The Ritz Carltons features illustrations by Rea Irvin, inventor of the New Yorker’s signature character, Eustace Tilley; Heart in a Hurricane features illustrations by Ralph Barton, whose work graced New Yorker covers nearly as often as Irvin’s and Peter Arno’s in the Twenties. And both bo...
WhenNew YorkercartoonistPeter Arnohooked up with his colleague, nightlife columnistLois Long,it was like twisting together two sticks of dynamite. April 18, 1930 cover byCharles Donelan,his only cover forThe New Yorker. See more about the artist at the end of this post. Married in 1927, the...
In May 1928 Long had been married for about nine months to colleague and cartoonistPeter Arno, who was also a regular fixture of the nightclub scene. But in Long’s column for May 5, 1928, one can detect a bit of weariness setting in, the 27-year-old sensing the next generation didn...
Richard Lockridge(1898–1982) was a reporter forTheNew York Sunwhen he began submitting comic sketches toTheNew Yorkersuch the one excerpted below. Later sketches would include the characters Mr. and Mrs. North. In the late 1930s Lockridge would collaborate with his wife,Frances Louise Davis,on...
Kay Boylewas thirty and still cutting her teeth as a writer and political activist whenThe New Yorkerpublished her short story “Black Boy,” told through an unnamed narrator who recalls a childhood visit to the seaside. May 14, 1930 cover byBela Dankovsky. ...
By the dawn of 1931 few were in the mood for a party, including the 29-year-old Long, who was mother to a toddler and would soon divorce husband and New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. But it wasn’t motherhood or a tempestuous marriage that soured Long on the party scene. Rather, blam...
…New YorkercartoonistJohn Held Jr.picked up some extra bucks by designing this ad for Chase and Sanborn’s… …and on to our other cartoonists/illustrators,Reginald Marshwrapped this busy dance hall scene around a section of “The Talk of the Town”… ...
Director Peter Yates Starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle Scott’s Review #1,151 Reviewed June 11, 2021 Grade: B+ Borrowing heavily from the standard cop thriller films that emerged during the early 1970s but containing a unique cynicism and a point of view all its own, The Friends of Eddie...
…and we end withRea Irvin, who gave us what I believe was a first inThe New Yorker—a cartoon character breaking the fourth wall… …by the way, M.F.H. stands for Master of Fox Hounds…I had to look it up. Next Time:Through a Glass Darkly… ...