Madness of War – Book Review

Was Jesus a Pacifist? PRESIDENT COOLIDGE’S Armistice Day speech, the proposed cruiser increase in our navy, the Kellogg Peace Pact and our growing commercial rivalry with England have, in the last few months, focused the attention of our citizens upon international relations. In less pleasant phraseology, this means that the attention of the ... continued

Tariff Cartoons from 1922

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German Reparations Following WW1

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The Best Movies of 1928

FOLLOWING a time-honored custom, and in the childish belief that somebody cares, this department presents its impressions of the cinema output for the six months just ended. Not to keep a palpitant public in suspense let us announce forthwith that of all the pictures we have seen since last June we select the following as having made the greatest a... continued

George Gershwin’s – An American in Paris

GEORGE GERSHWIN is an extremely fortunate young man. At the age of thirty he finds himself in the position to which the average successful composer is rarely ever able to attain under the age of forty or fifty. Having at a very early age achieved a solid success in the field of musical comedy he finds himself financially able to turn his attention ... continued

Nipper’s Greatest Hits – The 20’s

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Volume 1: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s

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Recorded Music Rolls and Discs

Years from now people will probably be amazed to recollect how few persons back in the ‘twenties were really interested in recorded music. Since the phonograph companies have climbed out of the rut and produced machines and records which give a comparatively true reproduction of musical sound, the public has wonderful facilities right at its ... continued

The Arts

Not only in passive enjoyment, but in practice, art touches our hours of leisure much more closely than it does out working time, A comparison of the census records of 1920 and 1930 shows in general that artists of various kinds are increasing more rapidly than the general population. The trend of art in America must be treated primarily as a matte... continued