Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} How to get From January to December by How to get From January to December by Will Cuppy. by birthday from the calendar. TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne. American humorist and journalist. Cuppy was best-known for his mock-scientific observations of nature. One of his favorite places for observation was the Bronx Zoo, from where he perhaps picked up the following note: "The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself." Cuppy satirized with his dry and subtle humor everything from arrogant experts to modern society and popular culture. His method was to read as much as possible about his subject, and then squeeze everything into an essay of about two pages. His knowledge of history and literature was extensive, but he abandoned academic studies for the sake of journalism. William Cuppy was born in Auburn, Indiana. His father, Thomas Jefferson Cuppy (1844-1912), was a lumber buyer for a railroad, whose m iscellaneous jobs kept him away from his family for periods of time and eventually he disappeared completely. Cuppy's mother, Frances Stahl Cuppy (1855-1927), ran a millinery shop and was devoted to her children. In his childhood young Will spent happy summers on the Cuppy farm near South Whitley, where he acquired his first knowledge of nature. He attended the Auburn public schools and in 1902 he entered the , where he studied for 12 years. Most of the time he spent in the English library. He took all the courses offered by the professor of English and rhetoric Robert Herrick, Richard Morss Lovett, who taught writing and English literature, and James Weber Linn, a founder of Hull-House, a settlement house. Cuppy graduated in 1907 and continued his studies for Ph.D. , a journalist, editor and literary critic of the , said of his friend: "Cuppy had been an infant prodigy at the University, graduating at eighteen, and has stayed on until he had become the oldest infant prodigy in the history of active American student life." ( Before I Forget by Burton Rascoe, 1937, p. 176) During these years he was also active in amateur theater, worked as campus reporter for the Chicago Herald-Record , and contributed to several other Chicago newspapers. In 1914 he decided to settle for an M.A. degree and went to New York. As a writer Cuppy made his debut with Maroon Tales (1910), published by John Forber & Company. It was written while he was in graduate school. The collection included eight stories about the traditions of the college and fraternity life. "Mercifully, Most of the first edition was drowned in a flood which visited the cellar of the university press shortly thereafter." (Will Cuppy in Will Cuppy, American Satirist: a Biography by Wes D. Gehring; foreword by Mark H. Massé, 2013, p. 25) Nineteen years later came out How to Be a Hermit (1929), which was based on Cuppy's experiences on Jones Island, off , where he lived in a shack for ten years. The coast guards called his house and its inhabitant "Tottering-on-the-Brink." To regain his privacy, after the book had made his shack famous and it began draw too much attention, Cuppy moved to Manhattan. Cuppy became in the 1930s a well-known figure in New York literary circles. Besides his own writings he edited i n the 1940s three collections of crime and mystery stories. Most of the stories in How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931), the first book in trilogy on natural history, had earlier appeared in New Yorker . Cuppy was a book reviewer for the old New York Herald-Tribune – the column was published under the title 'Mystery and Adventure.' He also wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, but was fired after a three-week trial stint from his job as a New York Post columnit because his editor felt that his pieces were too obscure for the readers. When New Yorker returned his article on Thomas Blanket, he stopped writing for the magazine. True to his reclusive nature, Cuppy never married. Though he refused to do anything remotely social, he co-hosted in 1933 with the actress Jeanne Owen, who became a prominent fixture of the New York food scene, a NBC radio show, Just Relax, about his hermit life, pets, and historical figures. One of his closest fiends was Isabel Parsons, a columnist at the Herald Tribune . They quarreled in the 1940s and never spoke to each other again. In Cuppy had a city apartment, where he did his writing at night. "I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers." ('Cuppy, Will(iam Jacob),' in World Authors 1900-1950 , Volume 1, edited by Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens, 1996 , p. 650) Overcoming his shyness Cuppy performed monologues several weeks at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, but after a disastrous evening, when he got too nervous, he gave up public appearances and wrote an article entitled 'My Careers and What Happened to Them.' Will