Year of the Monkey postcards from 1932, by Takahashi Haruka, via Ephemera Assemblyman. Many, many more here. From a collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Ah, for the days before the Trump monstrosity on the triangle between CPW and Broadway!
Photo of Columbus Circle, looking north, by Berenice Abbott, 1938. Available for purchase at 20x200.
"Mr Roosevelt is my shepherd,
I am in want,
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He destroyeth my soul.
He leadeth me in paths of destruction for the party’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of depression,
I anticipate no recovery,
For he is with me;
He prepareth a deduction in my salary,
And in the presence of mine enemies
He anointeth my small income with taxes,
And my expenses runneth over;
Surely unemployment and poverty shall follow me all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in a mortgaged house forever."
I am in want,
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He destroyeth my soul.
He leadeth me in paths of destruction for the party’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of depression,
I anticipate no recovery,
For he is with me;
He prepareth a deduction in my salary,
And in the presence of mine enemies
He anointeth my small income with taxes,
And my expenses runneth over;
Surely unemployment and poverty shall follow me all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in a mortgaged house forever."
—
“The 1938th Psalm,” anti-FDR propaganda found in the files of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.
In the Perkins Papers at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Why, Jimmy Stewart. You sly dog, you.
“Clarence Brown, the director, wasn’t too pleased by the way I did the smooching. He made us repeat the scene about half a dozen times…I botched it up on purpose. That Jean Harlow sure was a good kisser. I realized that until then I had never been really kissed.”
James Stewart on his kissing scene with Jean Harlow in Wife vs. Secretary
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Iranian Playing Cards, Jacks.
Specially manufactured playing cards for the Iranian monopoly by Thos. De La Rue & CO Ltd. London. Designed by V. Romanowski de Boncza. Circa 1930s.
“Sono Osata, 1937” by George Platt Lynes.
Ray Bradbury with Marlene Dietrich, 1935.
Bon voyage, sir.
Splendid! I saw this posted elsewhere with no identifying info, and guessed it was late-’20s/early-’30s. Indeed.
“The Dance Track” Helene Shelda, a young Russian dancer who was inspired by the Hindus in British India, reaped great success in Paris, 1931.
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Happy birthday to an underappreciated director, Gregory La Cava (10 March 1892– 1 March 1952), seen above with Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn on the set of the wonderful Stage Door (1938).
If he were responsible for nothing more than the delicious and effervescent My Man Godfrey (1936), it would be enough to seal his renown for me. But he also directed everything from the bizarre teen sex melodrama The Age of Consent (1932) to the Fannie Hurst potboiler Symphony of Six Million (1932) to the surreal Depression-era political fantasy Gabriel Over the White House (1933) to the ultimate greenhorn-to-star journey of Stage Door.
Even cooler, he started out his career in animation, working on silent cartoons of The Katzenjammer Kids!
Garbo, photographed by the great George Hurrell, in the film “Romance” (1930), in a photo grabbed from the Self-Styled Siren’s current banner.
I feel the costume designer gets as much, if not more, of the credit for the magnificence of this shot. And since that costume designer was Adrian, I challenge anyone to disagree with me.
Coop (with ?), looking especially dapper.
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Cartoonists celebrate the end of Prohibition by The Devil Puppet on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
A group of well-heeled and well-oiled cartoonists gather in NYC in 1933 (with some “vintage liquor” and a camera man) to celebrate the repeal of the 18th amendment. From left to right: Otto Soglow, Rube Goldberg, Russ Westover, Ad Carter, Billy DeBeck, H.H. Knerr, Robert Ripley, Jack Lait, George McManus, Milt Gross and Cliff Sterrett. Wow. Most cartoonist get-togethers I’ve been to were lucky to scrape up a few six-packs of the cheap stuff.
WOW. That is even more wacked out in color than it was in black and white…
Katharine Hepburn, “Christopher Strong”, 1933.
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