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1936-12-26 Liberty Magazine Contents December 26, 1936

1936/12/26 —
Cover painted by Arthur Smith

SHORT STORIES:

  • “Master Villon Has No Luck at All” by John Erskine with illustration by Marshall Frantz
  • “Leave Up the Star’ by Lenora Mattingly Weber with illustration by Karoly Szanto
  • “Gift Unopened” — Liberty’s Short Short by Elizabeth and Nard Jones
  • “Dear Boss–” by Bert Green

    • SERIALS:

  • “Music in His Feet” — Conclusion by Robert Neal Leath with illustration by Frank Swain
  • “Wendel Tells All” — Part 5 by Paul H. Wendel
  • “Wise Virgin” — Part 3 by Walton Green with illustration by Edgar McGraw

    • ARTICLES:

  • Is Clark Gable a Changed Man by Adela Rogers St. John
  • Lindbergh’s First Year of Self-Exile by Frederick L. Collins
  • The Spanish Crown Prince Talks About the Throne by Count Covadonga
  • Peace on Earth — Why We Have Wars by H.L. Mencken
  • The Day They Celebrate Too by Eleanor Pegwhistle
  • Underworld Nights by Edward Doherty with illustration by Jay McArdle
  • Thrills in a Basket: Why 16,000,000 Americans Have Made Basketball the Most Popular Indoor Sport by Nat Holman

    • REGULAR FEATURES:

  • Editorial: What the New Deal Should Do for Us, by Bernarr Macfadden
  • Twenty Questions
  • Life in the Shadows; Love on the Run – Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills, with 4-star review of Winterset plus 1-star for General Spanky.
  • Good Books by Oliver Swift
  • $1,000 Amateur Movie Contest
  • Vox Pop
  • It Happened In–

    • 1924-12 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for December 1924

    1924/12 — Contents as follows:

  • The Christian Statesman by Edgar Lee Masters
  • The Grammarian — A Story by John McClure
  • Trial by Jury by Harry Elmer Barnes
  • Americana
  • Editorial
  • Therapeutic Thaumaturgy by Arthur J. Cramp
  • Congressional Letters by Hilton Butler
  • High Dignitaries of State by James M. Cain
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken

  • Conclusion — A Story by L.M. Hussey

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Modern Infantry by Elbridge Colby
  • The Ring That Rules Our Opera by Charles Henry Meltzer

  • As Latin America Sees Us by Isaac Goldberg
  • The Burden of the Cross by Don C. Seitz
  • A Whitman Manuscript by Emory Holloway
  • Why Go to College? by Richard Burton
  • This Being and Immigrant by George A. Schreiner
  • Varieties of Homo Sapiens by D.W. Fisher
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-11 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for November 1924

    1924/11 — Contents as follows:

  • On Doing the Right Thing by Albert Jay Nock
  • Jesus and His Biographers by Alphonse B. Miller
  • The Uninvited — A Story by Thomas Boyd
  • Politician: Female by James M. Cain
  • The Liberty Bell by Henry J. Ford
  • Americana

  • Editorial

  • The Biology of Population Growth by Raymond Pearl
  • The Shroud of Color — A Poem by Countee P. Cullen

  • Clinical Notes by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
  • The Umbilical Cord by William Seagle
  • Nantucket by Walter Prichard Eaton

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Wood Alcohol Bugaboo by L.M. Hussey

  • The New Outlook in Weather Forecasting by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

  • Teaching the Young to Think by D.W. Fisher
  • William Kidd, Gentleman by Homer H. Cooper
  • More Wokr for Uplifters by James Stevens
  • The Hammer of Heretics by R.F. Dibble
  • Aesthetics: A Palaver by Lewis Mumford
  • Malaria by Thomas J. LeBlanc
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-10 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for October 1924