Cuppy died on on September 19, in 1949. Suffering from depression and declaining health, and upon learning that he was threatened with eviction from his West 11th Street apartment, he had taken about one and half weeks before an overdose of sleeping pills. Cuppy was buried in Auburn's Evergreen Cemetery next to his mother. In mid-1980s Cuppy's readers placed a new headstone for his grave, to honor the memory of the writer. In 2003 a nomenclature committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) honored Cuppy by naming an asteroid after him. "15017 Cuppy," originally discovered by the astronomer Edward Bowell, is in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The name was suggested by Mr. Michael Walter from Auburn; Edward Bowell welcomed the idea and revealed in his reply that he was also a fan of Cuppy's writings. Cuppy's The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), edited by his friend Fred Feldkamp and published posthumously, spent four months on best-seller list. This well planned and researched book went through the great historical figures from ancient Egypt to Queen Victoria. "It's the history book of the year," the CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow concluded of the work. ('Afterword' by Thomas Maeder, in The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy, 2019, p. 213) Feldkamp also edited How to Get from January to December (1951). Cuppy's quotations have appeared in several anthologies, among others in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations , and his satirical works are still in print. Both creationists and evolutionists have found Cuppy's essays invaluable source of witty remarks, such as: "The Age of Reptiles ended because it had gone on long enough and it was all mistake in the first place." ( How to Become Extinct by Will Cuppy, illustrated by , 2008, p. 104; originally published in 1941) Selected works: Maroon Tales: University of Chicago Stories, 1910 How to Be a Hermit; or, Bachelor Keeps House, 1929 How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, 1931 (illustrated by Jacks; with an introduction by P.G. Wodehouse, 1934) Garden Rubbish & Other Country Bumps [by] W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman, 1937 (with footnotes by Will Cuppy) The Great Bustard and Other People, 1941 (containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct, illustrated by Jacks and William Steig) How to Become Extinct, 1941 (illustrated by William Steig) World's Great Detective Stories: American and English Masterpieces, 1943 (dited, with an introduction by Will Cuppy) World's Great Mystery Stories: American and English Masterpieces, 1943 (edited with an introduction, by Will Cuppy) Murder without Tears: An Anthology of Crime, 1946 (edited by Will Cuppy) How to Attract the Wombat, 1949 (with illust. by Ed Nofziger) The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950 (edited by F. Feldkamp, drawings by William Steig; with an afterword by Thomas Maeder, 1984) How to Get from January to December, 1951 (edited by F. Feldkamp, drawings by John Ruge) Some rights reserved Petri Liukkonen (author) & Ari Pesonen. 2008-2020. HOW TO GET FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER. Again edited by Fred Feldkamp, as was the popular The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), this brings the Cuppy-conscious a Cuppy-Calendar, for each day of the year is paragraphed by some unimportant, insignificant, unrelated, unnecessary bit of information. There are natal days of historical figures, not all well-known, nature notes, queries from readers (who make no bones about their attitudes -- ""Disillusioned"", ""Distracted"", ""Disgusted"", ""Uneasy"", etc.), pinpricks of science, quibbles about the calendar, mites and motes of history, literature, language, medicine, music, and on and on. Cuppy-ists will find their favorites, whether it be his stand on mice, advice about porcupines, or his remarks on U. S. Grant's name. You know your market, but this is for a plus sale either for a gift or bedside reading. Zitate von Will Cuppy. Will Cuppy war US-armerikanischer Schriftsteller, Journalist und Literaturkritiker. Zitate Will Cuppy. „Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.“ „A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.“ „We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.“ „He [Pericles] reduced the power of the Council of the Areopagus, a group of feeble old men who held their jobs for life and whose duty it was to declare everything null and void… [Footnote] He also revoked their right to censor the private lives of the citizens. This was nasty of Pericles, for about the only pleasure the old fellows had was catching some citizen doing what he shouldn't. After that, they had to use their imaginations.“ The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Pericles. „The colonists, it seems, had to "pay taxes to which their consent had never been asked."