Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes, the A. E. F. newspaper edited by Private Harold Ross (now editor of The New Yorker). But John Erskine's sonnets never appeared in The Stars & Stripes...
...read the book, see the picture. Artist Arno's pictured people are at the opposite pole from immortality, but at least two of them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years...
...Dick" which have been made so desirable by Rockwell Kent's fine illustrations. A survey of Cambridge bookstores also discloses the Harvard man's predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett's "Imperial Palace...
...European fronts and was taken from the trenches to become an official cartoonist attache to all armies. Since the war he has written several successful plays and books. He is now working in America, drawing for a number of the leading humorous publications such as "Judge," "The New Yorker," "Life," and "The American Magazine." Meanwhile he is lecturing throughout the country, accompanying his lectures with slides which he has drawn for the purpose...
...became known that Artist Peter Arno (The New Yorker), having designed the sets for a revue called The New Yorkers, was denied admission to the New York Scenic Artists Union. His designs had to be redrawn by someone else before the scenery could be constructed...