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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

Featured Picks

MAESTRISSIMO!
Gilbert W. Gabriel · Profiles · February 21

PROFILE of Gatti-Casazza, impresario of Metropolitan Opera Company.

Cassandra Drops Into Verse
Dorothy Parker · Poems · February 28

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.

V.A.
· Profiles · March 7

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. …

"A Symbol in Pugilism"
James Kevin McGuinness · Profiles · March 14

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, …

"A Timid Little Man"
· Profiles · March 21

Is inarticulate and lives within self. Great producer.

Profiles "Mister Muggsy"
· Profiles · March 28

John McGraw is incarnation of American baseball. Manager and Vice-President of Giants. Tad, cartoonist, said "He's got bunions on his back from …

"A Gentleman with Two Cauliflower Ears"
· Profiles · April 4

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."…

THE CHILD WHO WAS MOTHER TO A WOMAN
Robert Hale · Profiles · April 11

PROFILE of Margaret Sanger, advocate of birth control. She has been put in jail eight times. Formerly Margaret Higgins.

Profiles "291"
· Profiles · April 18

Alfred Stieglitz first and supreme master of photograph.

The Celluloid Prince
· Profiles · April 25

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"
William Slavens McNutt · Profiles · May 2

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 …

"The Illustrious George"
· Profiles · May 9

PROFILE: We studied with George Luks at Art Students' League. Lives at 141 East 57th Street. Detroit Museum recently acquired brilliant example of his …

"A Symbol of Justice"
· Profiles · May 16

With Max Steuer, brilliant lawyer, law, instead of machine, becomes drama.

Charlie Chaplin, Popular God of Film
Waldo Frank · Profiles · May 23

Chaplin, who has shaken the world with laughter, sees himself as the greater joke, Waldo Frank wrote, in 1925.

A Three Dimensional Person
Edna Ferber · Profiles · May 30

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 …

"Versatility Personified"
Newman Levy · Profiles · June 6

Deems Taylor considered most brilliant music critic in city. Also composer. Most versatile, can paint and build scenery, lead orchestra, etc. Also skilled …

Silver-Tongue
Charles Willis Thompson · Profiles · June 13

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 …

After June 30th, the Deluge
Alexander Woollcott · Profiles · June 20

Emanuel Julius, Jew from Philadelphia, worked for Socialist weekly paper. Migrated to Girard, Kansas and married Marcet Haldeman, daughter of late Mrs. …

The Black Hat
Gilbert W. Gabriel · Profiles · June 27

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.…

INCREDIBLE MR. CREEL
Harvey O'Higgins · Profiles · July 4

PROFILE of George Creel who was Chairman of the Committee of Public Information during the war. Appointed by Woodrow Wilson. Article tells several …

Around Town at the Scopes Trial
Marquis James · American Chronicles · July 11

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.

In America's Image
· Profiles · July 18

Article tells about Sinclair Lewis. Mentions casually Mark Twain, Dreiser, Whitman.

Up From Fifth Avenue
Jack Frost · Profiles · July 25

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 …

A GENIUS WHO MADE ART INTO BIG BUSINESS
Murdock Pemberton · Profiles · August 1

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% …

Profiles "Poet's Progress"
Murdock Pemberton · Profiles · August 8

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…

"The Colossus of Children"
· Profiles · August 15

About Theodore Dreiser.

A Master of Her Art
John R. Tunis · Profiles · August 22

Elizabeth Ryan, also known as Bunny Ryan, is Suzanne Lenglen's tennis doubles partner. Profile tells about Ryan and her triumphs. Mentions poor …

Fourteenth St. and Broadway
Oliver H. P. Garrett · Profiles · August 29

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…

Profiles "Winning Against Time"
John R. Tunis · Profiles · September 5

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.
· Profiles · September 12

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 …

Another True Story
Oliver H. P. Garrett · Profiles · September 19

PROFILE of Bernarr Macfadden. Tells about his magazines and newspaper. $15,000,000 publishing business.

"Young Man from Dubuque"
Jo Swerling · Profiles · September 26

Gives profile of Louis Josephs, known to stage as "Frisco."'

Tabloids Come to America
Morris Markey · In the News · October 3

Morris Markey on the conception and popularity of the country’s first tabloids, from 1925.

"One Hundred Percent American"
Waldo Frank · Profiles · October 10

Profile on Horace B. Liveright. Ran gamut from stocks and bonds to Dream.

The Making of a Magazine—X: The Magazine’s Punctuation Farm
Corey Ford · The Making of a Magazine · October 17

Part 10 of Corey Ford’s satirical tour through the vast organization of The New Yorker.

A Kind Man
Waldo Frank · Profiles · October 24
All-American
John R. Tunis · Profiles · October 31

Greatest football player of season. Seen near Zeta Psi house at university, where Grange lives were: Grantland Rice, Laurence Perry, James Braden, Herbert …

Cracked ceilings
Corey Ford · Fiction · November 7
Higher critique
· Fiction · November 14
The Lone Prospector: Thirty Years After
Elmer Davis · Profiles · November 21

Profile of Adolph Simon Ochs, owner of NY Times. Mentions Van Anda, managing editor. Tells much about Times. Mentions Herald-Tribune; Daily News casually. …

Why We Go To Cabarets
Ellin Mackay · Essay · November 28

From 1925: Ellin Mackay explains why young women are abandoning débutante balls in favor of night clubs.

APOSTLE OF PERFECTION
Robert A. Simon · Profiles · December 5

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 …

Profiles "Rickard Rounds Up the Rubes"
W. O. McGeehan · Profiles · December 12

In Alaska Tex Rickard with two partners, Ole Elliot and Kid Highly, gamblers and adventurers entertained inhabitants of Nome. Opened Great Northern, saloon…

Rare as Music
Waldo Frank · Profiles · December 19

Leo Ornstein, pianist, and composer. Studied under Rimsky, Clazounov, Mrs. Tapper. In London while crowd hooted Mahler came to his rescue. At Sorbonne, …

GOG WAS A GIANT
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · December 26

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 …

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