1921-04-21 Mid-Week Pictorial Magazine Contents

1921/04/21 –

Mid-Week Pictorial – Published Weekly by the New York Times Company. Measures 11″ X 16″. Volume 13, Number 8 – April 21, 1921

Largely consisting of photos with captions though with occassional blocks of longer text, the Mid-Week Pictorial is photojournalism before LIFE.

Interesting contents picked up from paging through this particular issue are as follows:

Cover: MISS MARY MILES MINTER (Photo credited to Edward Thayer Monroe)

Principals and Jury in Georgia Murder Case – 3 photos on a half page featuring the Jury which brought in a verdict of guilty against pictured John S. Williams, a wealthy Georgia Planter, who had Clyde Manning (pictured), overseer of his plantation, kill eleven negroes at his mater’s instigation

Large photo of First Home Run of 1921 Baseball Season, New York, April 13 hit by Ward of the New York Yankees

President’s First Golf Game Since Inauguration – Features large photo of President Harding with some text

Women of Note and Fashions in Vogue – 5 photos on a single page, the largest of which is a full-length shot of Tallulah Bankhead

Rowing, Racing, Baseball, Golf and Other Leading Sporting Events in America, Europe and Asia — 9 photos over 2 full-pages

President Harding Reading HIs Message at Joint Session of the Sixty-Seventh Congress, April 12, 1921 — Huge photo of Congress spans the entire 2-pages in the center of the issue with some descriptive text underneath

Death of the Ex-Kaiserin at Doorn Holland — 3 photos of Augusta Victoria, one from 1884, one family photo in 1895, a half-page photo as she appeared during the war

Exciting and Important Work of Harbor Police — 4 photos with text over a single page, includes one nearly half-page shot from New York Harbor with skyline in background

Leading Actresses on Stage and Screen and Striking Scenes from Current Theatrical Productions — 9 photos over two pages including large headshots of each John Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, a half-page photo of George Arliss in “The Green Goddess”, smaller pics of Anna Q. Nilsson, Ruth Renick, Maurine Powers, and others

Full-page ad on the back cover for D.W. Griffith’s “Dream Street” featuring Carol Dempster and Ralph Graves

Plus, believe it or not, more pages with several more photos!