“ Footnote: Today we pay taxes but our consent has been asked, and we have told the government to go ahead and tax us all they want to. We like it. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part V: Merrie England, George III. „I think you are absolutely right about everything, except I think humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.“ From a letter to , 1936, about Eastman's book, The Enjoyment of Laughter ISBN 0-38413-740-7 (reprint). Eastman mss. http://www.indiana.edu/ liblilly/lilly/mss/html/eastman.html, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. „The fact is that building a pyramid is fairly easy, aside from the lifting. You just pile up stones in receding layers, placing one layer carefully upon another, and pretty soon you have a pyramid. You can't help it. In other words, it is not in the nature of a pyramid to fall down.“ Footnote: It probably could not fall down if it tried. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part I: It Seems There Were Two Egyptians, Cheops, or Khufu. How to get From January to December by Will Cuppy. 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[1] [2] Cuppy's father, Thomas Jefferson Cuppy (1844–1912), was at different times a grain dealer, a seller of farm implements and a lumber buyer for the Eel River branch of the Wabash Railroad. His mother, Frances Stahl Cuppy (1855–1927), was a seamstress and worked in a small shop located next to the family home in Auburn. [3] Young Cuppy spent summers at a farm belonging to his grandmother, Sarah Collins Cuppy (1813–1900), on the banks of the Eel River near South Whitley, Indiana. He later said that this was where he acquired his early knowledge of the natural world which he satirized in his writings. [4] Cuppy graduated from Auburn High School in 1902 and went on to the University of Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907. As an undergraduate, he belonged to Phi Gamma Delta, acted in amateur theater and worked as campus reporter for several Chicago newspapers, notably the Record Herald and the Daily News . He lingered at Chicago seven more years as a graduate student in English literature. He did not show much interest in his studies, but in 1910 produced his first book, Maroon Tales , a collection of short stories about university life. In 1914 he pulled together a short master's thesis, [5] took his degree and left for New York. Literary career [ edit | edit source ] Will Cuppy's childhood home in Auburn, Indiana, in 2004. Cuppy's maternal grandfather George W. Stahl built the house, later extensively modified, in 1851. Cuppy supported himself in New York by writing advertising copy while he tried unsuccessfully to write a play. [6] He served briefly stateside in World War I as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps. [7] Later he began contributing book reviews to the New York Tribune , where his college friend Burton Rascoe (1892–1957) was literary . [8] According to Rascoe, it was his assistant who "coaxed and coddled" Cuppy into writing reviews and making a success of his career as a writer. [9] In 1926, Cuppy began writing a weekly "Light Reading" column, later renamed "Mystery and Adventure", for the Tribune's successor, the New York Herald Tribune . He continued writing the column until his death 23 years later, reviewing a career total of more than 4,000 titles of crime and detective fiction. [10] Seeking refuge from city noise and hay fever (which he referred to as "rose cold"), Cuppy "hermited" from 1921 to 1929 in a shack on Jones Island, just off Long Island's South Shore. The literary result of Cuppy's seaside exile was How to be a Hermit , a humorous look at home economics that went through six printings in four months when it appeared in 1929. The book's subtitle, A Bachelor Keeps House , reflects the fact that Cuppy never married. The crew at the nearby Zachs Inlet Coast Guard Station shared their food and recipes with Cuppy and helped him repair his shack. [11] Encroachment by the new Jones Beach State Park forced Cuppy to abandon full-time residence on the island and return to New York's noise and soot. A special dispensation from New York's parks czar (1888–1981) let Cuppy keep his shack. He made regular visits to his place at the beach until the end of his life. [12] From his Greenwich Village apartment, Cuppy continued to turn out magazine articles and books. He always worked from notes jotted on 3x5- inch index cards. Cuppy would amass hundreds of cards even for a short article. His friend and literary executor Fred Feldkamp (1914–1981) reported that Cuppy sometimes read more than 25 thick books on a subject before he wrote a single word about it. [13] External images http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/d7fbf270-6065-478d-b010-beee6699e5f4/5352750/-1465620075? _phsrc=wwS5&usePUBJs=true The link is to an image of Will Cuppy that appeared in Publishers Weekly