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1945, Miscellaneous, Recent Articles, Yank Magazine

How the United Nations Works
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Here is an instructional cartoon for students illustrating how the United Nations was intended to function during a crises.

The cartoonist clearly indicated the step-by-step protocol that was designed to eradicate world wars with a diplomatic process beginning jointly in both the U.N. General Assembly as well as the U.N. Security Council, proceeding on to three other possible U.N. committees (such as the Trusteeship Council, the Military Staff Committee or the International Courts) before the general body would be able to deploy any international force on it’s behalf.

1944, World War Two, Yank Magazine

1944 Army Statistcs
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

By editor / July 29, 2015

A printable list of figures regarding U.S. Army and Navy strength as tabulated for the year 1944:

The latest figures, released last week, show that the total strength of the armed forces now comes to about 11,417,000. The House Military Affairs Committee, to which Selective Service gave this information, released it to the public without comment, but several committee members were reported to have said privately that it confirmed their suspicions that some 2,000,000 more men have been inducted than necessary.

Click here to read another article about U.S. casualties up to the year 1944.

1914, Fashion (WWI), Vanity Fair Magazine

Summer Mode for an Era’s End
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1914)

By editor / July 29, 2015

The Paris fashion world that thrived during the August of 1914 was rightfully intrigued by the chic creations conjured up by the House of Worth, Drécoll, and Mme Paquin.

1918, Armistice, The Better Times

‘The Horrors of Peace”
(The Better Days, 1918)

By editor / July 29, 2015

A Salute to Susan B. Anthony
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1920)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Five and a half months before the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting all female citizens over the age of 21 the right to vote, the editors of THE PATHFINDER MAGAZINE saw fit to pay tribute to Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906) – the woman who got the ball rolling so long ago:

She drafted the pending amendment to the constitution in 1875.

1938, Hollywood History, Ken Magazine, Recent Articles

A Screenwriter’s Progress
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Yardley, a cartoonist from KEN MAGAZINE, made this four panel yuk-yuk about Depression era screenwriters and the shoe being on the other foot. Truth be told, the story it tells is as fitting in our own time as it was in the Thirties. Nicely rendered, too.

Click here to read about feminine conversations overheard in the best New York ladies rooms of 1937.

1916, Motion Picture Magazine, Recent Articles, Silent Movie History

Scenario Writers and Plagiarism
(Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)

By editor / July 29, 2015

The attached is one from a series of articles that appeared in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE penned by a Hollywood insider during the high-fashion days of silent film. The reader will be alarmed to read that even as early as 1916, plot-stealing and other forms of Hollywood plagiarism were in full swing.

A few weeks earlier, a California Representative had introduced an anti-plagiarism bill to Congress.

Click here to read about the Hollywood plagiarism game of 1935.

1922, Civil Behavior, Confederate Veteran Magazine, Recent Articles

The Battle of Kenesaw and the Goodness of Colonel Martin
(Confederate Veteran, 1922)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Here is a segment from a longer article found on this site that recalled the history of boys who had enlisted in the Confederate cause – this short paragraph tells the story of a Rebel colonel, W.H. Martin of the 1st Arkansas Regiment, who called out to his opposite number in the Federal ranks during a lull in the fighting for Kenesaw Mountain and allowed for a truce so that the immobilized wounded of the Northern infantry would be rescued from a fire that was spreading in no-mans-land.

1915, Recent Articles, Silent Movie History, Vanity Fair Magazine

Etiquette in the Movies
(Vanity Fair, 1915)

By editor / July 29, 2015

No doubt, this is one of the funniest pieces you are likely to find on the topic of acting and costuming in silent movies. It was written by Frederick Lewis Allen (1890 – 1954) and Frank Tuttle (1892-1963); both men approached the movies with the low expectations that were probably all too typical of theater lovers at that time. Frederick Lewis Allen is best remembered today as one of the better chroniclers of the Twenties and author of Only Yesterday (1931) while Frank Tuttle would find himself, in a few short years, directing movies in Hollywood. Tuttle was one of the few Directors who successfully made the jump from silent films to sound and continued working; at this writing, he was an Assistant Editor at Vanity Fair.

