CLICK Magazine May 1944 Vol 7 No 5 Princess Elizabeth WWII Home Front Pastel
CLICK: The National Picture Monthly, May 1944.
Vol. 7, No. 5.
This is a complete wartime issue of Click, published by Triangle Publications, Philadelphia.
The cover features a full-color pastel portrait of Princess Elizabeth.
According to the contents page, artist Morris Kallem studied photographs, newsreels, and Windsor family history — and even purchased a piece of taffeta to match her dress — to create the portrait.
He described the mood of the work as “reserve — a forceful personality well under control.”
Morris J. Kallem (1889–1953) was a New York portrait and impressionist painter who exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
His sons Henry and Herbert Kallem both became noted artists.
Princess Elizabeth turned 18 in April 1944 — just weeks before this issue was printed.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
FOREIGN — “Princess Elizabeth Comes of Age” by Enid Haupt, p. 14.
BEHIND THE SCENES — “There’ll Be No Germany!” by Johannes Steel, p. 5.
Steel was a German-born journalist who fled Nazi Germany, wrote a book predicting WWII before it began, and became one of the most widely followed radio commentators in the United States during the war.
He also wrote for The Nation and the New York Post.
SCIENCE — “A New World Map-Globe” by Prof. Irving Fisher, p. 27.
Fisher was one of the most important American economists of the 20th century, a Yale professor described by Joseph Schumpeter as “the greatest economist the United States has ever produced.”
He was also a prolific inventor; the Yale archives document his invention of the Likaglobe — a representation of a spherical surface on a flat map — illustrated in a 1943 file.
CLICK’S PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE MONTH: Ruth Bernhard, featured for her “Sea Shells” photographs (p. 23).
Bernhard was the daughter of Lucian Bernhard, renowned German-American graphic designer and typographer.
By 1944 she was an associate of the f/64 group, working alongside Edward Weston and other major figures of American modernist photography.
Her work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
PERSONALITIES — “Theaters of War” by Leonard Lyons, p. 20.
Lyons was a well-known Broadway and entertainment columnist for the New York Post.
MOVIES — “The Eve of St. Mark” preview, p. 32.
SPORTS — “Is the Farm System Killing Baseball?” by Joe Williams, p. 46.
ENTERTAINMENT — Ballroom Hercules, p. 30; Jacobowsky and the Colonel, p. 44.
ADVERTISING: Full-page color advertisement for Seagram’s 5 Crown Blended Whiskey.
The ad uses the WWII Victory Garden theme, with the five cartoon crown characters doing patriotic “spadework.”
This is a well-documented series of wartime Seagram’s illustrated ads now collected as WWII advertising ephemera.
Additional ads for Zenith Radionics hearing aids and other wartime products appear throughout.
STAFF CREDITS:
Editor: Andrew B. Hecht
Managing Editor: Edward D. Fales
Art Director: George E. Neil
Picture Editor: Jean Wright
Staff Photographer/Associate Editor: Bradley Smith
Photographers: Ike Vern, Jack Manning, Andrew L. Bunzick, Bruce Bailey, J.B. Scott
Washington Editor: J. Lacey Reynolds
West Coast Bureau: Carl A. Schroeder (Editor), Jack Albin (Photo Editor)
Cartoons by Soglow
CONDITION: Fair.
The cover shows wear including corner damage at the lower left and spine stress.
The contents page has separated from the staple binding but is present.
Interior pages are intact and readable. Page missing.
Tanning and age-related discoloration throughout, consistent with 80-year-old paper stock.
Please examine all photos carefully before purchasing.
Packed in a waterproof bag between thick sturdy cardboard sheets to prevent folding.
This is being sold as is and as photographed.
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COMPLETE INDEX
Page 5 — “There’ll Be No Germany!” by Johannes Steel (Behind the Scenes)
Page 9 — Assault Climbers (Fighting Forces)
Page 13 — Patriot (Home Front)
Page 14 — “Princess Elizabeth Comes of Age” by Enid Haupt (Foreign)
Page 16 — Vitamin ABC (Science)
Page 20 — “Theaters of War” by Leonard Lyons (Personalities)
Page 23 — Sea Shells, photographs by Ruth Bernhard (Science)
Page 27 — “A New World Map-Globe” by Prof. Irving Fisher (Science)
Page 30 — Ballroom Hercules (Entertainment)
Page 32 — The Eve of St. Mark (Movies)
Page 37 — Air Force Manikins (Fighting Forces)
Page 38 — Aprons for Men (Fashions)
Page 40 — Don’t Weep Over Onions (Food)
Page 42 — Remember the Name: Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn (Personalities)
Page 44 — Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Entertainment)
Page 46 — “Is the Farm System Killing Baseball?” by Joe Williams (Sports)
Page 50 — Tall Gals’ Party (Entertainment)
Page 52 — “Why Marriages Fail” by John J. Anthony (Essay)
Page 55 — Movies of the Month
Page 56 — Party Fun by John Reed King (Entertainment)
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