Most
everyone is fond of pie,
And think it quite sublime;
But
even so they do not care
To have it all the time.
So,
with our literary meals,
Please serve us, we beseech,
Some
monthly picture not a Flagg,
Some story not a Beach.
We
like to taste of Oppenheim,
We like a slice of Cobb;
But
we object to Christy pies
Forever on the job.
O,
makers of the magazines!
Don’t serve us every day,
With
pie from Chambers, Lindon, Hughes,
Made Gibson – Fisher way!
July 6, 1914
James
Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist and
illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning,
but is best remembered for his political posters.
Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877
– December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water
polo player.
His
adventure novels, influenced by Jack London, were immensely popular
throughout the early 1900s. Beach was lionized as the "Victor Hugo of
the North," but others found his novels formulaic and predictable. Critics
described them as cut from the "he-man school" of literature: stories
of "strong hairy men doing strong hairy deeds." Alaska historian
Stephen Haycox has said that many of Beach's works are "mercifully
forgotten today."
James Oppenheim (1882–1932),
was an American poet, novelist, and editor. A lay analyst and early
follower of C. G. Jung, Oppenheim was also the founder and editor of The
Seven Arts, an important early 20th-century literary magazine.
He was a
well-known writer of short stories and novels. His poetry followed Walt
Whitman's model of free verse ruminations on "social and democratic
aspects of life".
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 –
3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and
successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 –
March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah,
Kentucky who relocated to New York during 1904, living there for the
remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph
Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Cobb also
wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted
for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted for
two feature films during the 1930s directed by John Ford.
F. Earl Christy, illustrator, studied
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his father, William,
subsidized his early career as a commercial illustrator (1905-1906).
Christy practically invented the illustrated image of the
"All-American Girl," at least for the Ivy-League set. His early
works glorified the society college girl - always beautifully dressed at
football games, golf and tennis tournaments, riding in automobiles or
playing instruments. His first College Girl postcard series was
published in 1905 by the U.S.S. Postcard Company. When the college girl
fad had run its course, he went on to paint more mature men and women, movie
stars and political figures, still romantically idealized. His work can
be found on the covers of vintage fan magazines like Photoplay, Modern
Screen, Pictorial Review, Popular Songs, Radio Stars, Screen Album, Screen
Romances, and Shadowplay - not to mention sheet music, fans,
blotters, book illustrations, boxes, jigsaw puzzles, posters, serving trays,
bookmarks, advertising mailers, catalogs, programs, china, and textiles.
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 –
December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for
his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.
Chambers
studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris
from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early
as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded
Robert was
first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then entered the Art
Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles
Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des
Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his
work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to
New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth,
and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to
writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887
in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The
King in Yellow, a collection of Art Nouveau short stories published in 1895.
This included several famous weird short stories which are connected
by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title, which drives those who
read it insane. E. F. Bleiler described The King in Yellow as
one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. It was
also strongly admired by H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.
Chambers
returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker
of Moons, The Mystery of Choice and The Tree of Heaven, but none
earned him as much success as The King in Yellow. Some of Chambers's work
contains elements of science fiction, such as In Search of the Unknown and Police!!!,
about a zoologist who encounters monsters.
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John
Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an
American author, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the
then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first
fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his
fiction alone.
Some of
his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White
Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To
Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of
Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The
Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco
Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
London was
part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco,
and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of
workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian
novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss,
and The War of the Classes.
Rupert Hughes (1872—1956) was an American
novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer,
and music composer.
By the
time of his Yale degree Rupert Hughes had already given up the idea of a staid
life in academia for a new career as an author.[2] His
first book, 1898's The Lakerim Athletic Club, came from a serialized
magazine story for boys. Hughes often blurred the lines of job description in
his early years, working at various times as a reporter for the New York
Journal and editor for various magazines including Current Literature,
all the while continuing to write short stories, poetry, and plays.
In
addition to novels, Rupert Hughes was a prolific writer of short stories, with
varying numbers well over one hundred credited to him.
Charles
Dana Gibson (September
14, 1867 – December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist, best known
for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the
beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. His
wife, Irene Langhorne, and her four beautiful sisters, inspired his
images. He published his illustrations in LIFE magazine and other
major national publications for more than 30 years, becoming editor in 1918 and
later owner of the general interest magazine.
Harrison Fisher (July 27, 1875 or 1877 – January 19,
1934) was an American illustrator.
Fisher was
born in Brooklyn, New York City and began to draw at an early
age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists. Fisher spent much
of his youth in San Francisco, and studied at theSan Francisco Art
Association. In 1898 he moved back to New York and began his career as a
newspaper and magazine illustrator. He became known particularly for his
drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana
Gibson. Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa
McMein he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's,
"Fame and Fortune" contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara
Bow. Fisher's work appeared regularly on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine
from the early 1900s until his death.
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