__________________________________________________ Map Of Interest: John Held Jr.’s New York Night Clubs This Spill fave site, Attempted Bloggery, looks at a 1930s map of Manhattan’s night clubs by the one-and-only John Held, Jr. See the full map here ___________________ John Held Jr.’s A-Z Entry John Held Jr (Photo source: Sketchbook of American Humorists, 1938) Born, January 10, 1889,
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The New Yorker’s First Christmas Issue –Above: S.W. Reynold’s cover — his second of a dozen for The New Yorker The not quite year old New Yorker was still finding its sea legs by the end of 1925. Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters had yet to appear; Ellin Mackay’s “Why We Go to Cabarets” had just recently broken through and started
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J.C. Duffy IDs His Bill Maher “Decoded” Cartoon J.C. Duffy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998, has posted his New Yorker drawing that was discussed (or “decoded” as Mr. Maher puts it) in the latest clip of Maher describing New Yorker cartoons and then reading the captions (without actually showing the drawing itself). Mr. Maher’s decoding is
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Book And Drawings Of Interest A week or so ago I was pleased to hear from a good friend of the Spill, the author, Steve Stoliar, that he’d scored an inscribed copy of George Ade’s The Old-Time Saloon. Steve told me: “The description said it was a humorous look at how dull things have gotten with Prohibition in effect (It still
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