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1938-05-24 Look Magazine Contents

1938/05/24 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Volume 2, Number 11 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:

  • “WPA Workers Conquer Ohio’s 54-Year-Old Mine-Fire” — 2-pages
  • “300,000,000 Catholics Pray for Pope Pius’ Health” — 2-pages
  • “Mexico’s Greatest Bullfight” — 2-pages
  • “If Fascism Comes to America … This Is What It Will Mean to You” — 6-pages
  • “How the Quintuplets Differ from Each Other” — 1-page
  • “From Stout to Slim … Miracles of Reducing” includes before and after photos of Barbara Hutton, Marion Talley, Marion Pierce and Paul Whiteman
  • “Grin and Bear It, Says Lichy” is 1-page with a photo of George Maurice Lichtenstein along with 6 of his cartoons
  • “25 Years With Cecil B. DeMille Master of Movie Spectacles” — 4-pages of photos from his films including Gloria Swanson in “Male and Female,” Dustin Farnum in 1913’s “The Squaw Man,” Geraldine Farrar in 1915’s “Carmen,” Claudette Colbert in “Four Frightened People,” plus photos of DeMille and family
  • “Royalty’s Prettiest Mother” is The Duchess of Kent — 1-1/2 pages
  • “Fred MacMurray Ducks Carole Lombard” is 4 photos on 1-page of MacMurray dunking Lombard underwater.
  • “How An Expert Plays Golf — Magic Eye Camera Catches Famed Golfer John Montague in Action” is a page and a half, one page with a 12-pic shot and the half-page with an 8-pic shot
  • “Mack Sennett — 25 Years Ago He Created the Bathing Beauty — Today He Gets an Award” — 3-1/2 pages with photos of Sennett, Louise Fazenda, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Armida, Sally Eilers, Madeline Hurlock, Toby Wing, Phyllis Haver, Vera Reynolds, and Duane Thompson
  • “Famous Narrow Escapes … of Newsreel Photographers”
  • Plus several other features.
  • 68 pages total including the covers.