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1936-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents April 1936

1936/04 —

Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “The Night Reveals” by Cornell Woolrich
  • “Poor Miss Maggie” by Dorothy Canfield
  • “The Nurse, the Angel, the Daughter of the Gambler” by William Saroyan
  • “Then Was Hey-Day” by Peter Neagoe
  • “One Into One Is Two” by Elsie Plaut
  • “Beautiful Holler’s Divorce” by Ernest Booth
  • “The Vigilante” by Victor Schiff
  • “Wedding Present” by E.A. Moll
  • “Australian Horizon” by John T. Burke
  • “The First Five Years” by Whit Burnett
  • Survey of Review – Books – Etc.

    • 1966-02 Playboy Magazine Contents for February 1966

    1966/02 — Vol. 13 No. 2. 192 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Federico Fellini
  • “How Simon Got His Bureau” — Part 3 of a Novel by Bernard Wolfe
  • European Fashion Dateline — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “A Valentine” — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • Jazz ’66 by Nat Hentoff
  • “Despair” — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Student Princess — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Melinda Windsor
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • A Little Lexicon of Love — Article by Ray Russell
  • Instant Gourmet Cookery — Food by Thomas Mario
  • Mood Ebony — Article by James Farmer
  • Patridge Shoot From Elephantback — Sports by Jack Denton Scott
  • The Girls of Rio – Pictorial Essay
  • Madam Filippa’s Defense — Ribald Classic by Boccaccio
  • Sights and Sounds of ’66 — Modern Living
  • The History of Sex in the Cinema – Part 7: The Thirties — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Single page Vargas Girl – “I never go out with married men, so won’t you please come in?”
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Bart Lytton – William Dozier – Charles Weltner

    • 1966-07 Playboy Magazine Contents for July 1966

    1966/07 — Vol. 13 No. 7. 170 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Ralph Ginzburg
  • One the Secret Service of HIs Majesty the Queen — Parody by Sol Weinstein
  • The Bespoke Ford — Modern Living
  • “The Better Man” — Fiction by Ray Russell
  • Slices of the Apple — Nostalgia by Rex Stewart
  • Red China, the U.S. and the U.N. — Opinion by Max Lerner
  • Sean Connery Strikes Again – Pictorial
  • The Day Arnold Palmer was Blackballed — Humor by Peter Andrews
  • Patrician Playmate — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Tish Howard
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • “Don’t Laugh Unless It’s Funny” — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • In the Swim — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Gyps That Pass in the Night — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Ursula — Ursula Andress Pictorial
  • The Royal Ascot — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • The Generous Gift of Gabon — Ribald Classic
  • The Alfresco Bunch — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: James Coburn – Richard Petty – David Gilmour
  • Two page Vargas Girl spread declares “How do you like my Dynamic Duo” with topless subject wearing Batman cape, mask, utility belt and other gear on the run
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1942-09 Theatre Arts Magazine Contents

    1942/09 – Cover drawing by Will Anderson

    A SCRIPTWRITER’S SAMPLE BOOK

  • Frontispiece: Norman Corwin photograph
  • The World and the Theatre
  • Radio Drama

    • RADIO DRAMA:

  • Samson by Norman Corwin

    • DANCE LIBRETTO:

  • American Document by Martha Graham with Four Scenes from the Dance (picturing Graham)

    • SOLDIER REVUE:

  • Local Board Makes Good by Sylvia Fine and Max Liebman (Six Songs and Sketches) with Drawings by Harry Horner

    • FILM SCENARIO:

  • The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (A Sequence)

    • PANTOMIME:

  • L’Enfant Prodigue by Michel Carre – Adapted and With Prologues by Ashley Dukes (Prologues; Act I; and Act III, scene 5) with Two Scenes from the Mercury Production

    • 1954-03 Theatre Arts Magazine Contents

    1954/03 – Cover: Betsy von Furstenberg

    THE PLAY:

  • Boys Will Be Boys by Mary Chase
  • Bernardine by Mary Chase

    • GEORGE SPELVIN:

  • Tale of Two Cities — Jealousy, Illinois and Underground, New York

    • BROADWAY (reviews):

  • Mademoiselle Colombe
  • His and Hers
  • Sing Till Tomorrow
  • Dead Pigeon
  • Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
  • Charley’s Aunt
  • In the Summer House
  • The Remarkable Mr. Penny Packer
  • The Prescott Proposals

    • FEATURES:

  • Gin and Sympathy by Maurice Zolotow
  • Saroyan Speaks Up by William Saroyan
  • The Stage Reclaims Its Own: Four Leading Ladies Who Left Theatre for Films Return — Celeste Holm, Margaret Sullavan, Martha Scott, Deborah Kerr

    • SPECIAL SECTION:

  • Theatre in Japan
  • East Meets West by Paul Green
  • Backstage at the Kabuki by Faubion Bowers
  • Kabuki Is a Must for America by James A. Michener
  • Art for Actor’s Sake
  • The Aesthetics of Japanese Theatre by Sir Goerge Sansom
  • Whee the Silver Screen Has Turned to Gold by Donald Richie
  • Mementos, Made in Japan by Helen Traubel, Mischa Elman, Leo Sirota

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Calendar
  • Theatre on the Disc by Sigmund Spaeth
  • Theatre Arts Gallery