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The Algonquin Round Table

DescriptionEnglish: The Algonquin Round Table in 1923: caricatures by Bill Breck. “ What more satisfying to us poor mortals than to gaze upon gods—especially intellectual gods—eating, and while eating, talking? At the Algonquin Round Table, Alexander Woollcott, with finger upraised, holds Horace Liveright spellbound, while to the extreme right F. P. A. listens cynically. Marc Connolly dogmatizes on Americana to Johnny Weaver, who throws up his hands protestingly. Next on the left, Heywood Broun and the spectacled Joe Kaufman, across the table, indulge in sad reflections on the failure of the 49ers. Behind, immaculately attired Host Case, explains to the elongated Bob Sherwood the futility of all things, especially of trying to squeeze in another chair at the table. The solitary lady, who seems awe-stricken by her surroundings, is a composite of the very few members of her sex who have been privileged to penetrate this literary arcanum. Next her, Hendrik van Loon glares thru his monocle at Bob Benchley as he scoffs at history and mankind. In the offing, disconsolate, like the Peri outside Paradise, stand the hirsute Bercovici and the hungry Burton Rascoe, the latter waiting to take Mrs. Dawson in to lunch; also Jimmy Reynolds and others longing for deification by inclusion in the sacred circle.”
Date1923
SourceShadowland (https://archive.org/details/shadowland08brew/page/n41/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorBill Breck

Rudolph Valentino All Dolled Up

DescriptionEnglish: Cartoon by Taskey from a movie magazine. “While the female portion of the country is no doubt going to think Rudolph ‘just grand’ and ‘too wonderful for words’ as Monsieur Beaucaire, the men are not going to take to the ‘dolled up’ Rudolph so enthusiastically.”
Date1924
SourceMotion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n179/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorHarry LeRoy Taskey

Husbands Eventually See the Error of Their Ways, by Taskey

DescriptionEnglish: Cartoon by Taskey from a movie magazine. “In the movies husbands eventually see the error of their ways and return happily to their wives.”
Date1924
SourceMotion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n179/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorHarry LeRoy Taskey

Reforming the Movies, by Taskey

DescriptionEnglish: Cartoon by Taskey for a 1920s movie magazine. “We advise the leaders of these reform movements, and the organizations which set out to uplift the screen, to adopt for their slogan: Actions Speak Louder Than Words.”
Date1924
SourceMotion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n205/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorHarry LeRoy Taskey