The actress featured in the advertisement, Lenore Ulric, was considered one of the American theater’s top stars. Born in 1892 as Lenore Ulrich in New Ulm, Minnesota, she got her start on stage when she was still a teen, a protégé of the famed David Belasco. Though she primarily became...
White noted that smaller venues like the Knickerbocker, with their own distinct character and clientele, were falling victim to big theater-owning corporations that introduced more homogeneity into the play-going scene. In White’s estimation just two old-timers remained: Both buildings still stand. ...
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…Pond’s continued to featured the rich and famous, women who apparently defied age itself with a few dabs of cold cream…the ad featuredAlice Erdman, the wife of politician and theater producerFrancis Cleveland(President Grover Cleveland’s son) and Long Island society mavenXenia Georgievnaof ...
Theater was changing in other ways too. In the late 19th and early 20th century audiences patronized various playhouses based more on their reputation and tradition than on a particular play.E.B. White,in the “Talk of the Town” noted the imminent passing of one such house, the Knickerbock...
The first installment of the profile was accompanied by aCyrus Baldridgeportrait of the president (left), but the final two installments featured a less-than-flatteringAbe Birnbaumrendering that first appeared inTheNew Yorkerin the March 2, 1929 issue: ...
During Hemingway’s Paris years Parker actually took a boat with him to France (in 1926, along with mutual friendRobert Benchley) and so got a firsthand taste of his bohemian adventures. By the timeTheNew Yorkerprofiled Hemingway, the Jazz Age was dead and Paris’s so-called “Lost Genera...
The 1926 Pinaud cosmetics factory designed byEly Jacques KahnandAlbert-Buchmanwas poised to get a three-story addition (by Kahn) constructed entirely of glass block, but the market crash likely killed the project. The Depression probably didn’t help Wright’s project either, which would have co...
…the end of Prohibition saw the rapid expansion of the chain of Longchamps restaurants in New York City…in the 1930s the company hired top modernist decorators and architects (Winold ReissandEly Jacques Kahn, among others) to create some of New York’s most glamorous interiors… ...
…Miguel Covarrubias contributed to the theater review section… …James Thurber entertained a house guest… …George Price was still up in the air… …Helen Hokinson took a spin with a celebrity look-alike… …and Barbara Shermund offered another glimpse into the life of a modern woman… …...