Articles from 1933
Hannen Swaffer (1879 – 1962), long-time dead British journalist who once presided as the Grand Pooh-Bah of Fleet Street’s chattering classes declared in this editorial that one by one the war heroes of the past are being debunked and now it is Lawrence’s turn…
Read these various accounts that serve as proof that there is a life after this one.
T.E. Lawrence: Tiresome Literary Celebrity (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
The review of J.O.P. Bland’s China: The Pity of It which was written by Henry Kittredge Norton:
Mr. Bland (1863 – 1945) has known his China for a third of a century and he is convinced that if that unhappy country has moved at all in the last three decades, it has moved backwards…Without relieving the Chinese of their share of the responsibility in the premises, the half-baked liberalism of the west – by which is meant Great Britain and the United States for the most part -is found to be the chief cause of expanding disaster in China…
Available at Amazon: China – The Pity Of It
‘China: The Pity of It” (Saturday Review of Literature, 1933) Read More »
…Peiping Associated Press dispatches tell of a major battle between Japanese and Chinese armies for possession of Chiumenkow Pass in the Great Wall of China. The Pass is one of the most important gateways leading into the rich province of Jehol which, it is reported, Japan purposes to cut off from China and add to Manchukuo…This collision forms the second chapter in the Shanhaikwan dispute, and it comes quickly.
The Battle at the Great Wall (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
One of the summer offerings of 1933 was the stage production of ‘Peace Palace’ by Emil Ludwig (1881 – 1948). Posted here is a review of the production along with a black and white photograph of the cast in full costume and recognizable make-up.
Versailles Treaty Conference Spoofed on Stage (Stage Magazine, 1933) Read More »
This historic article appeared during the opening weeks of Roosevelt’s first term administration announcing that the new president was taking a novel approach in granting various appointments to government positions of leadership by selecting numerous women who had proved their mettle in the fiery furnace of 1920s Democratic party politics.
1924 was a very important year for American women in politics…
A New Deal for Women (The Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
A profile of the twenty-eight year old artist Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988).
Isamu Noguchi (Creative Art, 1933) Read More »
The aggressive ambitions of Japan know no bounds. The occupation of Peiping [Beijing] will lead to further aggression in Shantung and Shansi and other northern provinces, and will result either in the establishment of a new puppet regime in North China.
The Shanghai SHUN PAO, an independent newspaper, bewails the futility of the uncoordinated resistance which has prevailed among China’s forces since the capture of Jehol, and it adds:
The only possibilities now are peace by compromise or a continuance of war. Despite the dangers of the latter course it is the only possible solution, but resistance must be coordinated under an able leader, China must fight or become a second Korea.
The Japanese Drive on Beijing (The Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
Attached is printable fashion editorial by a lifer in the world of 20th Century American fashion, Marian Corey who stood firm on her belief that the Summer of ’33 would stand out as the first season in which the swankiest threads in fashion’s offering would be linen and cotton rather than silk:
Cotton and linen have gone chic on us. Yes we know that you’ve heard this before. Every year for the last three, stylists have become very sentimental, along about March first, on this subject and each year practically everyone has gone right on wearing silk and more silk, just the same. This time, however, things will be different; this is the summer to believe the stylists.
The article is illustrated by six photographs picturing various assorted well-fed loafers of the Palm Beach set.
Linen and Cotton and the Summer of 1933 (Delineator Magazine, 1933) Read More »
