Old New York #18

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1893)
An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations;
by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson, Kimberly Lindbergs and Greg Ferrara

John Stephen
This was posted by Kimberly Lindbergs
for the series:
A Who's Who of Swinging London

A plane carrying spiritous liquors crashes on a farm near Crotonville, New York (1922)

Marie Dressler and New York chorus girls protest the inequities of Actors Equity (1919)
This was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
An Illustrated History of American Labor

Original Caption:
Ends Shooting Spree.
Allison, Iowa -- Ronnie Loughlin, 15-year-old altar boy, sits handcuffed after surrendering to police at Allison on Sept. 4th. The youth had killed one woman in a shooting spree, and kidnaped a second whom he held hostage during a 5-hour ride through South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. "I just went berserk, I guess," he told authorities. (1955)

Her Beaus Are Only Rainbows
Music: George W. Meyer
Lyrics: Alfred Bryan
(Henry Waterson Inc.; 1926)

Bobby Fischer, here seen arriving in Reykjavik in Iceland on 5th July 1972 for the world championship match against Boris Spassky.
Read The Guardian's obituary here.

Rita Tushingham
This was posted by Kimberly Lindbergs
for the series:
A Who's Who of Swinging London

Original caption:
Detroit -- After refusing to walk, Leonard G. Hamilton is carried to a patrol car by detectives and uniformed officers. Hamilton was identified by five victims as one of the "lure' bandits who had been robbing truck driver salesmen in the area since the previous November. Police said Hamilton was wanted in Los Angeles on 53 charges of robbery, and in St. Louis for 24 like offenses. (1956)

Jerry Lewis walks a picket line at Universal Studios as a member of the
Writer's Guild of America (1973)
This was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
An Illustrated History of American Labor,
Artists in Action

The Underwood typewriter used by William Faulkner; located at Rowan Oak
in Oxford Mississippi.

Rupert Murdoch
This was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
Newspapermen,
So Loathsome I Could Cry

Sad news opens this Saturday, for word has come of Maila Nurmi's passing at the age of 86. Time and tide came to know her best as Vampira, but throughout her long life she was many things: an intensely ravishing pin-up beauty, a Television pioneer (for KABC-TV in Los Angeles . . . back when local television in LA was something wondrous to behold), a Blacklistee, a Comedienne, a recidivist presence in documentaries on the life and work of the late Edward D. Wood, Jr, an Antique shop owner, an habituee of Googie's on Sunset and Crescent, a lover of many and, for those who did not know her, too few.
My Bright Lights Film Journal colleague C. Jerry Kutner has posted a brief and lovely tribute in fond remembrance of the woman who associated only with geniuses.

Pert Kelton
No. 28 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Pert Kelton was born in Great Falls, Montana, the daughter of vaudeville players, and began to appear with her parents when quite a child, travelling with them all over the world. When they retired, Pert made her way to the Broadway stage, and commencing as a singer and dancer, developed into a most popular comedienne. Her screen debut was made in a small part in the talkie version of Sally. Later pictures include The Bowery, Bed of Roses, The Meanest Gal in Town, Sing and Like It and Bachelor Bait.

Greta Garbo, Zasu Pitts and Mae West in I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
(Tom Palmer; Warner Bros.; 1933)
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Original Caption:
New York -- A group of revelers, all garbed as women, are loaded into a 'pie wagon' as police raid a masqued ball at Manhattan Center early this morning. Six patrol wagons were needed to cart the 99 men to West 30th Street police station. (1939)

Original Caption:
"Come up an' See Me Sometime - But Ring First".
Los Angeles -- If you ever accept one of Mae West's subtle invitations to drop around and pay a brief visit, be sure to use the front door and ring the bell first. Ever since Mae was held up by gangsters, she has been brushing up on her target work with pistol, rifle, sub machine gun and then shatters the bull's eye for a perfect score too often to call her bluff. She is shown with her coach, Detective J.C. Southard, expert marksman, just after a bit of machine-gunning on the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office Rifle Range. (1934)
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Crazy in Love!
(Trudy Richards with Billy May and His Orchestra)
(Capitol Records; 1957)

Long Island Police and Prohibition agents seize $20,000 worth of illegal spirits (1930)

Today's Adventure: National fight racket Czar Frankie Carbo is booked for refusing
to answer questions before the State Crime Commission (1952)
This was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
Adventures in the Fight Racket,
Friends and Family

Joseph N. Welch, Lee Remick and Otto Preminger
This was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
American Mouthpieces,
They Were Collaborators

Original Caption:
Los Angeles -- Twenty-six-year-old Roger Wing Whittier of North Bend, Oregon, lies dead on the stage of the Follies Theater, shot to death in the empty burlesque house in a gunfight December 1st with police who tried to arrest him as he caressed a picture of a dancer he called "my redheaded angel." Police said he apparently was crazed with love for the dancer, identified as Loretta Miller. An anonymous telephone call sent police to the theater at 6 A.M. One detective's ear was nicked by a shot from Whittier when officers told him to drop his gun. (1954)