Oh! Margy! -- Margy Went to the Zoo -- February 24, 2025

Oregon Daily Journal, 08-February-1925

I like the drawings of John Held, Jr. He helped to define the look of the flapper. I like the bears. Bearskin coats were stereotypical clothes for male college students.

Oh! Margy! -- Lots of Girls do Naughty Things -- January 15, 2025

Norfolk Ledger-Star, 05-January-1925

I like the drawings of John Held, Jr. He helped to define the look of the flapper. The snowman is cute.

Margy Has Trained Her Pet Peke to the Duties of a Maid -- December 17, 2024

Birmingham Age-Herald, 21-December-1924

I like the drawings of John Held, Jr. He helped to define the look of the flapper.

Oh! Margy! -- Beauty is More Than Skin Deep -- November 29, 2024

Miami Tribune, 25-November-1924

I like the drawings of John Held, Jr. He helped to define the look of the flapper.

Miami Tribune, 25-November-1924

Oh, Margy! -- August 21, 2024

Birmingham Age-Herald, 17-August-1924

I found a Time-Life series of books about decades in the Anza Branch Library. The book about the 1920s was my favorite. I particularly liked the drawings done by John Held, Jr. He defined the appearance of flappers. This book was also where I learned about Clara Bow.

New York Herald, 24-September-1922

F Scott Fitzgerald engaged Held to illustrate the covers of several of his books. 

Tales of the Jazz Age 100 -- September 22, 2022

New York Herald, 24-September-1922

F Scott Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age, made its debut 100 years ago today, on 22-September-1922. The image in the ad is from John Held, Jr's design for the dust jacket. While several stories from his first collection, Flappers and Philosophers, had been made into movies, not as many stories from this collection were adapted for film or television.

In 1963, a now-lost BBC series called Teletale presented "The Camel's Back."  

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," which I always thought was a little clunky, was adapted by Kraft Theater a cheesy (sorry) anthology series on NBC in 1955. I also remember a radio adaption. 

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In 2008 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was made into a feature film which I have not yet seen. It was directed by David Fincher. 

I find that I can't remember some of the stories in the collection at all. 

Moving Picture World, 23-September-1922

Warner Brothers promoted their planned adaption of Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. I need to read that again.

They Know Their Jazz -- November 12, 2014

Talking Machine World, February, 1928

Okeh made many records aimed at minority groups.  Jazz and blues artists Louis Armstrong and Victoria Spivey made many records for the company.  Okeh 40966 featured Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra.  Trumbauer was a saxophone player who wrote, arranged and lead.  The band on this session included his friend cornetist Bix Beiderbecke.  Bix was a major figure in 1920s jazz.  He influenced many later trumpet players 

Be sure to click on this ad from Talking Machine World to see a larger version.  I like the John Held, Jr-derived images. 

Both sides of 40966 are available on YouTube:





Justin Ring was a pseudonym used by Sam Lanin.  Lanin was a popular orchestra leader who made many records during the 1920s.  His brother Lester became a famous leader in the 1930s and beyond.  The two sides of Okeh 40977 are also YouTube:




Seger Ellis played the piano and sang.  I did not look too hard to find any of the items on the two records listed.  His style is an acquired taste.  I haven't acquired it. 

Bessie Love #5 -- May 7, 2013

I have always been fascinated by the career of actress Bessie Love.  She was born in Texas.  Her name was Juanita Horton.  Her family moved to Los Angeles and she went to Los Angeles High School.  Looking for work, she met director  DW Griffith and got a small part in Intolerance.  She appeared in movies with William S Hart and Douglas Fairbanks.  She was a 1922 WAMPAS (Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) Baby Star.  She played many leading roles, most famously in The Lost World, but never broke through until the talkies came, when she starred in The Broadway Melody.  Her career was hot for a few years, but then tailed off.  She continued to appear in small parts in movies until the early 1980s. 

This item, from the September, 1930 New Movie Magazine, is an add for Good News, which Bessie starred in with Cliff Edwards, Penny Singleton and "a campus-full of cute co-eds and capering collegians."  I have seen "The Varsity Drag."  It was a good number. 

The large drawing in the center is not signed, but it is either the work of John Held, Jr or an imitator.  I first saw his drawings in a book about the 1920s when I was very young and I have always enjoyed them.