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James Stevenson's Wrong Address
Hartford was a patron of the arts, building an artists colony above Los Angeles and later a gallery in New York City, and his opinions the arts were equally strong. He criticized Abstract...
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Today's Walk: Lexington Avenue
The Chrysler BuildingThe Waldorf Astoria closed Wednesday for renovations expected to last two to three years. When it reopens, many of the hotel's rooms will be converted to apartments.02116
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #559
Ahoy, mateys! Feast ye your scurvy eyes on me entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest No. 559 for the sixth of March, 2017. The piratical drawing be by Kim Warp."Egad! Who has the sunken...
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Seen and Noted: A Photograph Signed by George Fenneman
Radio and television announcer George Fenneman inscribed a photograph "My best to Mary." The eBay listing delivers a classic sales pitch: "It looks worse than it really is in the zoomed picture."...
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Be a Popular Banjo Player
"No need to know a thing about music." A 1928 advertisement offers an easy way to become popular by learning to play the banjo or another musical instrument. The ad appeared in College Humor and was...
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Today's Entertainment: "Hamilton"
It's as good as you've heard!The Richard Rodgers TheatreThe view from the last rowThe PlaybillThe matinee cast"Hamilton" with lyricsBy Lin-Manuel MirandaOriginal Broadway CastQuick Links to Attempted...
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A Hamilton Opera by Flannery Cunningham
"Everything is legal in New Jersey." —Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton"Seeing Lin-Manuel Miranda's extraordinary musical "Hamilton" yesterday reminded me of a chance encounter last year with...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #560—Almost
Dig my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #560 for March 13, 2017. Too bad I forgot to submit it. The drawing is by Mick Stevens,"Now we tunnel in behind him and make bear...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé's Vaguement Compétitif Signed with a Musical Drawing
Jean-Jacques Sempé'sVaguement Compétitif [Vaguely Competitive] was published by Denoël in 1985. In the year of publication, Sempé inscribed a copy to musician John Philips with a drawing of a concert...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé's La Grande Panique Signed with a Musical Drawing
La Grande Panique [The Great Panic] is a 1966 cartoon collection by Jean-Jacques Sempé. A copy inscribed to pianist John Philips includes a drawing of a pianist and a harpist preparing for a...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé's Tout se Complique Signed with a Musical Drawing
A copy of Jean-Jacques Sempé'sTout se Complique [Eveerything is Complicated] is inscribed to pianist John Philips. It has an original drawing of a pianist playing, if not the Moonlight Sonata, then a...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé's Sauve Qui Peut Signed with a Musical Drawing
A copy of Jean-Jacques Sempé'sSauve Qui Peut [Every Man for Himself] (1964) is inscribed to pianist John Philips. It has an original 1966 drawing of a harp duet of sorts. The book was sold on eBay for...
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A Tip of the Hat from Jean-Jacques Sempé
A copy of Jean-Jacques Sempé'sDe Bon Matin[Early in the Morning] (1983) is inscribed to one Donatello with a drawing of a man raising his plumed hat. The inscription dates from 1999. The book was found...
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Doris Matthews: Signs of Spring
How do we know when spring is finally here? Cartoonist Doris Matthews has an unusual answer."The signs are about right for spring planting. I saw two poets in the lower pasture this morning."Doris...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #561
Beg and I just may show you my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #561 for March 20, 2017. The drawing is by Will McPhail."So we scratch each other's backs, euphemistically speaking?"Note:...
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Doris Matthews: They're Playing Our Song
Cartoonist Doris Matthews gives it the old college try:"They're playing our song."Doris Matthews, original cartoon artHuh? April 12? August 12?The Shadow knowsDoris Matthews's signature and...
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Dorothy McKay in College Humor, July 1936
Cartoonist Dorothy McKay typically published two full-page cartoons in those issues of College Humor which included her work. In the July 1936 number, she depicts two encounters between young adults...
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Dorothy McKay in College Humor, May 1937
The first of Dorothy McKay's cartoons in the May 1937 issue of College Humor is set at a burlesque show featuring a striptease. Such shows were still extremely familiar, presumably, even during the...
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Dorothy McKay in College Humor, September 1937
Much sophomoric humor—the sort that was published in, appropriately, College Humor—allows the reader to feel intellectually superior to the characters in the gags. Thus Dorothy McKay gives us two...
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Dorothy McKay in College Humor, October 1937
One surefire way to get the young collegiate or even college-bound reader on your side is to mock the duplicity of the older generation. In the October 1937 College Humor, cartoonist Dorothy McKay...
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