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...
Some of the kills could be included in the best of the torture-horror franchise, Saw (2004), as they are very twisted and carved in brutality. A supermodel is disfigured after being given a choice to call for help or overdose on pills, representing pride. A man is forced to consume fo...
Richard Lockridge (1898–1982) was a reporter for The New York Sun when he began submitting comic sketches to The New Yorker such 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 Lou...
The New Yorkerwas slow to embrace sound—in reviews of early talkies, criticJohn Mosherfound the technology stultifying in both dialogue and action, but as equipment and techniques improved he came to embrace the new medium.E.B. White, however, still missed the silent theatre, and the strains...
Perhaps writing this is my come-to-Jesus-get-a-clue kick in the rear. And the good news is there are many folks like my friend who dropped everything to drive a dying cat to the vet clinic. There are those who give me hope. Thank you. Horror Stories Little Shop of Horrors has ...
TheNew YorkCrossword: ‘The Wheel Deal’ 55-Down: Drive the country off a cliff, say. ByMatt Gaffney Breaking Up With My In-Laws Over Immigration My father-in-law asked if the reason I cared so much was because I was “illegal” myself. ...
TheNew Yorkertook notice of Crawford in its review ofAcross to Singapore, the critic O.C. noting that Crawford “gets prettier in every picture”… Another film released later in 1928,Our Dancing Daughters,would make Crawford a star and a symbol of the liberated, 1920s flapper. Even the wr...
There was a New Yorker connection to Monkey Business— S. J. Perelman‚ a frequent contributor of humorous shorts to the magazine, was one of the screenwriters for the film. And it just so happens that one of Perelman’s shorts was in the Oct. 17 issue, and it was a doozy… MAKE...
With the 1929 stock market crash on the horizon, it is instructive to read these little “Talk” items and understand that, then as now, we have no clue when the big one is coming… * * * Over at the Polo Grounds As I’ve previously noted, The New Yorker in the 1920s covered ...