PROFILE of Gatti-Casazza, impresario of Metropolitan Opera Company.
Best New Yorker Articles of 1925
Explore 45 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1925 issues.
45 picks · 45 issues · Top author: Waldo Frank (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
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We’d break the city’s unfeeling clutch And back to good Mother Earth we’d go, With Birds and blossoms and such-and-such, And love and kisses and so-and-so.
Carr Vatell Van Anda, famous newspaperman with Times. Now West on long vacation and left no word when would be back. Tells about Times and Adolph Ochs. …
Profile on Jack Dempsey. "The champion goes his own social way now. Not often does he seek diversion in the company of his one-time inseparable companion, …
Is inarticulate and lives within self. Great producer.
John McGraw is incarnation of American baseball. Manager and Vice-President of Giants. Tad, cartoonist, said "He's got bunions on his back from …
John H. Craige, man with 2 cauliflower ears, captain and publicity magi of U.S. Marine Corps. Armed forces of U.S. had controversy over "What Price Glory."…
PROFILE of Margaret Sanger, advocate of birth control. She has been put in jail eight times. Formerly Margaret Higgins.
Alfred Stieglitz first and supreme master of photograph.
Profile about Samuel Goldwyn, but tells anecdote re. Michael Arlen. Goldwyn had gamblers love for taking a chance. He met Michael Arlen in London and told …
Sam Drebin about 27 years ago arrived in U.S. a Russian Jew, without money or friends. Went into U.S. Army. Officer with Gen. Lee Christmas in Honduras …
PROFILE: We studied with George Luks at Art Students' League. Lives at 141 East 57th Street. Detroit Museum recently acquired brilliant example of his …
With Max Steuer, brilliant lawyer, law, instead of machine, becomes drama.
Chaplin, who has shaken the world with laughter, sees himself as the greater joke, Waldo Frank wrote, in 1925.
In Emporia, Kansas, live William Allen White and his wife, Sallie Lindsey White. If the Whites like you you have a blanket invitation to stop at their …
Deems Taylor considered most brilliant music critic in city. Also composer. Most versatile, can paint and build scenery, lead orchestra, etc. Also skilled …
William Jennings Bryan has made fortune out of politics. Wicked Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha one of the Bryan mainstays, at one time. Man named Bennett in …
Emanuel Julius, Jew from Philadelphia, worked for Socialist weekly paper. Migrated to Girard, Kansas and married Marcet Haldeman, daughter of late Mrs. …
Otto H. Kahn once said Morris Gest was greatest showman. Once sold newspapers in Boston. At one time rumor he might supplant Gatti-Casazza at Metropolitan.…
PROFILE of George Creel who was Chairman of the Committee of Public Information during the war. Appointed by Woodrow Wilson. Article tells several …
Marquis James on the atmosphere of Dayton, Tennessee, on the eve of the Scopes trial, which ignited the rift between the evolution fundamentalists and modernists, and which received outsized national media coverage.
Article tells about Sinclair Lewis. Mentions casually Mark Twain, Dreiser, Whitman.
Profile of Harry Payne Whitney. Tells about "Meeting Club" he established to get away from Club bores. Only has about dozen members, among them Peter …
PROFILE of Walter L. Clark, head of Grand Central Gallery. Started gallery telling artists they need pay only 10% on pictures sold instead of 40 or 60% …
Profile of Harry Kemp, poet and writer. Upton Sinclair, writer, came thru town one day and University permitted him to speak to selected few, at Kemp's…
About Theodore Dreiser.
Elizabeth Ryan, also known as Bunny Ryan, is Suzanne Lenglen's tennis doubles partner. Profile tells about Ryan and her triumphs. Mentions poor …
Tells all about Jimmie Walker. Only candidate for Mayor of New York who has written own campaign song. Tells about Shapiro Bernstein, music house, plugging…
Profile of Rene Lacoste. Mentions Jean Borotra, Darsonval, French professional tennis player; Bill Johnston, Wallis Myers, veteran Englishman who umpired …
A man, a museum - and their secret vice. Profile of Richard F. Bach, but also a story of what the museum does for the business man in the way of packaging …
PROFILE of Bernarr Macfadden. Tells about his magazines and newspaper. $15,000,000 publishing business.
Gives profile of Louis Josephs, known to stage as "Frisco."'
Morris Markey on the conception and popularity of the country’s first tabloids, from 1925.
Profile on Horace B. Liveright. Ran gamut from stocks and bonds to Dream.
Part 10 of Corey Ford’s satirical tour through the vast organization of The New Yorker.
Greatest football player of season. Seen near Zeta Psi house at university, where Grange lives were: Grantland Rice, Laurence Perry, James Braden, Herbert …
Profile of Adolph Simon Ochs, owner of NY Times. Mentions Van Anda, managing editor. Tells much about Times. Mentions Herald-Tribune; Daily News casually. …
From 1925: Ellin Mackay explains why young women are abandoning débutante balls in favor of night clubs.
PROFILE of Willem Mengelberg, leader of the Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a Hollander. His first commandment is that everything be 100 per cent he is a …
In Alaska Tex Rickard with two partners, Ole Elliot and Kid Highly, gamblers and adventurers entertained inhabitants of Nome. Opened Great Northern, saloon…
Leo Ornstein, pianist, and composer. Studied under Rimsky, Clazounov, Mrs. Tapper. In London while crowd hooted Mahler came to his rescue. At Sorbonne, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Battling Siki and his death. Quotes from James M. Cain's editorial in the World. Monstrous fellow who was bumped off in a …