    1924/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Arsenals of Hatred by Duncan Aikman
  • Notes of an Amateur Father by Chester T. Crowell
  • Masterpiece — A Story by Robert B. Garey
  • Editorial
  • The Yankee in Paris by Vincent O’Sullivan
  • The Question of Racial Purity by Franz Boas
  • Americana
  • Why Men Leave Kansas by Charles B. Driscoll
  • The Dilemma of the Negro by W.E.B. DuBois
  • Walt Whitman on Himself – From the Diary of Horace Traubel
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Government by Yokel by Orville A. Welsh

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • On Literary Groups by Maxwell Bodenheim

  • The Advantage of Senator La Follette by Alexander Harvey
  • Birth Control: An Unsolved Problem by Morris Dishbein
  • The Sentimentalist — A Story by Ben Hecht
  • Devastated Regions by Lewis Mumford
  • Highway Personages by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • Wells of Correct Thought by Bruce Gould
  • Notes on the Vernacular by Louise Pound
  • The Railroads on the Griddle by Richard Hoadley Tingley
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-09 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for September 1924

    1924/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The Anglo-Saxon Myth by Henry J. Ford
  • Song Tournament: New Style — A Poem by Louis Untermeyer
  • Voila, Anatole France by Jean-Jacques Brousson
  • A Start in Life — A Story by Ruth Suckow
  • The Japanese Bugaboo by David Warren Ryder
  • Editorial
  • Morals in the Two-A-Day by Marian Spitzer
  • Americana
  • The Statesman as Artist by Duncan Aikman
  • Fads in Health Legislation by Morris Fishbein
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Devil’s Advocate by R.F. Dibble

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Koussevitsky by Ernest Newman
  • What Is Disease? by Paul H. DeKruif
  • Architecture and the Machine by Lewis Mumford – 3-1/2 pages
  • Mr. Durant — A Story by Dorothy Parker
  • American Portraits – 7: The Country Banker by Charles B. Driscoll
  • A Boyhood in the Bush by Thomas J. LeBlanc
  • The Law: First Year by William Seagle
  • Hunting Bolsheviks in 1798 by Henry Elmer Barnes
  • Gentlemen All by D.R. Potter
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-07 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for July 1924

    1924/07 — Contents as follows:

  • The Presidency by Charles C. Thach
  • Champion of Champions by R.F. Dibble is about John L. Sullivan – 7 pages
  • M’Liss and Louie — A Poem by Carl Sandburg
  • The Devil Born in Them – A Story by Chester T. Crowell
  • Editorial
  • Stanley Hall – A Memory by A.E. Hamilton
  • Americana
  • Mr. Munsey by Robert L. Duffus
  • Where the Law Fails by Homer H. Cooper
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • American Portraits – 5: Babbitt Emeritus by Parkhurst Whitney
  • Whitman on His Contemporaries — From the Camden Diary of Horace Traubel

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Insect vs. Insect by H.M. Parshley
  • The Gods of Modern Music by W.J. Henderson
  • The Wages of Peace by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
  • The Dutch on the Delaware by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • The American Chemist by L.M. Hussey
  • The Mouse — A Story by May Freud Dickenson
  • Saving Souls by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-08 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for August 1924

    1924/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Mr. Coolidge by Frank R. Kent
  • The Gates of Tamerlane — A Story by Achmed Abdullah
  • Godey’s Lady’s Book by Richard Fay Warner
  • Canned Music and the Composer by Harry B. Smith
  • The Trial of the Dead Cleopatra — A Poem by Vachel Lindsay
  • The Ordeal of Prohibition by Clarence S. Darrow
  • A Note on Tights by Carl Van Vechten
  • Americana
  • El Paso by Owen P. White
  • American Portraits – 6: The Advertising Agent by Orrick Johns
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Mercy of God by Theodore Dreiser

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Jazz by Virgil Thomson
  • Cavalry in Modern War by G.A. Moore
  • The Books of Dard Hunter by Nelson Antrim Crawford
  • The Inquiring Mind by Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
  • Pariah — A Story by Chester T. Crowell
  • A Forgotten American Statesman by Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. about Edward Livingston
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-06 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for June 1924

    1924/06 — Contents as follows:

  • The Righteous Perish by Mary Alden Hopkins
  • Call for a Literary Historian by Fred Lewis Pattee
  • Absolution — A Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Rise and Fall of Homeopathy by Morris Fishbein
  • Editorial
  • The Black Duck Dinner by James Stevens
  • Americana
  • Satan in the Dance-Hall by Gregory Mason
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The English of the Negro by George Philip Krapp
  • This City Wind — A Sonnet by Leonora Speyer
  • Passing — A Sonnet by David Morton
  • American Journalism Today by Chester T. Crowell

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Walt Whitman and the Aristidean by Thomas Ollive Mabbott
  • What Is a Race? by Melville J. Herskovits
  • The Training of the Soldier by Arlington B. Conway
  • American Portraits — 4: Medicine Doctor by L.M. Hussey
  • International Languages by Albert leon Guerard
  • The War Against Birth Control by Margaret Sanger
  • The Senate’s Last Leader by Charles Willis Thompson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-05 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for May 1924

    1924/05 — Contents as follows:

  • The Peace Myth by Virgil Jordan
  • John Ruskin by Frank Harris
  • The Case of Bedrich Zatloukal — A Story by Paul Tanaquil
  • Editorial
  • The American Cigar by Carl Avery Werner
  • Watson of Indiana by John W. Owens
  • The Right to Consolation by William Seagle
  • Americana
  • Modern American Printing by Harry Lyman Koopman
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Lowell by C. Hartley Grattan
  • The South and the Offensive by Gerald W. Johnson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Mathematics in the United States Today by R.D. Carmichael
  • Alfred Stieglitz and His Work by Herbert J. Seligmann

  • The Campaign of B.C. 588-86 by K.C. McIntosh
  • Rachel and Her Children — A Story by Frances Newman
  • American Books in France by Lewis Galantiere
  • The Substance of Poetry by John McClure
  • Pedagogue: Old Style by James M. Cain
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-03 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for March 1924

    1924/03 — Volume 1, Number 3

    Contents as follows:

  • Cretheus and the Lions by Stephen French Whitman
  • The John Brown Myth by Leland H. Jenks
  • Chautauqua – Its Technic by Gregory Mason
  • Reflections of a Bible-Reader by Arthur Davison Ficke

  • Six Orchestral Conductors by D.W. Sinclair
  • Editorial
  • John Maroufaz and His Sons — A Story by W.L. George
  • Americana

  • Every Science an Exact Science by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • The Two Tafts by Charles Willis Thompson
  • Mansfield Park and America by Arthur Bingham Walkley
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Portrait of an Old Mother — A Poem by Alice Mary Kimball

  • Byron in America by Samuel C. Chew
  • American Portraits – 2: The Washington Job-Holder by Harvey Ferguson
  • The Sire of Kiwanis by William Feather
  • Spanish Nights’ Entertainment by C.E. Bechhofer

  • The American View of Politics by Johan J. Smertenko
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Reviews by Other Hands:

  • The Popularization of Science by H.M. Parshley
  • Walter von Molo by Friedrich Schonemann

    • 1924-02 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for February 1924

    1924/02 — Volume 1, Number 2

    Contents as follows:

  • All God’s Chillun Got Wings — A Play by Eugene O’Neill
  • The Grammarian and His Language by Edward Sapir
  • The Part-Time Missionary by Howell Sykes
  • Editorial
  • Caught — A Play by Sherwood Anderson

  • Americana
  • Pinchot by Charles Willis Thompson
  • More Light on Whitman by Emory Holloway
  • Osteopathy by Morris Fishbein
  • American Portraits — 1: The Labor Leader by James M. Cain
  • Clincal Notes by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
  • The Ku-Kluxer by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Panorama by John McClure

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Alcohol and the Duration of Life by Raymond Pearl

  • Modern First Editions by George H. Sargent
  • The American Painter by Guy Eglington

  • Heredity and the Uplift by H.M. Parshley
  • Carrying Civilization to Mexico by Carleton Beals
  • The Comic Patriot by Carl Van Doren
  • A Note on Shakespeare by Leon Kellner
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Additional Book Reviews:

  • Origins of the Revolution by W.F. Robinson
  • The Case of Luther by John E. Lind

