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A Briton on American Prohibition (Current Opinion, 1921)
1921, Current Opinion Magazine, Prohibition History

A Briton on American Prohibition
(Current Opinion, 1921)

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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865 – 1922) was an influential soul back in the day who owned a string of widely-read newspapers. Just months prior to his death, he spent some time stateside and drew some conclusions regarding American Prohibition which were noteworthy:

While in our midst he made up his mind about Prohibition. In his opinion it is a failure… His reasons seem to be that he saw plenty of liquor everywhere he was entertained; that Prohibition encourages hypocrisy in the vision of the law, and that he did not like it anyhow… But America has taken it’s stand and will stick to it.

Theater Intermissions and Prohibition (Vanity Fair, 1919)
1919, Prohibition History, Vanity Fair Magazine

Theater Intermissions and Prohibition
(Vanity Fair, 1919)

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Prohibition has been pretty rough on everybody, but there is no class of people which it has hit so hard as the theater-goers. The Federal Amendment has completely wrecked their evenings. It isn’t so bad while the show is going on; the blow falls between the acts. In happier times the intermissions were the high spots of the evening…

With pin-point accuracy, Vanity Fair was able to identify the new minority-victim class that emerged from America’s unfortunate experiment with Prohibition: Broadway theater enthusiasts (It might be argued that the real victims were American bar tenders, many of whom high-tailed it over to Europe where they established a number of American-style bars).

The attached page from the magazine can be classified as humor and is illustrated with six great sketches by Edith Plummer.

Read other articles from 1919.

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Samuel Goldwyn Article | Samuel Goldwyn Hollywood Founder
1944, Coronet Magazine, Hollywood History, Recent Articles

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

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Screen scribe Sidney Carroll put to paper a serious column about the productive life of Samuel Goldwyn (1879 – 1974) and all that he had accomplished since he co-founded Hollywood (along with Cecil B. De Mille) in 1913:

He has done many remarkable things in 30 years. He has made as many stars as any man in the business; he was the first to make feature-length films; he was the first to bring the great writers to Hollywood… Goldwyn is the greatest maker of motion pictures ever to come out of Hollywood [with the exception of The Goldwyn Follies (1938)].

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letter from king george v to wwi american doughboys
Letters

Britain’s King Welcomes the Doughboys
(April, 1918)

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A colored scan of the widely distributed seventy-word letter that Britain’s King George V wrote to all members of the American military who had stepped on British soil. The letter is dated April, 1918 and was made to appear as though it was from the King’s private stationery; the Windsor Castle letterhead is engraved in scarlet while the cursive body of the letter (in dark gray ink) is beautifully printed below in the conventional manner. It would seem that the California Doughboy who received this particular letter was not impressed; he simply turned it over and addressed a letter to his parents.

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Camouflage: An Invention from Ancient Warfare (The Nation, 1918)
1918, The Nation Magazine, World War One

Camouflage: An Invention from Ancient Warfare
(The Nation, 1918)

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One of the most curious aspects of the Great War that generated a good deal of conversation among the civilian populations was camouflage. Many people believed that camouflage was one of many elements that made that war so terribly different from all other wars. One well-read reader from a respectable American magazine would have non of it: she composed a well researched letter explaining that the need for camouflage preceded the era of industrial warfare and was practiced by the ancient combatants of Greece and Rome as well.

The Aggressive (U.S. Army Study, 1919)
1919, Doughboys, The U.S. Army Study

The Aggressive
(U.S. Army Study, 1919)

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An assortment of opinions gleaned from various interviews with German soldiers who all made remarks about the naked aggressiveness shared by the A.E.F.:

The French would not advance unless sure of gaining their objectives while the American infantry would dash in regardless of all obstacles and that while they gained their objectives they would often do so with heavy loss of life.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne, Reconsidered (Literary Digest, 1917)
1917, Miscellaneous, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Reconsidered
(Literary Digest, 1917)

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The 1917 publication of The life of Algernon Charles Swinburnestyle=border:none, by Edmund Gossestyle=border:none caused much discussion in the literary world:

A bombshell that struck literary England a little past that last mid-century has been re-echoing in the recently published ‘Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne’ by Edmund Gosse. The shell was the volume called ‘Poems and Ballads’ a cursory knowledge of which probably places it in many minds as one of the bad books of literature…

Electronic Teaching Tools | e-Learning History
1958, Education, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

E-Learning in the Fifties
(Pageant Magazine, 1958)

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This article from the late Fifties refers to the educational benefits that existed in the form of tape recordings, television, films and slide shows and what a glorious discovery it was that they came along when they did to aid in the teacher shortages of the time. Today we have decades of studies that show what among these tools has been useful and what has failed.


In the 1940s Color TV was Anticipated as a Tool with Which Art Students Could Learn…

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Chez Poiret: the Hot Social Ticket in the Paris of 1919 (Vogue Magazine, 1919)
1919, Fashion, Recent Articles, Vogue Magazine

Chez Poiret: the Hot Social Ticket in the Paris of 1919
(Vogue Magazine, 1919)

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The post-war publicity machine of French fashion designer Paul Poiret was in fine form when he saw to it that his minions invited the Paris-based correspondent from American VOGUE to his house for a grand fete, seated her comfortably, drink in hand, right on the fifty-yard line in order that she might be better able to report to her handlers back in New York that Paris was back.


The correspondent who was not invited was the fashion journalist from FLAPPER MAGAZINE; American flappers did not approve of Poiret one bit. Click here to read what they thought of him.

The Duke of Windsor Influences (Men's Wear, 1950)
1950, Men's Fashion, Men's Wear Magazine, Recent Articles

The Duke of Windsor Influences
(Men’s Wear, 1950)

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MEN’S WEAR MAGAZINE printed a few paragraphs on the heavy hand that the Duke of Windsor had in the world of manly attire:

No one completely personified English qualities in attire than the Prince of Wales…Whatever he chose to wear was considered correct and in good taste and was accepted by millions of others in America and elsewhere. Following are a few of the styles that can be traced right back to the Duke of Windsor, either because he wore them first or was responsible for their spread…

-they include such fashion innovations as the Panama hat, the spread collar and brown buckskin shoes among others.

More articles about the Duke of Windsor can be found on these pages.

The Business End of Gas Warfare (Literary Digest, 1917)
1917, Poison Gas, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The Business End of Gas Warfare
(Literary Digest, 1917)

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The attached article, How Well Our Chemical Industry Has Been Mobilized for War is an abstract from a 1917 issue of THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE which discussed how readily American chemists embraced their roll after the United States committed itself to the war.


There is much talk of the procurement of potash, toluol and trinitrotoluol which were necessary elements in the manufacture of gas.

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