Best New Yorker Articles of 1929
Explore 51 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1929 issues.
51 picks · 51 issues · Top author: Niven Busch, Jr. (11)
Most featured section: Profiles
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Some four hundred of New Yorks speakeasies were visited by Telegram reporters, who brought some of the liquor back to be analyzed by a chemist employed by …
Some four hundred of New York's speakeasies were visited by Telegram reporters, who brought some of the liquor back to be analyzed by a chemist …
Fiction, from 1929: “The pale young man eased himself carefully into the low chair, and rolled his head to the side, so that the cool chintz comforted his cheek and temple.”
In this classic Profile of Edith Wharton, Janet Flanner writes about the novelist’s friendships, her ethics, her travels, and her flowers.
Groucho Marx elaborates on different kinds of public-relations flacks he’s encountered.
PROFILE of Charles H. Tuttle, U. S. District Attorney. The history of Mr. Tuttle is that of a model boy who became a model man. There was some doubt …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Night Court of the Fourth District Magistrate Court Building, on Fifty-seventh Street. Night Court comedy is not …
Reporter at Large about private detective egencies, ethics how the personnel is trained, etc. Heads of successful agencies differ as to the value of lady …
We've been reading a lot lately about Broadway moving to Hollywood. The fact is that you could put Joe Frisco on every corner of Hollywood Boulevard, …
Air lines have been running for some time in Florida and California but most of them depend for profits on carrying mail as well as passengers. Tells about…
REPORTER AT LARGE. about the coming of the talkies. There persist a quaint notion amongst no small number of the populace that the talkies will soon pass. …
My wife, as usual; got me into it. "Why, everybody here in Larchwood studies birds," she said. "All the worth-while people are in the Bird Club--we've …
Profile of the owner of the hotel, B.L.M. Bates. It is probably the only hotel in t he city that is owned by an individual. It was built about 45 years …
Tells about the careless, thoughtless, illplanned ocean flight of Letti, Assollant, and Lefevre, who successfully landed in Spain, and the ill-fated flight…
During her years as a Texas schoolteacher, the artist discovered abstraction, Robert M. Coates writes. Then Alfred Stieglitz, at his popular picture gallery, 291 Fifth Avenue, discovered her.
PROFILE of William F. Carey, who took the place of Tex Rickard.
REPORTER AT LARGE. Detailed description of police headquarters: cells, Property Room, studio and general procedure in various departments. An offender rare…
REPORTER AT LARGE. The enthuriasm for installing bar rooms has created a new antique market. An authentic bock beer sign is worth about fifty dollars. …
Chinatown is controlled by the Hip Sings and the On Leongs, the two tongs. They are usually friendly, but when there is trouble, Chinatown is barred to …
From 1929: Niven Busch, Jr., on the New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, whose early teammates, including Babe Ruth, remember him as one of the most bewildered recruits ever to join the club.
The country weekend is a sacred institution in England. No Londoner, if he can help himself, will be caught spending Saturday and Sunday in town.
Profile of Samuel Hildreth
Tells about home of largest gin merchants. They do not talk of alcohol, but of the new home they have built, and are still in process of furnishing. Their …
There is more than a trace of kangaroo in Maruspial, the pewter platter cat. She strolls daintily about trying to catch your eye. If you do happend to look…
The peepies, it seems, are on the bum. Sixth Avenue at this writing is shrill with the keening of the penny arcade proprietors who have just concluded the …
Jack Diamond, proprietor of the Hotsy-Totsy Club fell back on his excellent pistol last week. The Cassidy Bros. insisted that he must buy another lot of …
PROFILE of Bill Klem, the oldest active umpire in the major Leagues.
The experience of an amateur rider on a murderous horse, called "Murderess". She realizes the rider knows comparatively nothing about riding and takes full…
PROFILE of Winthrop Ames who retired recently and left Boston for N.Y. to make a reputation as a producer. Descendant of Roger Winthrop and nephew of the …
Sam Goldwyn discovered Lily Damita in France. Although her English is really excellent, and her accent none too pronounced, she obligingly says, "wis," and…
PROFILE of Walter Johannes Damroch.
PROFILE of Norman Thomas, nominal leader of the Socialist Party.
Revival of Fritzi Scheff in Mlle. Modiste, who snaps her fingers in derision at the years, and sings her famous Kiss Me Again with the air of a new prima …
Study of a typical football coach, his likes and dislikes & methods he uses to teach a team. May not know much about human psychology, but does know about …
Dorothy Parker has the devastating task of describing the greatest—and most gossiped-about—writer of the day, in this Profile from 1929.
PROFILE of J. Clarence Davies, one of the real-estate pioneers of the Bronx. It was an accident that brought him to the Bronx. He got a broken ankle while …
Lillian Wald was original founder of the Henry Street Settlement house. After graduating from New York Hospital training school for nurses was taking …
A young man hit upon an idea to solve the problem of getting gifts that he didn't want and decided to do something about it. His aunt and uncle who …
A visit to a dance-hall where hostesses greet us as we go in, and steer us over to where thirty girls, dressed in evening dresses sat, waiting to be picked…