the throngs of women who took to smoking in public in the 1920s and the drinkers who took their activities behind closed doors; and one of the early magazine’s beloved contributors, Ralph Barton, who offered his whimsical take on the news in “The Graphic Section” as well as in other...
the throngs of women who took to smoking in public in the 1920s and the drinkers who took their activities behind closed doors; and one of the early magazine’s beloved contributors, Ralph Barton, who offered his whimsical take on the news in “The Graphic Section” as well as in other...
for fans who want to re-live the experience or for those who didn't get to make it to one of her recent arena shows. It's already broken AMC's first-day presales record, besting Spider-Man: No Way Home, and it's made The Exorcist: Believer relinquish its Friday the 13th ...
At times controversial, the New Woman image provided women with opportunities to negotiate new social roles and to promote ideas of equality and freedom that would later become mainstream. Keywords New Woman modernity feminism reform youth mass culture suffrage sexuality gender Subjects...
women, who had stayed ‘shrouded up to the eyes’ until they reached the ship and then appeared the next morning at the public meal ‘unveiled, bareheaded, clad in the latest Parisian traveling fashion and supplied with French novels.” E. L. Butcher cited in Baron,Women’s Awakening, 83...
The majority were in support roles as typists, secretaries and clerks but, during the 1920s and 1930s, a significant number held important posts. As a modern industry, the BBC took a largely progressive approach towards the 'career women' on its staff, many of whom...
Hopefully, this leads to more juice roles from Mahaffey. Azazel Jacobs, who has had modest success on the independent film circuit offers moderate impressive direction but loses me with the addition of not one but two tired seance sequences. A cat inhabiting a dead body and coming to life ...
As enjoyable as Sixteen Candles is I’d list it as the weakest of the Hughes films. It serves as more of a blueprint for the genius he would become. Ringwald carries the film with ease made more impressive since this was one of her first film roles. She infuses Samantha with a blend...
Alms for the Poor Woolworth store heiress Barbara Hutton was one of the richest women in the world in the 1930s, and her lavish lifestyle in the midst of Depression attracted the attention, and the ire, of newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan. In his “Notes and Comment,” E.B. White made ...
A longtime city manager in several roles, in 1930 he was president of the Association Against Prohibition Amendment. According to profile writer Henry Pringle, Curran predicted the end of Prohibition in five years. Happily for the wet side, they would get their wish in just three. A brief ...