Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheeler, born in 1883, was in his late 20s when the bravura of Sargent and Chase was superseded by two major influences: 1) realism from New Yorkers Sloan, Bellows and Luks, 2) Cubism from Parisians Braque, Picasso, Duchamp. It is Biographer Rourke's thesis that Charles Sheeler, by conspicuously keeping his head through a wild & woolly period, "submerged" the French abstract influence in native U. S. forms just as "real" as the street scenes of the Realists and more significant. These forms Sheeler found first in the old farmhouses, barns and functional handicraft of Bucks County, Pa., where...
During the late '20s The New Yorker employed a bright young man who wrote a column called The Sky Line, noting the erection of Manhattan's new apartment houses and office buildings. In the criticism of architecture The Sky Line included such amiable judgments as that the new, incredibly ornate and lugubrious Roxy Theatre was "a truly fine expression of what a place of entertainment should be." In the autumn of 1932 Lewis Mumford took over The Sky Line and speedily transformed it into its present role of the most perceptive, severe and expert column of architectural criticism...
Died. Tewfik ("success") Nessim Pasha, 64, three times Egypt's Prime Minister; of heart disease; in Cairo. Leader of Fuad's Cabinet for two short ministries in the 20s, again from 1934-36, taciturn Nessim Pasha was more successful as a business man than as a politician. After his last resignation his life was occupied by making & breaking engagements to marry 17-year-old Maria Huebner, a Viennese hotel keeper's daughter...
...early 20s the Literary Digest had become one of the greatest publishing successes in history. Its weekly juxtaposition of contrary newspaper opinion and cartoons had won it 1,400,000 readers, made it a national institution, a schoolroom textbook, a gold mine for its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls Co. No small part of its prestige came from its famed straw votes, whose ballots were accompanied by profitable subscription appeals. For the best part of a generation these polls forecast national election results with great accuracy. But gift premiums added to straw votes were not sufficient to offset growing public apathy toward...
...Page, co-managing editor of The Digest. He will edit the new weekly. Mr. Havell thinks The Digest flopped because it reflected too much editorial bias. His remedy will be reversion to the classic neutrality of juxtaposed newspaper comment which characterized the Literary Digest of the late '20s when it had 1,400,000 circulation. Beginning Nov. 13 the Literary Digest's, cover will appear bedecked in action color photographs. Its interior will contain: 1) a review of the week's news, 2) special articles and big-name features, 3) something called "Reading around the world." Says...