Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write), Hollywood and two months ago, Mystic Magazine, an idea conceived in Paris by Mrs. Fawcett. Mystic Magazine capitalizes the current faddish interest in astrology and (to quote Variety) "mitt-reading." Its first issue carried an "exclusive" spirit message from the late Conan Doyle -"scooping the Cosmopolitan by a full month." Captain Billy is frankly worshipful toward his Whiz Bang. Wherever he travels he sends back great sheaves of ribald jokes and also, with intense pride, hist monthly editorial: "Drippings from the Fawcett." In elaborate metaphor he voices his love for the common people, liquor and the "pleasures of living...
WHISTLER?James Laver?Cosmopolitan...
...handbook comprise some of the better known functions of Brooks House. Somewhat less recognized by the University at large are the facilities offered for the meeting of foreign students and the furtherance of various schemes for international good will. There is a definite benefit to be gained from such cosmopolitan gatherings in the stimulating exchange of diverse ideas and the contact with the widely varying traits of character and view points of the different nations. The provision made by the International council for round table discussions is but one instance of the organization's efforts to maintain the third...
...Abbott's Monthly, "A Magazine That's Different." Published in Chicago by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder and owner of the Chicago Defender (weekly), Abbott's Monthly from its "pretty girl" cover of yellow, red and lavender to its book review department is a curious mixture of Cosmopolitan, Liberty, American, True Story Magazine, World's Work. Editor Lucius Clinton Harper readily admits it is patterned after any number of magazines and is intended to be the all-inclusive Negro publication. Black and white contributors alike are solicited, but only two famed authors, no original drawings by famed...
...WANDERER or LIVERPOOL-John Masefield-Macmillan ($3.50).† The first book John Masefield has written as England's Poet Laureate is appropriately a book about an English ship: the steel four-masted barque Wanderer of Liverpool. The Wanderer has already appeared in enterprising Publisher Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Not all the book is poetry, but even Masefield's prose descriptions of his heroine have often the ring of verse...