Posted on November 9, 2022Categories advertising, celebrities, cinema, Great Depression, New Yorker cartoons, prohibition, The New Yorker MagazineTags Alexander Korda, Charles Laughton, Edward Angly, Ernest Boyd, Gardner Rea, Harry Brown, Irene Castle, James Thurber, John Mosher, Leonora Hughes, Loi...
was working as a bellboy at the New Yorker Hotel when he was discovered by an advertising executive in 1933. Apparently the exec had Roventini shout the line “Call for Philip Morris!” and learned the bellboy could repeatedly, and on cue, vocalize a perfect B-flat tone. Representing the...
READY FOR HER CLOSEUP…Clockwise, from top left, in one of cinema’s most iconic scenes, Queen Christina (Greta Garbo) stands as a silent figurehead at the bow of a ship as the camera moves in for a tight close-up; Garbo with co-star and real-life romantic partnerJohn Gilbert—it wa...
June 3, 1933 cover byAdolph K. Kronengold. …where we appropriately look to the skyline, which was givingLewis Mumforda crick in the neck… THAT’LL DO…Lewis Mumfordwas not a fan of giant skyscrapers, but when the architects of the Empire State Building turned their attention to the Ins...