positively bored during the trial that would send her beau to Sing Sing's electric chair. Crowley himself (shown above at the trial) seemed to be amused by the proceedings, and enjoyed the attention. (NY Daily News)
Markey also noted the unseemly behavior of Crowley's 16-year-old girlfriend, Helen Walsh, who seemed bored by the whole thing. "She was not a creature of your world or of mine," wrote Markey, who noted at one point that she put her hands to her face "to conceal a faint smile that sprang from some incalculable amusement within her." Markey offered this sample of Walsh's questioning.
Summer Frost
Novelist and poet Raymond Holden penned a profile of famed poet Robert Frost, who among things apparently enjoyed apples and a bit of gossip. A brief excerpt:
Dead Ball
E. B. White lamented in his "Notes and Comment" the changes to the official golf ball, which was to be made slower in a time when Depression-weary businessmen could use a little lift:
GET 'EM WHILE THEY LAST…This 1930 golf ball, signed by golf legend Bobby Jones, can be yours for $15,000 on eBay.
Gender-bending trends in clothing continued from the 1920s with flowing trousers for women (unthinkable a decade earlier)…
…and beach pajamas for men and women alike…
…Buick dialed up a patrician vibe with this ad that suggested a posh boy might be transported in one by the family's driver…
…and this might be one of the first ads that linked cigarette smoking to the myth of the Western cowboy…
…on to our cartoons, we begin out in the country with Perry Barlow…
…and Kemp Starrett, with this charming bucolic scene…
…back in the drawing room, we have this canine encounter from Leonard Dove…
…Helen Hokinson explored the violent side of bridge…
…Barbara Shermund went into the garden to sample the trials of the rich…
…Carl Rose pondered the art of grammar in crowded places…
…Chon Day gave us yet another take on the familiar boss vs secretary trope…
…and Gardner Rea gets the last laugh with this hapless prodigal son…
Next Time: A Star is Born…
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The Irish American gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond was often referred to as the "clay pigeon of the underworld" due to surviving several attempts on his life.
Nov. 1, 1930 cover by Rea Irvin.
In his "Reporter at Large" column, Morris Markey checked up on the fleet-footed bootlegger, adored by the public for his various brushes with the law and escapes from sure death. In his opening paragraph, Markey referred to one of the attempts on Diamond's life: On October 12, 1930, he survived being shot five times at Manhattan's Hotel Monticello:
Markey's column attempted to remove some of the glamour from Diamond's flamboyant life, a life that would be cut short about a year later in an Albany rooming house…
OUT WITH THE BOYS…Legs Diamond leaves the federal court in New York with his attorney and a couple of cronies on Aug. 8, 1931, after being convicted of owning an unlicensed still and conspiring to violate Prohibition laws. (digitalcommonwealth.org)
BEDFELLOWS…Legs Diamond had a number of mistresses, but the best known was Marion "Kiki" Roberts, who was with Diamond shortly before he was slain. (The Mob Museum/Pinterest)
DEADLY TRIO…Clockwise, from top left, Legs Diamond is comforted by his wife, Alice Kenny Diamond, after being shot three times at a roadhouse near Cairo, NY, on April 27, 1931. His enemies finally succeeded in killing him on Dec. 18, 1931, shooting him three times in the back of the head in an Albany rooming house. Alice would be shot and killed less than two years later, possibly by Diamond's enemies to keep her quiet. And sadly, the New Yorker's "Reporter at Large" columnist Morris Markey would also meet a violent end, dying of a gunshot wound to the head in 1950. Whether it was by his hand or another's, it was never determined. (Albany Archives/NY Times)
An afternote: Enemies would finally catch up to Legs Diamond and kill him on Dec. 18, 1931. Diamond's wife, Alice Kenny Diamond, would be shot and killed less than two years later. Diamond's mistress and former Ziegfeld Follies performer Marion "Kiki" Roberts would return to the stage and cash in on her notoriety. In 1937 it was reported she was the big draw in a touring "Crazy Quilt" burlesque revue. And according to the writer William Kennedy, who wrote about Diamond in his 1975 novel Legs, the last record of Kiki Roberts was in Boston in the 1940s, where "she was still appearing as 'Jack (Legs) Diamond's Lovely Light o' Love.' "
Here is newsreel footage of Diamond's mistress Marion "Kiki" Roberts, shortly after the gangster's death. In this brief interview with a Boston reporter (and with her mother at her side) Roberts advises girls to "live good clean lives and obey their parents wishes." Note how it appears she is reading from cue cards.
