This is a beautifully colorful cover issue from the January 1925 issue of Colliers Magainze. The featured serial story, ‘Bobbed Hair,’ is a perfectly predictable melodrama … and I certainly wouldn’t have it any other way!
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Just curious: Is the featured story fiction or a how-to on bobbing hair?
It’s a fictional story called ‘Bobbed Hair.’ It would have been fabulous to have a how-to on ’20s hair bobbing, but alas, it’s just your average sugar-sweet melodrama.
🙂
Those old magazines used to publish a lot of fictional short stories, often by writers whose names we now recognize: Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates. It’s a writing venue all but lost to us today. Do you know who wrote the story?
Marcy, I could not agree more. Magazine fiction was once such a powerful platform for writers, but sadly today (with some notable exceptions, of course) the art form of the short story is all but lost. The magazines that I collect are largely from the early part of the 20th century, the 1910s-1940s, so no Vonnegut and Roth. But I do often come across the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Anita Loos. This particular story, ‘Bobbed Hair,’ is something of an anomaly: it was written by twenty separate authors. And among the contributors are none other than Alexander Woollcott and Dorothy Parker. (The Dorothy Parker chapter is in the following issue which, alas, I do not have.)
Ooh, I would love to be able to see that. Dorothy Parker was my mother’s favorite writer.
Awww, bless. Well, I’ll be keep my eyes peeled for that followup issue! 🙂
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