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1937-08-31 Look Magazine Contents

1937/08/31 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Volume 1, Number 14 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “The Story of a Great Man — This Priest Sacrificed His Life for Lepers” about Father Damien who died in 1889 — 3-pages
  • “The Story of Dead End — A Great Play Comes to the Screen” — 2-pages with Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney
  • “She Stands On Her Head to Keep Fit at 72” — 1-page about Elsie de Wolfe including a photo of her as an actress in her younger days
  • Factory-Built Houses…The Latest Trend in Modern Construction” — 2-pages
  • “World’s Prettiest Athlete” is one-page with a large color photo of Eleanor Holm Jarrett
  • “The Tragedy of a Gangster’s Doll” — 1-page about Kiki Roberts
  • “The Third Degree — Brutal Police Methods Sometimes Used on Prisoners” — 2-pages
  • “Umpiring … The Toughest Job in Baseball” — 3 pages
  • “How a Lie Detector Works” — 1-page
  • “How Girls Live in German Labor Camps” — 2-pages
  • “The Funniest Picture of the Year” is the 2-page center-spread is of a girl standing on her head alonside an elephant standing on its head
  • “The Story of the Iron Lung” — 2-pages
  • “Katharine Hepburn … Hollywood’s Problem Girl” — 4-pages
  • “How They Make Wax Figures of Movie Stars” — 2-pages including wax heads of Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and cover-head Greta Garbo
  • “A Plane Crashes — It Happened at a St. Louis Air Show” — 2-pages
  • “A Chorus Girl Talks About Men” — Vera Devine — 1-page
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.