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1927 and the Rise of Modern America

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by Charles Shindo


  Roosevelt, Franklin, 89, 96

  Rosher, Charles, 149

  Ross, Dorothy, 43

  Rough House Rosie (film), 56, 60

  Runyon, Damon, 104

  Ruth, Babe (George Herman), 134, 138

  barnstorming tours of, 129, 132–33

  baseball career of, 127–30

  celebrity of, 6, 7, 93, 113, 130

  entertainment career of, 92, 130–31, 132

  income of, 133

  media and, 132, 133–34

  Ruth, George (father), 129

  Ruth, Helen, 130

  Ruth, Kate, 129

  Saarinen, Eliel, 26

  Sacco, Nicola, 7, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 46, 48

  Sacco-Vanzetti case, 7, 10, 13, 14, 29, 30–32, 46, 48

  Sacco-Vanzetti Anthology of Verse, The, 32

  Sam ’n’ Henry, 182, 183–84

  Sanders, E. C., 78

  Schamberg, Morton, 23

  Schulberg, Ben, 60, 61–62

  Schulberg, Budd, 56, 62

  Scopes Monkey Trial, 34

  Scudder, Townsend, 104

  Sedition Act (1918), 30, 33

  Seventh Heaven (film), 149–50

  sex

  changing views on, 55, 64–65

  premarital, 58, 61

  Sharkey, Jack, 116, 119

  Shaw, Arch W., 94

  Sheeler, Charles, 12, 20–22, 26, 27, 196

  Shocker, Urban, 128

  Show Boat (Broadway musical), 10, 70, 73, 196

  Show Boat (Ferber), 70–73

  Shuffle Along (Broadway show), 168

  Siam, King and Queen of, 139

  Siegfried, André, 190, 191, 192–93, 194, 195, 198

  silent film, 152–53

  Sinclair, Upton, 32

  Smith, Al, 89, 95, 101–2

  Smith, Bessie, 158, 166

  Smulyan, Susan, 180

  Snyder, Albert, 99, 100

  Snyder, Lorraine, 99, 100

  Snyder, Ruth, 7, 10, 91, 93, 99–102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 111, 112, 119, 134

  Snyder-Gray trial, 99–104, 105, 106, 110, 112, 195

  Soldier Field, 116, 124

  “Song for a Dark Girl” (Hughes), 167

  Sons of the American Revolution, 47–48

  South

  portrayal in film and literature of, 68–69, 70–74

  racism in, 73–74, 75, 77–82, 88–89

  women in, 68–71, 73

  Spirit of St. Louis (airplane), 2–3, 4

  spirituals, 164–65

  sports

  baseball, 122, 127–33

  boxing, 113–22

  college, 122, 123–27

  football, 122–27

  media and, 112–14, 120, 122–23, 125, 133–34

  writing, 112–14, 120, 122–23, 124–26, 130, 133–34, 195

  St. Cyr, Johnny, 159

  Stella, Joseph, 23

  Stieglitz, Alfred, 23

  Still, William Grant, 165, 172

  Strand, Paul, 23

  Strange Death of President Harding (Means), 98

  Stratton, John Roach, 103

  Stratton, Samuel W., 31

  Street Angel (film), 149

  Struss, Karl, 149

  Studio Basic Agreement, 147

  Sunday, Billy, 103

  Sunrise (film), 149

  Susman, Warren, 8

  Swanson, Gloria, 146

  tabloid press, 93–94, 103, 105, 109, 195

  Talmadge, Norma, 145–46

  Talmey, Allene, 138

  Tarbell, Ida, 94

  Tate, Allen, 85

  Taylor, William Desmond, 142

  technology

  art and, 22–23, 26

  industrial, 22, 26

  musical works on, 27–28

  radio, 174–75

  sound and film, 151–52, 153

  tenant farming, 78, 82, 85–86, 88, 89

  Ten Commandments, The (film), 143

  Thalberg, Irving, 147

  Thayer, Webster, 29, 31, 32

  Their Fathers’ God (Rolvaag), 45

  Thomas, John, 159

  Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” 47, 108

  Tilden, Bill, 113

  Time magazine, 186

  Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier), 197

  Townsend, Cordelia, 80–81

  Tucker, Earl

  “Snakehips,” 172

  Tunney, Gene, 115–16, 117–22

  “Twelve Southerners,” 85

  Twenties in America, The (Carter), 8

  Twilight Sleep (Wharton), 193–94

  U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 87

  U.S. v. Zenith Radio Corporation, 176

  United Press International, 83

  University of Southern California (USC), 61, 124, 127

  Unkafer, Elizabeth, 107, 108

  Urban, Joseph, 168

  Using Radio in Sales Promotion (Felix), 185, 187

  Vanity Fair, 21, 109

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 7, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 46, 48. See also Sacco-Vanzetti case

  Varèse, Edgar, 165

  vaudeville, 70, 132, 183, 184

  Velez, Lupe, 142

  Vicksburg, Mississippi, 78, 79

  Voigt, David, 130

  Walsh, Christy, 125, 132, 133

  Walsh, Raoul, 147

  Ward, John W., 3

  Warren, Robert Penn, 85

  Washingtonians, 169, 172

  Washington Star, 182

  Watkins, Maurine, 103, 107, 108–9

  Wayne, John, 127

  We Accept with Pleasure (DeVoto), 32

  Weismiller, Johnny, 134

  Wescott, Glenway, 15, 44, 46, 47, 49

  Wessell, Henri, 172

  Weston, Edward, 23

  WGN (Chicago radio station), 177, 182, 184

  Wharton, Edith, 193–94

  What Can a Man Believe? (Barton), 36, 42

  White, Wallace, 176

  White, Walter, 79, 81–82

  White, William Allen, 94, 95

  Whiteman, Paul, 11, 160, 161–63, 165, 169, 170, 172, 188

  “Whiteman Stomp,” 162

  Whitman, Walt, 25

  “Wild Man Blues,” 159

  Willard, Jess, 116

  Williams, Bert, 182

  Williams, William Carlos, 28

  Wills, Helen, 113

  Wilson, Edith, 172

  Wilson, Joan Hoff, 94, 95

  Wings (film), 56, 60, 149, 150

  women

  boxing and, 115

  as criminals, 108–9 (see also Snyder, Ruth)

  feminism and, 53–55

  increased opportunity of, 52, 53, 58, 68, 71, 73, 196

  “new woman” portrayal of, 10, 52, 53, 55, 58, 61, 65, 66, 67, 89, 109, 138, 196

  portrayal of in movies and plays, 55–56, 59, 68–72

  southern, 68–71, 73

  Woods, Frank, 147

  Woolcott, Alexander, 106

  Wooster, Stanton, 2

  Work, John Wesley, 165

  Wrightman, Patricia, 98

  Wrightman, Richard, 97, 98

  Year the World Went Mad, The (Churchill), 7

  Ziegfeld, Florenz, 168

 

 

 


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