Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker (for the senseless and humorless scribblings by self-adjudged Artist Thurber...
...contribute articles that would be illuminating anywhere. But, compared to the flickering literary illumination, it is the 140 pictures that shed real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...
...Composer Kern's latest scores (Show Boat, Sweet Adeline, The Cat and the Fiddle) have profited by Composer Robert Russell Bennett's orchestrations. Composer Bennett, collaborating now on an opera with Critic Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker (TIME, May 23) uses few superficial tricks but he goes underneath the songs, inserts inner voices, counterpoint. He orchestrated Of Thee I Sing for George Gershwin, Face the Music for Irving Berlin, The Band Wagon for Arthur Schwarz, all Broadway hits...
...Long, Long Trail,"- is busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer writing music for a libretto by smart, versatile Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker. Maria Melbern, an oldtime Spanish prima donna, will be the heroine. The scene will be downtown Manhattan in the early 19th Century...
...afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker with the courage of his indiscretions, Henry C. Murphy of the Curb Exchange, appeared before the Prohibition Administrator with the information that he had been detained in a Manhattan West Side saloon for 48 hours, liquored, doped, threatened, made to sign $2,000 worth of checks. Three Prohibition agents accompanied...