1918, Fashion, Harper's Bazaar Magazine

Paris Hats by Marie Louise, Lucie Hamar and Lanvin
(Harper’s Bazaar, 1918)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Six fashion illustrations concerning the autumn hats of 1918:

Paris is exceedingly critical in regard to hats even in wartime, and the new ones are most interesting. Black velvet of course is rampant, and Marie Louise especially is using much much black panne velvet…

1918, Golf History, Vanity Fair Magazine

Men’s Summer Golf Apparel
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Attached you will find some kind words promoting brown linen as the preferred fabric for summer golf, yet what is most striking is the accompanying photo of a young rake in his period golf apparel sporting a pair of putees for his time upon the links. It is rare that one finds a photograph of a golfer in putees and one might get the sense that the look never really caught on.

1916, Golf History, Vanity Fair Magazine

The Action-Back Jacket for the Golfing Man
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1916)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Those young bucks who golfed and participated in other field and blood-sports during the early Twentieth Century were the lads who benefited most from the tailor’s craft. Pictured here are details of the pivot-sleeve (later to be called the ‘action-back’): a four button, deep-vented, self-belted, pleated golf jacket with matching knickers.

Also featured is a terribly natty English cheviot golf hat.

1956, Abraham Lincoln, The National Park Service

Traveling to the Lincoln – Douglas Debate
(National Park Service, 1956)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Stephen Douglas (1813 – 1861), Lincoln’s Democratic rival in the contest for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois, was a popular figure with a great deal of political capitol who enjoyed wide spread fame throughout much of the fruited plain; this all contributed to a robust ego which would not suffer anything less than traveling to the debates in a grand style. By contrast, Honest Abe traveled in economy class, packed among the masses (although as a railroad lawyer, he certainly could have afforded better).

This short paragraph (accompanied by a photograph of both men) was written by a friend of Lincoln who recalled his train ride with the (losing) candidate as he made his way to Ottawa, Illinois, the site of the first debate.

1946, Collier's Magazine, Hollywood History

Edwige Feuillère Gets Liberated
(Collier’s, 1946)

By editor / July 29, 2015

A 1946 article in which the beloved French actress Edwige Feuillère (1907 – 1998) is personified as the epitome of wounded French Glamor returned to it’s rightful place following the hasty retreat of those nasty Huns from the boulevards of lovely Paris:

Edwige Feuillère, France’s Number One actress, is wearing evening clothes again – and all fashionable Paris rejoices. It is a sort of symbol, the blooming of the lovely Edwige into full-panoplied formality. For she, along with most women of France, abstained from festivities and the clothes that go with them throughout the war.

1937, Hollywood History, Photoplay Magazine

The High and the Mighty and the Movies They Loved(Photoplay Magazine, 1937)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Royalty and rulers of the world are movie fans. The cinema tastes of the great are disclosed for the first time in this article.

Listed in the attached 1937 Hollywood fan magazine article are the names of the favorite movies of Gandhi, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Hirohito, Roosevelt and many more.

Click here to read about happy Hollywood’s discovery of plastic surgery…

1915, Dada History, Vanity Fair Magazine

Francis Picabia
(Vanity Fair, 1915)

By editor / July 29, 2015

In 1915, the year before Dada was created, one of the movement’s followers, Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953), was spotted in New York City by the editors of VANITY FAIR who quickly put him through the works.

1916, Photoplay Magazine, Silent Movie History

Anti-Plagerism Legislation Introduced
(Photoplay Magazine, 1916)

By editor / July 29, 2015

Attached is a small column that credited U.S. Representative Charles Hiram Randall (1865 – 1951) of Los Angeles for having proposed legislation before Congress that sought copyright protection for the benefit of scenario writers in Hollywood:

Congressional Randall [Prohibition Party] of California has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives for the protection of scenario authors, by providing for the issuance of a copyright on the scenario upon reciept of two typewritten copies to the proper department in Washington.

1919, Recent Articles, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

U.S. Propaganda Pamphlets Dropped on the Hun
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

By editor / July 29, 2015

This is a swell read, written in that patois so reminiscent of those fast talking guys in 1930s Hollywood movies. One of the many reasons I find this era so interesting has to do with the fact that the war coincided with that mass-media phenomenon called advertising – and this article pertains exactly to that coincidence. This column was printed shortly after the war in order to let the Doughboys in on the existence of a particular group within the A.E.F. that was charged with the task of dumping propaganda leaflets all over the German trench lines:

Propaganda is nothing but a fancy war name for publicity and who knows the publicity game better than the Yanks?

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