Lois Long was only 29 years old when she wrote her “Doldrums” series for The New Yorker, but the chronicler of Jazz Age nightlife who once epitomized the flapper lifestyle felt much older given how much the world had changed in just a few short years. She was particularly appalled by ...
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(Image and text courtesy MoMA) MODEST BEGINNINGS…MoMA’s first gallery spaces on the 12th floor of the Heckscher Building were indeed modest, as these photos of the first exhibition attest. (MoMA) HOW THEY LOOKED IN COLOR…Works featured in MoMA’s first exhibition included The Bedroom (1889...
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…I would addEdward Hopper, John Sloan, Lyonel Feininger,andRockwell Kent(also displayed at the exhibition) but then again, I have the advantage of hindsight… * * * From Our Advertisers We have moreNew Yorkercartoonists augmenting their income through advertising, including (once again)Rea Irvi...
…or for quieter times, Atwater Kent encouraged folks to gather ’round the radio on a lazy afternoon and look positively bored to death… …while Dodge Boats encouraged readers to join the more exhilarating world of life on the water… Our final color ad comes from the makers of Jantzen sw...
…the folks at Alcoa Aluminum were sticking with a more traditional look, even though they were marketing a very modern aluminum chair…you don’t see these much anymore…I mostly remember them reposing in rumpus rooms or church basements… ...
CriticJohn Mosherwas no fan ofJean Harlow’s,but he did acknowledge her box office appeal, and that fans eagerly awaited the Blonde Bombshell’s next picture,The Girl from Missouri…with its “usual plot of a gold-digger and millionaries.” Mosher also noted that Harlow, along withMae West...
From its beginnings in 1862 until the end of the 19th century, the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store was known to New Yorkers as the “Toy Bazaar,” and by 1929 was something of an institution. As part of a lengthy column featuring ideas for Christmas shoppers,TheNew Yorkeroffered some tips on...