A precursor to the helicopter, the autogyro was considered by many to be the next logical step in aircraft development, and especially in the development of smaller craft that could serve as safe, affordable transportation options for commuters. The New Yorker's E.B. White, an aviation enthusiast, demonstrated to readers the wonders of this aircraft:
EASY AS PIE…A Cierva Autogiro C30 takes flight circa 1933. (findmypast.co.uk)
Baker's Big Show
Nineteen-year-old American-born French entertainer Josephine Baker became an instant symbol of Jazz Age Paris when she starred in La Revue Nègre in October 1925. Her erotic dance routines wowed Paris audiences, and she quickly moved on to the famed Folies Bergère. In 1930 she opened a new show at the Casino de Paris that also featured her pet cheetah, Chiquita. The New Yorker's Janet Flanner was there to take it all in:
HEAR THE THUNDER…Nineteen-year-old Josephine Baker took Paris by storm when she appeared in La Revue Nègre at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in October 1925. (harleminmontmartre.paris/artphotolimited.com)
HEAR ME ROAR…The New Yorker's Janet Flanner was wowed by Josephine Baker's newest show at the Casino de Paris that also featured her pet cheetah, Chiquita. (pictorem.com/vam.ac.uk/artphotolimited.com)
Grim Reminder
Despite the deepening Depression across the country, few mentions of it were made in the pages of the New Yorker. Howard Brubaker, in his "Of All Things" column, offered this not-so-gentle reminder:
We feature Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, a Swiss-born American socialite shilling for Pond's cold cream. At the time of this ad she was the mother of six-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt (who would become a famous fashion designer and artist and the mother of CNN's Anderson Cooper)…
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRLS…Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and her husband, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt with daughter Gloria, circa 1924-25. Reginald died in 1925, and a famous custody battle over little Gloria (who recently died at age 95) would take place in 1934. At right, portrait of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt by Dorothy Wilding, 1933. (Perkins Library, Duke University)
…the makers of Ybry lipstick apparently did not have the budget to garner a patrician endorsement, so they settled for this illustration by New Yorker cartoonist Barney Tobey…
…and we have another lovely color ad from R.J. Reynolds, once again linking cigarettes to athletic prowess…
…on to our cartoons, we mark election season with Carl Rose…
…Barbara Shermund explored the generation gap…
…Peter Arno gathered his sugar daddies for a game of chess…
…Kemp Starrett introduced us to an unlikely life of the party…
…Alan Dunn examined the influences of popular cinema…
…Mary Petty gave us an Ivy League perspective of the Great Depression…
…and Arno again, with a cartoon that was featured along with the New Yorker's "Wayward Press" column…
Next Time: Body and Soul…
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The Woes of Mr. Monroe
Whether probing the battle of sexes or exposing the secret lives of daydreamers like Walter Mitty, James Thurber (pictured above) had a knack for revealing the frustrations and various tics that plagued ordinary people.
Aug. 9, 1930 cover by Rea Irvin.
That included the fictional John Monroe, whom Thurber placed in various awkward situations in a series of humorous stories, including this encounter with some moving men that required the rather inept Monroe to make a series of decisions usually left to his wife, Ellen. Some excerpts from the Aug. 9 issue:
ODD COUPLES…Sue Randall, left, and Orson Bean portrayed John and Ellen Monroe on a 1961 episode of The DuPont Show with June Allyson…
…a decade later, William Windom, left, and Joan Hotchkis portrayed John and Ellen Monroe on the Thurber-inspired (and award-winning) NBC comedy My World and Welcome to It (1969-70). (Wikipedia/Amazon)
Beats the Heat
In the hot August of 1930, film critic John Mosher probably found the air-conditioned theaters to be the best feature of the cinema, given the generally mediocre quality of the summer movies. Mosher also noted the new trend of adapting Broadway plays to the screen, a practice that continues to this day.
THE SOUND OF 1930…Joan Crawford (left) examines a boom microphone on the set of Our Blushing Brides. Although most films were produced with sound in 1930, it was still something of a novelty to actors who began their careers in the silent era; at right, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Anita Page in Little Accident. (IMDB)
Well who doesn't love a whole chicken in jar, ready to "fry or cream" in just 20 minutes? This was actually a big deal in 1930, given that chicken dinners were not as common back in the days before factory farms and Chick-fil-A…
…the makers of Marlboro cigarettes abandoned their essay and penmanship contests and took another direction with their drab, back-page ads, appealing to a vague sense of status in the prospective smoker…
…this sad little bottom-of-the-page ad enticed readers to take a drive in the country to see Texas Guinan and her "Famous Gang" still whooping it up like it was 1925. The venture was short-lived…
…on to our cartoons, Peter Arno looked in on nightlife in the city…
…William Crawford Galbraith took in an outdoor concert…
…Ralph Barton offered his comic skills to a glimpse of domestic life…
…Garrett Price observed some boaters on an outing that would be frowned upon today (or at least I hope so)…
…and Constantin Alajalov examined the pitfalls of modern art…
Speaking of art, we move on the Aug. 16, 1930 issue…
Aug. 16, 1930 cover by Barney Tobey.
