It's March, It Must be Screenland

[turtlebay]

It's March so it must be Screenland March '36 spotlight cover on Kate. Twelve months of Kate!

Jim

[Judy]

turtlebay said:

It's March so it must be Screenland March '36 spotlight cover on Kate. Twelve months of Kate!

Jim

Jim - We ARE soulmates...I have these, too. Not done up the way you have, though, which is, by the way, terrific looking....Did you take photos of the covers? It's a great idea.

Judy

[turtlebay]

Judy,

It's so much worse than you think. Those are the acutal mags in a frame I had custom made. I was going to have some kind of gobol (I think that's what they are called, the things you see shine clocks and stuff on the floor of upscale stores) and have it as my perpetual calendar with each new month lighted on it. Anyway that didn't happen and while getting on with the collecting of every Kate American cover mag from '33-'38 (don't think there are any in '32 or '39, '40's don't count), decided I needed the context of that mag. So then I had to get the full year and it was downhill from there. I picked for the master my favorite mags for the months that kinda represented the season in SoCal like the blazing white hot of August, the Janus of January, the Halloween like Kate of October. Oh too much fun. But anyway, I only have about 3 mags left to finish off the whole thing. You'll probably discover the cheat month but I have an idea for that.

p.s. the address label on the 2/36 Screenland with Miriam Hopkins says "Bedford Rest Home, Josephine S. Rankin, 782 Broadway Ave, Bedford Ohio". These mags helped alot of people through a very difficult time.

Jim

[Judy]

turtlebay said:

Judy,

It's so much worse than you think. Those are the acutal mags in a frame I had custom made. I was going to have some kind of gobol (I think that's what they are called, the things you see shine clocks and stuff on the floor of upscale stores) and have it as my perpetual calendar with each new month lighted on it. Anyway that didn't happen and while getting on with the collecting of every Kate American cover mag from '33-'38 (don't think there are any in '32 or '39, '40's don't count), decided I needed the context of that mag. So then I had to get the full year and it was downhill from there. I picked for the master my favorite mags for the months that kinda represented the season in SoCal like the blazing white hot of August, the Janus of January, the Halloween like Kate of October. Oh too much fun. But anyway, I only have about 3 mags left to finish off the whole thing. You'll probably discover the cheat month but I have an idea for that.

p.s. the address label on the 2/36 Screenland with Miriam Hopkins says "Bedford Rest Home, Josephine S. Rankin, 782 Broadway Ave, Bedford Ohio". These mags helped alot of people through a very difficult time.

Jim

I'm still not quite clear on how you did it...But I love the thought you put into it. Can you remove the magazines? If not, how were you able to part with the mag? Or do I understand that you acquired another set after you framed these....

I'm pretty sure I, too, have them all from 33-38, and though I haven't done as detailed a study as you, I bow to your wisdom about 32 and 39. My first is Jan 33, too.....Do theatre mags count? Probably not. But if they do, then there's that great cover from the March 15, 1939 issue....But you've probablly already thought ot that and nixed it....The theatre lover in me just had to make the suggestion...

Judy

[Judy]

Forgot to say the March 39 issue of STAGE mag....but you prob'ly figured that out...Judy

[turtlebay]

Judy,

I think for me it started out as just getting covers of Kate (my first was in '79 while in college, Photoplay 4/34). After her death, and my intro to ebay, it was just get everything Kate.

Somehow it evolved, to an understanding that these 1930's mass issue magazines took millions of people, many women, away from their very difficult hard working lives for perhaps a moment. Kate hit at about the time the depression was at its' most severe. She was like a super comet illuminating a very dark time, along with others (Hepburn being my favorite). I think that's what Cukor saw and utilitzed. That's when I focused on the mass American mags of the '30's.

I like how the mags from late '33-to 35 have the NRA eagle on the cover, and image people anxiously awaiting them and sequestering themselves to read the latest.

To me they are historical artifacts. I could never cut them so they all remain nestled in either a protective frame or protective cover.

Jim

[turtlebay]

Judy,

Not sure I was completely clear but all magazines are complete so the frame holds up the entire mag, the bottoms rest on a lip of about a quarter inch. Then I had to get another for the "context" frame. So I have two of every Kate mag plus all the others, all complete (back covers are either cigarettes or face cream). I also have the Stage mag of '39 too. I think Kate's smoking and it's from the "Phildelphia Story". Love that stuff too. Got to see Kate in West Side Waltz, once in Denver and twice in New York. That's a whole nother (is nother a word?) sack of fish.

Jim