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Benny Goodman, The King of Swing, Arrives on Park Avenue (Stage Magazine, 1938)
To mark the momentous occasion of Benny Goodman (1909 – 1986) and his band performing for the 'corsage clique' on Park Avenue in 1938, 'the King of Swing' wrote this short essay concerning all his good work and the enjoyment that it brought to the Jitterbgers of the world:"A band swinging on a dias is like Babe Ruth swinging at home plate. It levels all the bumps of wealth and birth and makes all people free and equal. Maybe that's why Hitler and Mussolini and all the rest of the boys won't give it elbow room..."
| The First N.Y. Exhibit of Paris Art Made During the Occupation (Art Digest, 1946)
"Recent paintings from Paris have been brought to New York by Pierre Matisse (1900 – 1989) and are now on view at his 57th Street Gallery [at the Fuller Building]. Represented are the Pierre Bonnard, Jean Dubuffet, Andre Marchand, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault."
| Black America in 1929 (Book League, 1929)
This book review of Scott Nearing's "Black America" was published on the eve of the Great Depression and it provides a very accurate account of that community."There are in the United States today, if statistics do not lie, some twelve million Negroes. The population of the Argentine is not so large, nor that of Holland, nor that of Sweden. Eight million of these dark Americans live in the South. In Georgia alone there are more than a million colored people...How do they live - these blacks in a country controlled by whites
Author Scott Nearing (1883 – 1983) was an American naturalist, educator and civil rights advocate. Click here to read an article by Ralph Ellison concerning Black writers of the 1930s.
| The Greatest Generation?? (Yank Magazine, 1945)
During the closing weeks of 1945 a British woman wrote in to the editors of Yank just to let all concerned know that American GIs were pretty poor in the sack. The letter appeared in the very last issue of the magazine and she was given the final word on the topic:"I have known many Yanks, the majority of them nice boys...But, blimey, they don't know the first thing about love-making."
| A Profile of Cary Grant (Stage Magazine, 1939)
A fabulous two page article from "Stage Magazine" on the career of Cary Grant as it progressed to the year 1939:"Cary Grant is one of Hollywood's most vociferous spokesmen for glamour, but it hasn't gotten him anywhere. Between 1929 and 1937 he appeared with Glamour-Girls Jeanette MacDonald, Quenie Smith, Fay Wray, Lili Damitia, Carloe Lombard, Nancy Caroll, Sylvia Sidney, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, Elissa Landi, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Jean Harlow, Grace Moore, and Mae West, twice - but they didn't get him anywhere...Then he played a dead man." Click here if you wish to read a magazine profile of Noël Coward.
| Social Issues in Movies (The Stage, 1938)
Are you tired of Hollywood movies ranting on endlessly about one social or political issue after another? They certainly do make a good many of them: Nuclear power................They're against it ("The China Syndrome"). Antisemitism...................They're against it ("Gentleman's Agreement").
Alcoholism......................They're against it ("Lost Weekend"). Racial segregation...........They're against it, but in 1915 they were for it ("Birth of a Nation". One glance at this 1939 article and you'll be able to blame it all on the poet Archibald McLeish (1892 – 1982) who clearly advocated for political posturing in American movies.
| Douglas Fairbanks on Hollywood (Vanity Fair, 1918)
A very funny article written by the great matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks (1883 – 1939) concerning the predictability of silent films: "Whether eastern or western, the villain is never without a big black cigar. On the screen a big black cigar represents villainy; on the stage it represents General Grant." Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith.
| Wings: Directed by William Wellman (Life, 1927)
Appearing in an issue of (the old) "Life Magazine", that was almost entirely devoted to the 1927 American Legion convention in Paris, was this Robert Sherwood review of the blockbuster silent film "Wings". Directed by an American Air Corps veteran, William Wellman (1896 –1975), "Wings" was the only silent film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture (at that time the category was titled "Most Outstanding Production"):"It is the story of two extremely youthful officers in the American air service during the war. We can see them going through the training mill in Texas, dueling with a German 'circus' above the clouds, raking communication roads with machine-gun fire and finally facing each other in a terrific life-and-death struggle in the air....The two heroes are played, and played remarkably well, by Charles (Buddy) Rogers and Richard Arlen...Clara Bow, who appears as the saccharine heroine, is, I regret to say, not so good." Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith.
| Max Beckman Since the War (Art Digest, 1946)
Max Beckmann (1884 – 1950), having fled to Holland from his native Germany in order to escape Hitler, arrived in New York shortly after the end of the war and wasted no time in securing an aggressive dealer eager to arrange liasons between him and the the post-war dollar. "The first exhibition of Max Beckman's work since 1941 is currently being held at the Bucholz Gallery in New York. Director Kurt Valentin has assembled for this event important examples of Beckman's brush dating from 1939 to the present...Among the many drawings particularly remembered are a satirical 'Radio Singer' and a tongue-in-cheel 'Anglers', along with 'Head Waiters'."
| American Corpse Found at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp (Yank, 1945)
"There were 31 bodies piled in one place and more than that tumbled together on top of each other in a nearby shack - 65 in all. Some of the bodies were clothed in rags and some were completely naked. One body was that of an American soldier. Blood had caked the ground around the bodies into pancakes of red mud."From time to time, it was the practice of the German military to separate American Jewish soldiers from their fellows and transfer them to concentration camps.
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