Archive for August, 2006

Jazz – A Scourge, 1921

Unspeakable Jazz Must Go! It is worse than Saloon and Scarlet Vice, Testify Professional Dance Experts – Only a Few Cities are Curbing Evil. EXPERTS tell in this article the nation-wide aspects of our jazz scourge. They say legal prohibition of all dancing may come. Â A reform movement has been started by cities and [...]

Coles Phillips – Illustrator

The originator of the Fadeaway Girl is not of the long-haired, flowing bow-tie variety of artists, but prides himself on his practicality and enjoys having his friends call him “sane and business-like,” which he is. He lives in New Rochelle, the New York suburb which now has another claim to fame than the fact that [...]

American Premiere of Ravel’s Bolero in 1929

HISSES HAVE FOLLOWED THE RENDITION of much modern music, but joy would have warmed the heart of the Frenchman, Ravel, to hear the shouts and plaudits following Toscanini’s conducting of his “Bolero.” The composition is a year old, and was presented, two weeks ago, for the first time in New York. Carnegie Hall rocked; and [...]

Thomas Mann – Nobel Prize Winner for Literature 1929

Thomas Mann’s achievements stretch over a quarter of a century. The Macon Telegraph prints a succinct account of Mann’s life, with a few words of comment: “Mann was born in Lubeck, June 6, 1875, and during his school days in a North German gymnasium he did not distinguish himself particularly in scholarship. He was interested, [...]

Rabbit Cooking Recipes from 1918

Rabbits may have been a problem in the U.S. and Australia in the first half of the 20th century, but they also provided an important food source for poorer families. These article from the Ladies Home Journal offers lots of different recipes for cooking rabbits. JACK RABBITS have for many years been regarded as pests [...]

American Democracy vs Fascism Debate 1927

SOMETHING LIKE A HEAD-ON COLLISION between Fascism and American democracy seems to some observers to be approaching. Here is our Department of Labor being asked to exclude Count Di Revel, President of the Fascist League of North America, on the ground that his swearing to the Fascist oath makes him an undesirable alien; and a [...]

French Ocean Liner Ile de France in 1927

Shipping Line owners engaged in competition with each other to produce the fastest and most luxurious ships afloat. One of these opulent ships was the Ile de France. This 1927 account gives a description of this magnificent ship: ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN” might be a fitting motto for the new French liner, which has [...]

Dirigible Crashes 1900 – 1925

The first quarter of the 20th Century saw Dirigibles become a major force in aviation. However, the fiery crash of the Hindenberg captured on movie film was a setback that the dirigible industry never recovered from. Prior to the Hindenberg there had been many other crashes, but they were not filmed, and so had less [...]