in 1937. The picture is from a Bobbs- Merrill party for Marjorie Hillis, author of Orchids on Your Budget , which became the number-five nonfiction bestseller of 1937. Shown from left to right are: 1) an unidentified model dressed as "Miss R," one of the "case histories" in the book; 2) Marjorie Hillis; 3) Will Cuppy (standing); and 4) author Constance Lindsay Skinner. http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/1ade8c52-d5a4-4486-958a-f45c5494c87f/5352750/-1465620075? _phsrc=wwS5&usePUBJs=true The link is to an image of Will Cuppy that appeared on the dust jacket of the first edition of The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody . It is captioned, "One of the last photographs taken of Will Cuppy in his apartment." http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/afa6c7b1-9806-4593-9007-4edf7d42a20d/5352750/-1465620075?_phsrc=wwS5&usePUBJs=true Will Cuppy discussing mystery stories on John Towner Frederick's "Of Men and Books" radio program in 1942. http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/earhart&CISOPTR=3585&CISOBOX=1&REC=4 The link is to an image of a telegram from Will Cuppy received by in London on May 22, 1932, after she flew solo across the Atlantic. Writing funny but factual magazine articles was Cuppy's real talent. He enjoyed a brief success in 1933 with a humorous talk show on NBC radio with actress and gourmet cook Jeanne Owen, [14] but he flopped on the lecture circuit. [15] Basically shy, Cuppy was happiest when he was rummaging through scholarly journals prizing out facts to copy out on his note cards. According to Feldkamp, one of Cuppy's favorite places was the Bronx Zoo, "where he felt really relaxed." [16] Many of Cuppy's articles for The New Yorker and other magazines were later collected as books: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931); and How to Become Extinct (1941). Cuppy also edited three collections of mystery stories: World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); World's Great Detective Stories (1943); and Murder Without Tears (1946). His last animal book, How to Attract the Wombat , appeared two months after his death in 1949. Cuppy's best-known work, a satire on history called The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody , was unfinished when he died. Its humor ranges from the remark that, when the Nile floods receded, the land, as far as the eye can see, is "covered by Egyptologists", to the detailed dissection, quotation, and parody, in the chapter on , of the picture of Alexander as an idealist for world peace. The book's appeal can be gauged by the fact that CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and his colleague Don Hollenbeck took turns reading from it on the air "until the announcer cracked up." [17] The Decline and Fall was completed and published in 1950 by Fred Feldkamp, who sifted through nearly 15,000 of Cuppy's carefully filed note cards to get the book into print within a year of his friend's death. Feldkamp also edited a second posthumous volume, a comic almanac titled How to Get from January to December , that appeared in 1951. Cuppy's last years were marked by poor physical health and increasing depression. Facing eviction from his apartment, he took an overdose of sleeping pills and died ten days later on September 19, 1949, at St. Vincent's Hospital. [18] Will Cuppy's grave marker in Evergreen Cemetery in Auburn, Indiana. Cuppy's cremated remains were returned to his hometown and buried in a grave next to his mother's in Evergreen Cemetery. His grave was unmarked until 1985, when local donors purchased a granite headstone with the inscription, "American Humorist". In 2003, Cuppy received another memorial when a committee of the International Astronomical Union approved the name "15017 Cuppy" for an asteroid. [19] Although Cuppy was reclusive and cultivated the image of a curmudgeon, he had many friends in New York's literary circles. One of them was the poet William Rose Benét (1886–1950) who, writing in the Saturday Review of Literature , penned this remembrance of him: “ He had the haunted look of the true humorist. All his friends loved him. [20] ” Cuppy documents [ edit | edit source ] Cuppy's papers, including thousands of his notecards, are archived at the University of Chicago Library. [21] A number of his letters to his friend and Herald Tribune colleague Isabel Paterson are among Paterson's papers archived at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa. [22] Two of Cuppy's letters to Max Eastman are among Eastman's papers at Indiana University's Lilly Library. [23] The Frank Sullivan Collection at also contains correspondence from Cuppy. [24] The papers of John Towner Frederick at the include letters written by Cuppy in the 1940s relating to Frederick's Of Men and Books series for CBS Radio. [25] Four letters from Cuppy to children's author are among her papers at the [26] Iranian controversy [ edit | edit source ] A Persian translation by Najaf Daryabandari of Cuppy's The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody was published in 1972 under the title of Thus Act the Great ). [27] The good quality of the Persian prose and the fact of Cuppy's being unknown ,ﭼﻨﯿﻦ ﮐﻨﻨﺪ ﺑﺰرﮔﺎن) Čenin konand bozorgān in led to speculation that the book was not a translation, but an original book by Daryabandari and possibly a collaborator, who was speculated to be . It was guessed that this had been done in order to bypass the Pahlavi era censor. Daryabandari denied it several times, even after the Iranian Revolution. The issue was not publicly settled until the satire magazine Golagha ran an article about their "discovery" of Cuppy, which proved Daryabandari right. [ citation needed ] Tag: Will Cuppy. In my last post we visited the Central Park Zoo, circa 1931, and found a collection of animals displayed as curiosities in barren enclosures that in no way resembled natural habitats. Aug. 29, 1931 cover by Constantin Alajalov. It’s hard to say if those creatures were better or worse off than their cousins at the American Museum of Natural History, a short walk across the park to the northwest. Unlike the zoo, the tigers and rhinos at the museum were displayed in naturalistic, almost dreamlike settings. But then again they were dead; indeed, all that remained of them were their skins, skillfully fitted over skeletons of wood and clay. SIMULACRUM…Clockwise, from top left, American Museum of Natural History staff mounting rhinoceros and Indian elephant, circa 1930; preparing African buffalo group diorama; staff cleaning elephant skin in preparation for mounting on a frame consisting of a skull and some wood. This would be covered with clay before the skin is fitted. (vintag.es) E.B. White stopped by the famed museum to take a look at its new Asiatic Hall, and filed this report for “The Talk of the Town.” The animals pictured below came from a couple of British big game hunters, gathered during expeditions in the 1910s and 1920s… PLEASE HOLD STILL…American Museum of Natural History staff prepare the tiger group diorama in 1931. The display was in the new Asiatic Hall referred to by E.B. White . (vintage.es) SURVIVORS OF A SORT…Nearly 90 years later, the tiger group is still on display at the American Museum of Natural History, now in the Hall of Biodiversity. (AMNH) STILL THE SAME…This Asiatic leopard diorama, which so impressed E.B. White, also survives to this day, in the Hall of Asian Mammals at AMNH. (atlasobscura) NEVER-ENDING BATTLE…The Sambar stag diorama, dating to 1911, is also mentioned by White in his article. (atlasobscura) I am delighted that the AMNH (which I visited in December as an avid fan of diorama art) preserves these exhibits, which not only display animals — many now endangered — but also the artistry of painters, sculptors and taxidermists from a century ago. Sadly, many museums are scrapping these cultural treasures and replacing them with gaudy, interactive displays and video screens. An article in Newsweek (“Museum Dioramas Are as Endangered as the Animals They Contain,” Aug. 2, 2015) notes that around 2008 “the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., closed two diorama halls and reopened them with video screens, interactive features and stand-alone specimens where the dioramas had been.” In other words, the specimens were removed from naturalistic scenes and displayed as stand-alone curiosities, rather like those poor animals in the Central Park Zoo of yesteryear. Everyday Icons. Gilbert Seldes profiled industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904 – 1972), who along with contemporaries Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes was among celebrity designers of the midcentury. Like Bel Geddes, Dreyfuss was a well-known Broadway set designer who would go on to become an industrial designer in the era of streamlining. But unlike Loewy and Bel Geddes, Dreyfuss went well beyond mere styling, taking a practical, scientific approach to problems that would not only make products better looking, but also safer and more comfortable to use. An excerpt: GOT MY START IN SHOW BIZ… Henry Dreyfuss in 1946, and his 1930-31 design of the RKO Theatre in Davenport, Iowa (now the Adler Theatre). (Wikipedia/qctimes.com) ICONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE…Some of Dreyfuss’s designs included, top row: the Western Electric Model 500 telephone (center), which replaced the clunkier Model 300 (left) in 1950; the Hoover model 150 vacuum cleaner, from 1936; middle row: Dreyfuss designs for the New York Central Railroad’s streamlined Mercury train (1936); and the NYC Hudson locomotive for the Twentieth Century Limited (1938); bottom row: Dreyfuss designed things as varied as tractors for John Deere (1960); the Honeywell T87 circular wall thermostat (1953–present); and the Polaroid SX-70 Land camera (1972). Body-Building