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1940-01-27 Liberty Magazine Contents

1940/01/27 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover by Victor Tchetchet

Contents as follows:
EDITORIAL:

  • Is Our Official Oath of Office Meaningless? by Bernarr Macfadden

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “Captain Milledge and the One-Man Rebellion” by Wylly Folk St. John and illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson
  • “You Can Count on Me” — Liberty’s Short Short — by Wilton Matthews
  • “Rx for Love” by Eve Greene and illustrated by John Watrous
  • “The Gold Rushers” — Part VI — by Bert Green

    • SERIALS:

  • Typhoon Over Nanking — Part II — by Steve Fisher and illustrated by A.N. Simpkin
  • More Snakes Than I Can Kill — Part III — by Martin Dies
  • I Spy! — Part VIII — by Dora Macy and illustrated by Charles Bryson

    • ARTICLES:

  • Hitler and Stalin — How Long Will It Last? by Leon Trotsky with Hitler and Stalin illustration by Karl Godwin
  • Clark Gable’s Secret Wish by John Erskine with photo of Gable as Rhett Butler with Vivien Leigh in a scene from Gone With the Wind, article appears to be about the newly released Gone With the Wind (see review below)
  • The Enemy Is Here! by Emmett C. Davison
  • What Chance Has a Girl to Marry the Boss? by Clara Belle Thompson and Margaret Lukes Wise and illustrated by Phil Berry
  • The Five Unluckiest Children in the World by Marguerite Mooers Marhsall is about the Dionne Quintuplets
  • Why I Shall Raise My Boy to Be a Prizefighter by Harry Blitman

    • FEATURES:

  • Twenty Questions
  • $2,000 Stargazing Contest
  • To the Ladies by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
  • Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills includes a 4-Star review for Gone With the Wind with headline “America’s Scarlett Fever” and photo of Gable and Leigh as Rhett and Scarlett. Still, even with the 4-stars the reviewer comments: “Not that the filming of Margaret Mitchell’s novel isn’t stupendous, that it isn’t done with tremendous attention to detail. But it never moves you deeply.” Also from the review: “Vivien Leigh’s performance of the headstrong Scarlett is pictorially effective but it is superficial … Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler is better.” And finally: “But Gone With the Wind, for all that, is a celluloid landmark–and tomorrow’s screen tradition of today.” On the whole the review, including photograph, take up just under one single-page, with another review following it at the very bottom of the third column.
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Vox Pop