

The magazine mainly covered New York, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Offering one copy of volume XII, No 12 of the Mid Week Pictorial, an illustrated weekly magazine published by the New York Times, dated Nov 18th, 1920. In volume 1, number 1, “The Showdown” magazine is described as "a monthly publication, which caters to theatricals exclusively." The magazine featured night club reviews, show reviews, and features on performers.


Sally followed in the footsteps of their parents, and made a career in publishing and created “The Show-Down” magazine, which was devoted to nightclub life and entertainment. She is featured in many of the photographs and magazines of this collection. Laurie performed in many famous nightclubs throughout America including Club Plantation and the Cotton Club. were both involved in New York’s nightlife scene, one as a showgirl and the other as a publisher of magazines featuring famous musicians and dancers of the time. Sisters Laura “Laurie” Cathrell and Sally J. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Part of the music domain includes nightlife and nightclubs, which were often the centerpiece of musical life during the first half of the twentieth century. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This chapter explores the intimate connections between the periodical, theater, fashion, and consumption as they became entwined in novel and potent ways. 2 The Sketch and its imitators, rivals, and stablemates, through their ability to combine text and photorelief images, were able to rapidly circulate information on how one might live. As work become a place of increasing conformity and regulation for the middle and lower middle classes, time spent away from work, at home, shopping, or at the theater, became the location of the true self, and of the expression of this self. Indeed, the Sketch demonstrated the new importance of leisure in modernism. Many of these were new leisure activities such as shopping, spectator sports, cycling, and tourism others were older pleasures that had been recently updated and commodified such as theatergoing, fashion, art, and literature. People who viewed this item also viewed VINTAGE MARCH 1940 TRUE PICTORIAL STORIES ROMANCE MAGAZINE NAZI SEX FREEDOM Magazine - GET IN THE SWIM-1940-Johnny. In its columns of comment, its photographs and illustrations, the Sketch delineated a variety of ways in which city dwellers could find meaning in mass-produced goods and entertainments. Just as the Illustrated London News helped the middle classes gain a sense of what it meant to be middle class in the 1840s, so its sister magazine the Sketch enabled them to imagine a collective identity around leisure and consumption in the 1890s. This chapter looks in detail at the Sketch, the first English weekly magazine to be illustrated entirely by process, and one which imaged the diverse activities of modern life. The first illustrated magazines to adopt and develop new methods of imaging and reproduction were not devoted to news but to the depiction of the ephemeral spectacles of the London metropolis.