Barnum. Another well-known figure of the 1930s was Bernarr Macfadden (1868 – 1955), an early proponent of physical culture who would prefigure such notables as Charles Atlas, Jack LaLanne , and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But none of them were quite like McFadden, who also created a pulp publishing empire (among his magazines: Liberty , True Detective , True Story , True Romances, Photoplay and the notorious tabloid newspaper The New York Evening Graphic). READ ALL ABOUT IT…Macfadden’s Evening Graphic was all about scandal, and especially sex and murder. Macfadden also established numerous “healthatoriums” across the East and Midwest, including (in 1931) his latest venture, the Physical Culture Hotel near Dansville, New York. E.B. White explained, in his “Notes and Comment”… MCFADDEN SHOWS OFF HIS BOD in 1910 (left) at age 42, and at age 55 in 1923. (Wikipedia) BEFORE AND AFTER…Mcfadden acquired the 1882 Jackson Sanatorium near Dansville, NY in 1931 and renamed it the Physical Culture Hotel. Circa 1930s images at top contrast with the condition of the property today — it fell into disrepair after MacFadden’s death in 1955, and closed for good in 1971. Known to locals as the “Castle on the Hill” in its heyday, it can still be glimpsed by motorists traveling on I-390. (bernarrmacfadden.com/abandonedplaces.livejournal.com) For the Birds. When I came across “Farewell to Birds,” on page 17, I thought for a moment it was one of James Thurber’s animal parodies (there was even a Thurber cartoon at the bottom of the page), but then I noticed our writer was Will Cuppy, (1884-1949) who wrote in the Thurber vein (Cuppy was ten years Thurber’s senior) and like Thurber, was a bit of a curmudgeon. From 1931 until his death Cuppy wrote satirical pieces for the New Yorker that were later collected into books (also like Thurber). Here is an excerpt from “Farewell to Birds.” THE SIMPLE LIFE…Satirist Will Cuppy (center, in 1932) and two of his early books. How to be a Hermit (1929) was a humorous look at his life residing in a Jones Island seaside shack from 1921 to 1929 (he was escaping city noise and hayfever); How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes was a 1931 compilation of Cuppy’s articles, including the one above. Puttin’ on the Ritz. Lois Long, newly divorced from cartoonist Peter Arno , concluded her fashion column (“On and Off the Avenue”) by telling readers about her “swell new hairdo”… HAVE A SEAT, LOIS…The perm room at Charles of the Ritz, 1932. Your Majesty. Speaking of new looks, Central Park West was boasting the addition of a new “skyscraper apartment building” called the Majestic. “The Sky Line” reported: APTLY NAMED…The Majestic at Central Park West. (Pinterest) Another building making its mark was the Parc Vendôme on West 57th, offering more than 600 apartments with annual rents ranging from $1,100 to $6,600. Condos in the same building today range from $495,000 to $5,495,000. BREAD BOX INCLUDED…The Parc Vendôme on West 57th. (street easy.com) From Our Advertisers. Henry Mandel , one of New York City’s most ambitious developers in the 1920s and early 30s, touted the Parc Vendôme in this advertisement… …I wonder if Lois Long (see above) got one of these “dos” at the Ritz…I love the snob appeal of this ad — “The New Paris Way of Doing Your Hair”… …which seemed to work…here is a random sample of Hollywood stars in 1931, all wearing the look… DOING THE WAVE…From left, Tilly Losch, Constance Bennett , and Barbara Stanwyck. …other ads appealing to the Continental lifestyle…a very understated yet elegant ad for Guerlain lipstick, and Nellie Harrington-Levine gave us a disinterested deb sporting “the wave,” a cigarette and a velvet dress… …and Pond’s continued its parade of rich society women to sell its cold cream…here we are presented with “Mrs. Morgan Belmont,” aka Margaret Frances Andrews (1894 – 1945), a Newport socialite and prize-winning show dog breeder… Andrews didn’t limit herself to cold cream, here appearing in a 1927 ad for Simmons mattresses… Margaret Frances Andrews was a noted dog breeder, seen above at the Newport Dog Show around 1915; below, Andrews had a small role in the 1920 Mary Pickford film Way Down East. Andrews, at left, was credited as “Mrs. Morgan Belmont.” …and we move on to this sad little ad from the back pages, featuring something called “Peeko,” which apparently mimicked the flavors of Rye, Gin and Rum…it must have tasted awful… …our cartoons feature Perry Barlow, and I can’t quite tell if this guy is drinking a soda or some bootleg gin, which was often sold at select gas stations… …a two-page sequence from Gardner Rea … … Otto Soglow went fishing… …and commiserated with a couple of unemployed guys whose plight is ignored by the celebrity-obsessed media… … Alan Dunn hit the lecture circuit… … Kemp Starrett sketched some wink-wink, nudge-nudge at the men’s store… …and we close with James Thurber , and the trials of our elders…