…in which Robert Benchley has fun with the foibles of the art world…
In his "Reporter at Large" column, Morris Markey looked in on the working world of one chain-smoking ambulance driver…some excerpts…
SOMEONE NEEDS TO CLEAN THIS UP…Clockwise, from top left, a 1930s Flexible ambulance and its rather cramped interior; scene of a 1933 Manhattan murder. (coachbuilt.com/NY Daily News)
Hard to believe that zippers were a novel invention just 90 years ago…in this ad from the leading manufacturer, Talon, this "hookless" wonder was still referred to as a "slide fastener"…
…the Chrysler Corporation was never the biggest car company in America, but it was always known as a leader in both technology and design, as in these graceful lines that flowed over its new "Straight Eight" models…
…the makers of Camel cigarettes continued to push their product as a sound way to stay fit and trim…
…in the cartoons for Aug. 16, this drawing by Peter Arno appeared for the fifth time in the magazine, always with a different caption (the others appeared in three consecutive issues — June 5, 12 and 19, and on Aug. 2, 1930)…
…William Crawford Galbraith detected some wet vs. dry tension at the country club…
…Ralph Barton returned with another full-page illustration of a weekend domestic scene…
…Garrett Price found confusion in a lengthy queue…
…and Kemp Starrett gave us a bird's eye view of a future New Yorker…
Next Time: Hell's Angels…
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US states, leery of Russia malware, re-examine cybersecurity
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility's laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers.
The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont's two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
A Burlington Electric Department spokesman said federal officials have told company officials the threat was not unique to them.
The Department of Homeland Security said it had no information indicating the power grid was penetrated in the cyber invasion. A spokesman wouldn't say whether any other utilities, organizations or entities had reported similar malware on their systems but said any such information would be confidential.
Officials in New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut said they're more closely monitoring state and utility networks for anything suspicious.
"We have not detected any activity matching the reported malware at this time," Connecticut governor's office spokesman Chris Collibee said.
New Jersey's homeland security director said the state had no reports of malicious activity associated with Grizzly Steppe at major utility systems.
In New York, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed all state agencies to re-examine their computer systems for security breaches. Nothing had been found.
An attack on a U.S. power grid has long been a nightmare scenario for top U.S. officials. The National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers have previously warned it's not a matter of if but when attackers target U.S. power systems.
On Dec. 23, 2015, a highly sophisticated cyberattack on the power grid in Ukraine hit three regional electronic power distribution companies, blacking out more than 225,000 customers.
Democratic Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said his administration has been in touch with the federal government and the state's utilities. He said people should be "alarmed and outraged" that Russia "has been attempting to hack our electric grid, which we rely upon to support our quality-of-life, economy, health and safety."
Burlington Electric noted it wasn't connected to the grid system and didn't explain how the malware got onto the computer.
The company said U.S. government authorities alerted American utilities about the malware code Thursday in a report released when Democratic President Barack Obama announced the U.S. response to election hacking. Obama ordered sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies, closed two Russian compounds and expelled 35 diplomats the U.S. said were spies.
A Russian state television channel on Saturday sought to discredit reports linking the malware to the Kremlin.
If Russia is found to be connected to widespread hacking of U.S. utilities, it will make it more difficult for Republican President-elect Donald Trump to soften anti-Russian sentiment on Capitol Hill, where hearings on hacking are scheduled next week.
Rep. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, said the incident proves Obama's response was warranted.
"This attack shows how rampant Russian hacking is. It's systemic, relentless, predatory," Welch said in a statement. "They will hack everywhere, even Vermont, in pursuit of opportunities to disrupt our country."
The Washington Post first reported on the Vermont utility's malware discovery.
The Rossiya state television channel said the Post provided no confirmation Russia was involved. It said the Post report spoke only about the identification of malicious software code that Washington previously concluded had been used by the Russian intelligence services in the cyberattack on U.S. political institutions.
