…Jack Markow had some bad news for two sign painters (the caption size is increased for readability)… …and we close with Peter Arno, and the winner of most original Halloween costume… …and before I go…this is being posted on Halloween, 2023, so here are a few images from 1934 to...
Moving on to the tenth anniversary issue, we find E.B. White recalling the world of The New Yorker’s first days. Given the massive economic and societal shifts that occurred from 1925 to 1935, those first days seemed distant to White, who felt old, “not in years but events.” DAYS ...
This baffling ensemble drama delivers an important message — the online world ain’t all it’s cracked up to be — in all the most tiresome ways. Sandler plays a husband trapped in a loveless marriage who begins seeking affection online; his is one of several cautionary tales about the hor...
…Jack Markow had some bad news for two sign painters (the caption size is increased for readability)… …and we close with Peter Arno, and the winner of most original Halloween costume… …and before I go…this is being posted on Halloween, 2023, so here are a few images from 1934 to...
Stokowski had the distinct honor of being satirized in a 1949Looney Tunescartoon, “Long-Haired Hare,” in which Bugs Bunny disguised himself as the conductor and entered the stage to the astonished whispers of the orchestra…Leopold! Leopold!… ...
…and we close withJack Markow, and the demands of Hollywood life… Next Time:Music in the Air… House & Home The New Yorker’sart and architectural criticLewis Mumfordfound much to dislike about urban life, from pretentious ornamentation to the gigantic scale of skyscrapers popping up all over...
…Jack Markowhad some bad news for two sign painters (the caption size is increased for readability)… …and we close withPeter Arno, and the winner of most original Halloween costume… …and before I go…this is being posted on Halloween, 2023, so here are a few images from 1934 to ...
…Jack Markow had some bad news for two sign painters (the caption size is increased for readability)… …and we close with Peter Arno, and the winner of most original Halloween costume… …and before I go…this is being posted on Halloween, 2023, so here are a few images from 1934 to...
…Jack Markow had some bad news for two sign painters (the caption size is increased for readability)… …and we close with Peter Arno, and the winner of most original Halloween costume… …and before I go…this is being posted on Halloween, 2023, so here are a few images from 1934 to...
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT…In his third installment of the world of circus freaks,Alva Johnstonreferenced the following performers, clockwise, from top left: circus giantJack Earle;Lady Little, aka “Anita The Doll Lady,” on a 1918 postcard that described her as “26 inches high, 36 years...