#301 - 1930 Annual Girl Picture Revue

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1930 Annual Girl Picture Revue
10-Story Book Corporation
Chicago, Illinois
1930
covers missing, replaced

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From 1901 to 1942, 10-Story Book Corporation of Chicago published a monthly magazine named 10-Story Book with regions of red on every cover. The company also published companion fiction monthlies titled 10-Story Detective, 10-Story Sports and 10-Story Western.

10-Story Book competed for male readers with fiction magazines of its day by inserting pinup-type “girl pictures” between short stories. Actresses and dancers were shown among pictures of lesser-known posers, with and without names. Some names and descriptions are likely fiction. Because some photos showed nudity, 10-Story Book may have been sold under-the-counter in some American cities.

A 100-page magazine with a picture on every page would have been expensive in 1930. But the Annual Girl Picture Revue collects pinup photographs that appeared in 1929 issues of 10-Story Book magazine, maybe 12 to an issue. Thus, the metal (zinc?) photo plates were already paid for. The Revue shared the expense of the plates
in a second publication.

Of those that are actual is the publicity photo of Italy's dancing Ferri Sisters, Elsa and Nella. Their picture in the magazine is now preserved by the Corbis Archive. Considered one of London's Bright Young Things in the 1920s, Brenda Dean Paul, the daughter of royalty, had a varied entertainment career and tragic life. Popular actress Edmonde Guy appeared in both silent and talking pictures made in France in 1920s and 1930s. Shapely Natacha Natova danced in a 1929 MGM musical. Coquettish Claire Luce, acclaimed stage and screen actress, poses lovely dancer's legs.

Probably the most enduring person pictured in this volume is Josephine Baker, the toast of Paris for uninhibited onstage dancing, singing and motion picture work. Remembered for her skirt of bananas, the squib says that men fought over her.

Many photographs bear trademarks of commercial studios. Pictures in Annual Girl Picture Revue are accompanied by short blurbs about the models, their occupation, or their setting, often intended to be funny. The text connects models with mythology, Spain, Argentina, Tahiti, Egypt, Great Britain, and American locales, but, most often, France and cities in France. Some comments acknowledge modern technology, with multiple references to radio and linotype type-setting machinery.

The original magazine was probably 100 pages, but the source copy doesn't have covers. Introduced by some history about the short story magazine, the ebook presents 96 pages of the Revue in the original sequence. Some outer margins have been reduced, and a few page layouts were revised slightly to present photographs as large as possible. Arrangements of photo, type and ornament have been retained.

The tonality of pictures was adjusted. All original scans.

Sometimes shot on the beach or in the woods, models wear stockings, lingerie, bathing suits, dresses, gowns or nothing. Pretty and graceful, these slender sweethearts show feminine allure often with shyness or innocence. A charming, between-the-wars relic of American publishing ingenuity, Annual Girl Picture Revue offered cheerful pinup entertainment for regular guys. The ebook preserves this antique morsel of flirty cheesecake for the mature grandchildren of the gentlemen who were its first audience.







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