In a report released Thursday, Homeland Security and the FBI provided technical details about the tools and infrastructure they say Russian civilian and military intelligence services have used to compromise and exploit networks "associated with the U.S. election as well as a range of U.S. government, political and private sector entities."
"This activity by the Russian civilian and military intelligence services is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and its citizens," the report said.
Associated Press writers Deb Riechmann in Washington, Jacob Pearson in New York, Jennifer McDermott in Providence, Rhode Island, Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, and Christina Paciolla in Philadelphia contributed to this report.


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Marc Muñoz, "The Filipino-Wrecking Machine" Graces ABS-CBN and UFC's Balls Channel!
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Filipino-American and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight star Mark "The Filipino Wrecking Machine" Muñoz arrived in Manila last weekend to visit the Philippines for the first time. ABS-CBN and Balls Channel, home of the UFC, hosted a breakfast gathering for the UFC middleweight standout on Monday morning which was also attended by sportswriters and TV reporters.
Muñoz wholeheartedly thanked his fellow Filipinos for supporting his mixed martial arts career and the UFC. He also noted the network's efforts in bringing the UFC and the sport of mixed martial arts closer to Filipino hearts.
Included in Muñoz's itinerary is a visit to his parents' respective hometowns, which he has never done due to his busy schedule brought by his emerging career in the UFC.
"I just love my culture man. I'm excited to finally come home to my roots," he said.
It can be recalled that he incurred an unfortunate elbow injury recently that forced him to pull out of a main event fight against Chael Sonnen for the top middleweight contender spot. While recovering from the subsequent surgery to his elbow, Muñoz now has the chance to explore his Filipino roots. Mark's mother grew up in Sta.Ana, Manila while his father, a serviceman in the US Navy, hails from Pasay City.
Munoz's UFC comeback is tentatively set in July. When he returns to the United States on Wednesday, he'll resume therapy on his surgically repaired elbow.
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Blatantly steal er, copy Stie's awesome idea that she stole borrowed from Alissa and posted about last year (but I was too lazy to make them). Thankfully, Stie posted a tutorial this year in plenty of time for me to get them ready for Cupid's delivery. Of course, I didn't ask Annelise what she would like to make for her, you know, own valentines to pass out to, you know, her friends. Control freak much?
Hustle Annelise outside to snap photos before the rain hits. Decide to draw hearts (she helped with this part) with sidewalk chalk to make a slightly more festive background on the concrete. Ignore her confusion about why you are making her stand with her arm raised and hand clenched in a fist and take at least 30-40 snaps in the hopes of getting a keeper or two.
Add valentine greetings with your favorite photo editing program. I used Picasa since I was planning on ordering prints through Walgreens to pick up in the store and Photoshop Elements still makes me cry. Tip: more organized people might want to take their photo more than four days before the holiday in order to take advantage of mail order benefits (you can get heavier paper that way). However, I did get to take advantage of a Walgreens promo code and got 50 prints for $4.75, so YAY! for that.
After picking up the photos from Walgreens, obsess for several minutes over the fact that the last letter of your sweet daughter's extremely long name has been almost cut off. Consider adjusting photo and re-ordering for a few more minutes. Eventually come to your senses and realize these will be given to children, who know her name anyway, and won't (fingers crossed) notice or care. Pat yourself on the back for talking said self off the irrational ledge once again.
Use an Exact-O knife (be careful, my friends) and a cutting mat to cut a small half circle above and below your subject's clenched fist. I realize now I should have had Annelise hold her fist up a bit higher, but this still worked.
Insert favorite lollypop into the opening and voila, you have now successfully created copied the easiest, coolest valentines evAH.
You can put a piece of tape across the opening in the back if you'd like to secure the lolly, but it's fine either way.
While I worked on the dangerous cutting part, Annelise participated in the making of, you know, her valentines, by writing names and stamping the envelopes (we used greeting card size).
So, in a way, all in all, it was a team effort, right? Right??
****I know my partial tutorial might be late for this year's valentines, but file it away in your brain for next year, m'kay?
They turned out fabulous! Well done, you! I am so happy you made them. I love the hearts on the sidewalk idea. So, so clever.
Holly, those are the cutest things ever! Precious!!
Thanks for generously sharing your idea Christie!! You and Alissa are clever geniuses!
Thanks Heather, um...did y'all check your mail yet????
Haha - we made these too!! I was laughing so hard with all the steps. I'll have to post Max's version, he wore his Indiana Jones hat for it. I LOVE your chalk heart idea! So cute.
I did this too! They turned out so cute...I love your natural background!!