Articles from 1938
Attached is a translation of the text of the Franco-German declaration signed in Paris on December 6, 1938.
Click here to read about the Hitler-Stalin Non-Aggression Pact.
The French-German Non-Aggression Agreement (Current History, 1938) Read More »
To the colossal giant that is China, furious little Japan delivered a one-two punch last week. Small divisions of the Emperor’s troops first took Canton and then Hankow. So easily did both fall that Britons in Hong Kong declared darkly:’It looks like dirty work.’
Japan On The March (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938) Read More »
With the 1938 merging of Austria with Hitler’s Germany came the Nazi coercion of Austrian Christianity. One of the first clerics to rebel against their repression was Cardinal Theodor Innitzer (1875 – 1955) of Vienna who made clear his outrage in a series of open letters criticizing the various Nazi restrictions involving marriage and the removal of nuns and priests from various schools and hospitals.
Cardinal Innitzer Stands Up (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938) Read More »
A dreary news story relaying the violent end that came to one R.C. Williams of Ruston, Louisiana.
‘Lynching No. 3” (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938) Read More »
Here is an article that discusses the surprising relevance that the music of Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) was playing in the American music world of the 1930s.
Click here to read about Irving Berlin’s theatrical production during W.W. I…
Irving Berlin (Stage Magazine, 1938) Read More »
The American writer Willis Gordon Brown recalled his days as a fighter pilot with the R.F.C. and the curious series of crashes that lead to the discovery of a German saboteur within their midst.
To the Germans this man was a highly respected hero giving his life for the fatherland; to us he became a rat of the lowest order.
A Saboteur in the Royal Flying Corps (Rob Wagner’s Script, 1938) Read More »
If you’ve been wondering how the Academy Awards came to be known more popularly as Oscar and you think that the answer simply has to be bathed in an endless amount of Hollywood Glamour, involving a boat-load beautifully tailored, charming and overly talented matinee idols, you’d better hit the ‘ol back browser button now.
How the Academy Award Got Nicknamed ‘Oscar’ (Stage Magazine, 1938) Read More »
Artist Gilbert Wilson conducted this interview with American socialist cartoonist Art Young (1866 – 1943) which appeared in DIRECTION MAGAZINE during the summer of 1938. In the fullness of time, Art Young has come to be recognized as something of a demi-god in the American poison pen pantheon of graphic satirists and no study of Twentieth Century political cartoons is complete without him:
Art Young has never adopted the policy of tearing into his foe (which is capitalism) with tooth and claw. It simply isn’t his way. He just isn’t capable of hating anyone or anything badly enough to get that angry.
Isn’t it rather the duty of a good radical, as Lenin said, ‘patiently to explain’?
In 1887 the NEW YORK TIMES reviewed the first english edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…
Leftist Cartoonist Art Young (Direction Magazine, 1938) Read More »
When England and France yielded to Germany in the Munich Agreement of last September, a significant change took place. The balance of power in Europe shifted from the democracies to the dictatorships… [and] the United States had to stop thinking of England and France as America’s ‘first line of defense’ in the time of a European war.
The Consequences of the Munich Agreement (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938) Read More »
A telegraph from Hollywood costume designer Edith Head (1897 – 1981) to the editorial offices of PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE listing various highlights of the 1938 Paris fashion scene. Not surprisingly, it reads like a telegram:
Paris says:
• Long waistlines, short flared skirts, fitted bodices, tweeds combines with velvet, warm colors…
• Hair up in pompadours piles of curls and fringe bangs.
• Braid and embroidery galore lace and ribbon trimmings loads of jewelry mostly massive.
• Skirts here short and not too many pleats more slim skirts with slight flare.
The great Hollywood modiste wrote in this odd, Tarzan-english for half a page, but by the end one is able to envision the feminine Paris of the late Thirties.
Recommended Reading: Edith Head: The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood’s Greatest Costume Designer
Click here to read about physical perfection during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Edith Head on Paris Frocks (Photoplay Magazine, 1938) Read More »