    • 1924-01 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for January 1924

    1924/01 — This issue is Volume 1, Number 1

    Contents as follows:

  • The Lincoln Legend by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • Four Poems by Theodore Dreiser – 1) The Little Flowers of Love and Wonder; 2) Proteus; 3) For a Moment the Wind Died; 4) Take Hands
  • Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren
  • Four Generations by Ruth Suckow
  • Huneker on Huneker by James Gibbons Huneker
  • Editorial
  • The Drool Method in History by Harry E. Barnes
  • Mr. Moore and Mr. Chew by Sameul C. Chew
  • Americana
  • Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd
  • The Tragic Hiram by John W. Owens
  • Two Years of Disarmament by Miles Martindale
  • Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Munsterberg
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Communist Hoax by James Oneal
  • The Weaver’s Tale by John McClure

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The New Sky-Line by C. Grant La Farge
  • The Pother About Glands by L.M. Hussey
  • The Test of English by George Philip Krapp
  • Sweeney’s Grail by Leonard Lanson Cline
  • The New Thought by Woodbridge Riley
  • On a Second-Rate War by X–
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Additional Book Reviews:

  • Once More, the Immortals by James Branch Cabell
  • Brandes and Croce by Ernest Boyd
  • Brazil from Within by Isaac Goldberg

    • 1956-02-11 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    1956/02/11 —
    Front cover features Artur Rubinstein

    Contents as follows:

    IDEAS

  • Mr. Lincoln Visits Richmond by Richard Hanser
  • Mencken 1880-1956 by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Poverty of Imitation: An Editorial
  • Rubinstein, Music and Piano Playing by Irving Kolodin
  • Rousseau: Totalitarian? by J. Salwyn Schapiro

    • BOOKS:

  • The Capri Letters by Mario Soldati – Reviewed by Harrison Smith
  • The Frozen Jungle by Lawrence Earl – Reviewed by Walter Havighurst
  • The Strong Hand by Michael Blankfort – Reviewed by Nathan Rothman
  • A Forest of Tigers by Robert Shaplen – Reviewed by J.G. Hitrec
  • China: New Age and New Outlook by Pin-Chia Kuo – Reviewed by Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • The Rebuilding of Italy by Muriel Grindrod – Reviewed by Michael T. Florinsky
  • The Five-Dollar Goldpiece by Orville Prescott – Reviewed by Robert Halsband
  • Mrs. Fiske and the American Theatre by Archie Binns — Reviewed by Alan S. Downer
  • Dreaming of a White Bonnet — Reviews by Helen McCully

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • Booked for Travel by Horace Sutton
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1142

    • 1935-06-01 Liberty Magazine Contents

    1935/06/01 — Cover is credited to Robert C. Kauffmann

    Contents as follows:
    SHORT STORIES

  • Can It Be the Spring? by Phylis Duganne and illustrated by Gerald Leake
  • Parthian Shaft by Roger Garis and illustration by Carl Link
  • The Little Room by Josephine Bentham and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • First Impression — A short short story by Frank Leon Smith

    • SERIALS:

  • Crazy to Fight — Part 3 by Major Myron B. Goldsmith and illustrated by Herbert F. Roese
  • Irene, The Stubborn Girl — Part 4 by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Frank Swain

    • ARTICLES:

  • Capitalism Won’t Die by H.L. Mencken with cartoon by Rollin Kirby
  • Man Against Woman in Tennis by Helen Hull Jacobs
  • Hollywood Cries “Stop!” by Campbell MacCulloch about Hollywood Extras
  • Human Rays That Kill or Cure by Donald Furthman Wicketts

    • FEATURES:

  • Editorial
  • Good Books by Oliver Swift
  • Twenty Questions
  • To the Ladies! by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
  • $5,000 Game of Famous Americans
  • Vox Pop
  • Swift, Satirical, Simple — Movie Reviews by Bevery Hills includes a 3-1/2 star review of G-Men with photo of James Cagney and Robert Armstrong
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • ‘Tisn’t So by R.E. Doan