Conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bates in church. He keeps asking her about the various furs he sees on other woman's coats. She classifies them …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1933
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1933 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Alva Johnston (12)
Most featured section: Profiles
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Profile of Frederic William Goudy who is consider one of the greatest type-designers in the world, and all those who take joy in beautiful books are deeply…
Tells of a little girl who is lost in the subway station. She is twelve years old and very conscious of her age. A minister comes along and asks her where …
Visit to the Municipal Lodging House at Twenty-Fifth Street where a bed is given to the homeless who have no money. T Gives the impressions of a woman who …
Typical day of an investigator sent by the Emergency Work Bureau to the homes of poor people who applied or were recommended for relief. The Emergency …
PROFILE of Donald Deskey, a modern-day artist who is in charge of the artists who are painting murals for the Radio City Music Hall. Tells of his hard …
Fanciful story about a man who was in love with his secretary and decided to get rid of his wife in order to marry the secretary. Comes home and tells his …
Whenever the sponsors of a worthy cause are about to form a committee, one of the first names they think of is George Gordan Battle. Possibly they feel …
Tells of the presidential inauguration at Washington of the new president, Mr. Roosevelt. The crowds, although optimistic in general, were somewhat …
I knew what I had to face when mailing a package in my S Spanish village's one-room, one-man post office. El cartero besides not being able to read …
Tells of the trial of Sophie May Burns and Dillis, alias Shakespeare. Amos Peters who ran a speakeasy in Harlem was the state's witness in the case …
Tells of Stillmans Gymnasium on Fifty-seventh Street and Eighth Avenue which has been established for eighteen year and has helped to develop more than …
Tells about Lou Stillman's gymn on Fifty-Seventh and Eighth Avenue. Trains prizefighters there and develops them for the ring. Their indoor sports also…
Edmund Pearson on Lizzie Borden, who was tried for and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet blade, in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.
PROFILE of Charles Nessler, inventor of the Permanent Wave which he brought to this country in 1915. He uses the name of Nestle in business. He also …
Tells of the new director of the greatest show on earth, Samuel W. Gumpertz who has been in the amusement business for more than half a century. The …
Profile of Samuel W. Gumpertz, circus man who in the course of thirty-one freak-hunting expeditions abroad, visited Asia five times, Java once, the …
PROFILE of Joseph P. Day, the world's crack-real-estate auctioneer. He has sold a billion and a quarter dollars worth of property in the first three …
Profile of Leonor F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. He is Harriman's private heir as a manipulator of railroad systems. …
Profile of Will H. Hays, the czar of the film industry. Tells of his various moves to consolidate the growing industry, and in 1927, the federal regulation…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the newly organized Civilian Conservation Corps which has been appointed by Congress andwhich now is temporarily at Mitchel Field …
Composite profile of the richest bookie in the country, and some facts about his business. Tells how percentage works for him, and is smarter than he is. …
Tells about the night that his father went to sleep in an old iron bed in the attic. He slept with his cousin who had a fear that he was going to be …
The leading Bolshevik and the highest Soviet official in this country is the chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, Peter Alexyevitch Bogdanov. He …
Thoughts of Mrs. Read about her daughter, Claire who is a well-brought up young woman who has learned to know and do all the proper things a young lady …
PROFILE of Herbert E. Winlock, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who had made Egyptian expeditions for the Museum before he became its director …
Tells of the Republican Party, and some of the reasons for its mental, moral and social breakdown. One faction of Republicans believe that the party will …
The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry that I just didn't …
Profile of George Z. Medalie, current United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and some of the reforms that he has brought about since …
Tells of the case of Jessie Costello who was accused of poisoning her husband with cyanide of potassium which she said she had bought to clean the kitchen …
Tells of Frances Perkins, recently appointed as Secretary of Labor by President Roosevelt. There was much political discussion about the appointment, …
Tells of the people who are responsible for winning the repeal, among which are men of action like Al Smith, Raskob, and Butler. Dr. Butler's ceaseless…
Tells of Rosa Lewis, hotel proprietress of Hotel Cavendish and former cook to the Prince of Wales. The Cavendish was originall Louis Philippe's house …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Tells of the "Murder Trust" that collected in Tony Marino speakeasy at 3804 Third Avenue. They picked out Michael Malloy, an old …
Tells of Aime Semple MacPherson, the Evangelist and her appearances before the public. At the first luncheon she was introduced by Major Bowes, she arose …
Profile of Hamilton Fish, Jr.
Visit to the boat belonging to Seth Parker, nee Phillips Lord, the philosophical New England radio performer worth a million dollars. It has been his …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Gives some of the prices that will be standard on liquors that will be back with repeal. Computes that the cost of Scotch, rye, and …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit and hike with the Yosian Brotherhood, a walking club which was organized by J. Otis Swift, an emintently practical and …
Visit to the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company located in the Radio City Building. It is an eleven-story building adjoining the Central …
Visit to Elkton, Md., where runaway people wishing to get married in a hurry go. It became famous as a marriage center in 1920, one year after the arrival …
REPORTER AT LARGE tells of visit to U.S. Assay office located at South Street, and some facts about the new temple where gold is stored as security for …
Profile of Elsa Maxwell.
Alva Johnston on how the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein—who, before publishing his theory of relativity, had been almost a recluse—came to tolerate his popularity.
The second part of Alva Johnston’s two-part Profile of Albert Einstein, from 1933.
Visit to the Grand Central Palace where the biennial Exposition of Chemical Industries held their exposition. There were more machines on view than …
Tells of the Hammer collection, appraised originally at over $1,000,000 which has been enthusiastically written up in the art sections of most …
A visit to the New York Foundling Hospital, located between Lexington Avenue and Third on Sixty-eighth Street. Abandoned children, and those of unwed …