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Cartoon — “THE WORLD’S MOST PITIFUL CASES / The little boy who couldn’t get a seat at his mother’s divorce trial” — by Gardner Rea (1894-1966), published in Judge Magazine, March 15, 1927.
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Cartoon — “THE WORLD’S MOST PITIFUL CASES / The little boy who couldn’t get a seat at his mother’s divorce trial” — by Gardner Rea (1894-1966), published in Judge Magazine, March 15, 1927.
Cartoon by Gardner Rea in the September 17, 1935 New Masses.
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Gardner Rea, 1963.
The Grand Garbo
Joan Crawford was an MGM star by the 1930s, and according to many critics, an absolute scene-stealer in 1932’s Grand Hotel. However, the New Yorker’s film critic John Mosher saw Garbo, and only Garbo, in this Academy Award-winning pre-code drama. April 23, 1932 cover by E.B. White. Although White’s friend and early office mate James Thurber had been contributing drawings for more than a year, it…
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The Flying Chinaman. Harry H. Fein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1938. First edition. Original dust jacket. Illustrations by Gardner Rea.
I found this dull, repetitious, long drawn out. The story of how a misunderstanding of a filial remark made at a father's deathbed, misled the doctor into paths of crime in search of a non-existent treasure. Since the reader knows the facts from the start there isn't even any suspense to this Chinese mystery. Punk. -- Kirkus Review, 1938
1933-11-25 - The New Yorker - Gardner Rea
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
We first encountered critic Lewis Mumford in the June 30, 1931 issue of the New Yorker when he roundly excoriated plans for Rockefeller Center. The Nov. 14 issue once again found him in a surly mood, this time regarding the decorative arts and how they had been poorly displayed at the otherwise esteemed Metropolitan Museum. Nov. 14, 1931 cover by B.H. Jackson. To say that Mumford was displeased…
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Rooftop Romance
In the days before air conditioning, New Yorkers took to the higher rooftops in the city to escape the summer heat and reconnect with familiar entertainers.
June 6, 1931 cover by Theodore Haupt. The title image is a detail from a Sept. 5, 1970 cover by Arthur Getz.
Among those reconnecting was Lois Long, who had abandoned her nightlife column “Tables for Two” the previous year but revived it in…
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