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1936-01 American Magazine Contents

1936/01 — Cover is a natural-color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska, with Barker Devin, photographer.

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “The Silent Staircase” — Complete in this Issue — by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell

    • STORIES:

  • “Keep the Change” — Part 1 — by Richard Connell and illustrated by A. Parker
  • “The Captive Bride” — Part 4 — by Barrett Willoughby and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “The Miracle Maker” — Conclusion — by H.G. Wells with photograph by Paul Hesse
  • “Tug of War” by Paul Deresco Augsburg and illustrated by John Falter
  • “Dancing Daughter” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • “Pinched Finger” by Ruth Burr Sanborn and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Fame Is No Lady” by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Charles Kaiser
  • “The Kid Throws a Party” by Eustace Cockrell and illustrated by William Meade Prince
  • “All’s Fair” by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger

    • STORIETTES:

  • “A Matter of Realism” by Matt Taylor
  • “Curtain Call” by Marion Mason and illustrated by Albert Dorne

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Desire by William Green
  • Forgotten Men by William Seabrook is about what happens behind locked doors at an insane asylum
  • Our New Pioneers by Arville Schaleben
  • Taxes Heavy?–Just Wait! by Frank R. Kent
  • Whozinnit? by A.H. Blank is about which movie stars are most popular with a top 50 list by the author, one of the country’s biggest exhibitors
  • Heaven, Incorporated by Hubert Kelley is about Father Divine
  • The First Time I Died by Eddie Cantor
  • I Hate Housework by Kathrun Van Rifenburgh
  • How to Get On with the Neighbors by Elizabeth Cook
  • Washington Reads the Stars by Courtney Ryley Cooper

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:
    Eight Personalities in Gravure

  • Eleanor Powell
  • Francis Sommer
  • Courntey du Rand
  • Mary Wiggins
  • Richard Langham Riedel
  • John Robert Powers
  • Mrs. Katherine Keeler
  • Mrs. Floretta D. McCutcheon

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Along the Way
  • What Would You Do? — Contest Announcement
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say