PROFILE of Joe Leblang cut rate ticket king. Offices in Fitzgerald Building. Gray's drugstore upstairs. Formerly in cloaks and suits, raw furs and read…
Best New Yorker Articles of 1926
Explore 51 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1926 issues.
51 picks · 51 issues · Top author: Morris Markey (20)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
Tells about Tammany Hall and politics and politicians. Principal four in Tammany are: Alfred E. Smith, James J. Walker, George W. Olvany and James Foley. …
I called on Dr. G. who is a doctor because a Berlin school of music said he might be. Invited me to inspect tone poem he had written. Tooh him six years to…
Tells about Sudden Death dinner given by Anti-Saloon League at Hotel McAlpin to celebrate 6th anniversary. Pussyfoot Johnson made speech. Dinner supposed …
Harold Lloyd building million dollar home in Beverly Hills. John Lane O'Connor, eminent stock actor gave Lloyd small parts in 8 of his productions, …
Eugene O'Neill, playwright. Born in New York near what later became Provincetown Players. Developed tuberculosis. When released from sanitarium joined …
Antonio Scotti has sung with Metropolitan Opera since 1899. On December 27, 1899, he made his debut in American house in Mozart's "Don Giovanni." …
Otto H. Kahn, banker interested in art and artists. Head of Kuhn, Loeb. Mentions Jacob Schiff. Rides to work in subway. Braves benches of Provincetown …
Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player. Won first championship in Nice when 11. Women go to study her clothes as well as watch her play. Mentions Borotra, Miss …
Sam Koenig, political boss. Mentions Percy Michelbacker, expert drawer of maps creating Republican districts where there were none before. First Republican…
Tells about Great Market Convulsion of 1926, day of Gargantuan shearings which Wall St. administers, when fancy strikes it to dear little lambs of world. …
Profile of Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer at 65. Has never had a press agent. Is past mistress of art of press agent hokum, herself. Fond of …
Profile of Helen Westley: Helen Westley, actress and director of Theatre Guild. Fulfills executive duties if in no other way by keeping Philip Moeller …
Charming Pollock, playwright, used to be press agent for Grace George and Anna Held. Worked for William A. Brady. Mentions his plays. Profile of Pollock.
Mentions newspaper poll on prohibition. From it it would seem Prohibition is dying. The ballot aroused formerly incurious citizens to consciousness many of…
John C. Mosher’s 1926 Profile of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Mrs. John T. Pratt, only women member Board of Aldermen. Wrote short article for The Woman Citizen, periodical. Her first known piece for papers. Mentions …
Profile of John and Charles Ringling brothers. Barnum supreme in East-Ringling in West, in early days. Ringling bought Barnum in 1907 for $410,000. …
Tells about Tombs Prison. Mentions Warden. Tells about visitors who come to see prisoners.
PROFILE of Professor John Dewey, writer, author of "School and Society. Mentions his cousin Adm. George Dewey; William James, and others.
Profile of Al Smith, politician. Mentions Tammany, Hearst, Murphy, Billy Kelly, Charles S. Hand, reporter, Syracuse World. Woodrow Wilson, John F. Hylan, …
Devereux Milburn, American polo captain. Mentions Meadow Brook. Lewis Lacey, of Argentina team coming with great four. International Matches. Tommy …
Tells about pretenders using phony titles: Right Hon. Lord Beaverbrook (Federick B. Stanley) Prince Zerdecheno and Prince Louis Henri de Chateroux de …
Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince of Sweden visits America. Morning Telegram published following headline" Big Swede Arrives with Swedie; Calls Reporters …
PROFILE of Edward Leader, rowing coach at Yale. Mentions Lawson Robertson, Olympic trainer and coach and DonGrant's famous Washington eight. In Paris …
Tells about visit to the Merton Institute of Scientific Vocation Guidance on 44th St., where they make study of phrenology. Hold classes for students, who …
PROFILE of Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing. President of the League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. Began as ordinary guard, arriving less that…
Profile of Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. of Atlanta, world's golf champion. His father good player. Prominent member National Rifle Association. His father, …
Scientific evenings in New York, No. 2. Visit to a woman spiritualist on West End Avenue. Her medium Darbin Larkspur, English boy who drowned himself in …
A Profile of baseball’s “bad boy,” from 1926: At thirty-two, the home-run king is erratic, impulsive, and—despite a slew of financial scandals—nearly a millionaire.
Morris Markey on the editor and reporter at the Daily Mirror reviving an old crime—is it to crack the case or keep the gossip circulating?
Tells about interview with Jack Dempsey, prizefighter, at Ritz. Said he would like to fight Harry Wills. Tex Rickard only man to promote it and he …
On Vesey St., against palings of St. Paul's churchyard, a rather young man preached of the soul and salvation to few people that gathered round. At end…
A Profile of Gertrude Ederle, a New York City teen-ager who won an Olympic gold medal in swimming and was later the subject of books and movies.
Fame came to Gertrude Ederle for swimming channel, altho Mrs. Corson did same thing a day or two later. Dudley Field Malone, her attorney, backed project …
Tells about theatrical rehearsals and people in general and particularly of "Green River" first jazz opera. Written by Laurence Stallings and Franke …
Profile of William Tatem Tilden, 2nd tennis champion. New theatrical vehicle "They All Want Something." Beaten by Vincent Richards. Mentions Maurice …
When prohibition law passed I was waiter at Sherry's. Wife saved money earned in other days and opened beauty parlor. Man followed me home, said …
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz is advisor, chief propagandist of, and band wagon driver for Al Smith. Tammany hates her. With Van Wamee, Gilchrist and Proskauer she …
PROFILE of Hudson Maxim, and some facts about his brother, Hiram Maxim. Hiram invented gasoline-lighting engine, and automatic gun. Lived much abroad. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. Straton's Church, on W. 57th Street. Printed card asked that people "Come and hear the Famous Child Evangelist." Tells …
William James Henderson, music critic for 44 years. At present music critic for N.Y. Sun. Legends he knew Monteverdi, Pasta and Palestrina. Carl Ruggles …
Morris Markey on the culmination of the Hall-Mills murder trial—and the futile pursuit of justice in a case loaded with politics, personal ambition, and gossip.
Harry Houdini, late magician. Mentions Cagliostro, magician. Always said what he did was only expert trickery. Worked for town locksmith when boy and could…
Morris Markey on the scene at the courthouse, in Somerville, New Jersey, where the prosecuting attorney Alexander Simpson is having the time of his life.
Tells about visit to Harlem colored night clubs. The Music Club, Dooley Mason, proprietor. Mr. Jack Brackett's Club Exclusive and the colored …
Profile of Dr. John Frederick Erdmann, surgeon. Mentions Drs. Lahey, of Boston, Denver of Philadelphia, Finney of Baltimore, Crile of Cleveland, Judd and …
Gene Tunney said, "Dempsey is inarticulate. Has good intelligence, I think. But has never had much chance to develop it. When he has an idea, it's …
Sacha Guitry and his wife Yvonne Printemps coming to America. Has been likened to Moliere. We think nearer Noel Coward. As an actor, a cross between Sir …
PROFILE. Guild born in Greenwich Village bookshop. Real father proprietor of bookshop hailing from Newark. Don't know why Floyd Dell not in it. …