1922: A Fieldguide (Part 2)
The Arts and More
LITERATURE
January 27 – Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel The Castle (Das Schloss) at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, ceasing around early September in mid-sentence.
Feb 2 - The modernist novel Ulysses by James Joyce is published complete in book form by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company in Paris on 2/2/22, Joyce's 40th birthday. A further edition is published in Paris for the Egoist Press, London, on October 12. Much of it seized by the United States Customs Service. The U.K. customs will also seize copies entering the country.
May 27 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is published in The Smart Set magazine.
Other Major Publications:
The Waste Land T.S. Eliot
One of Ours Willa Cather
Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott FItzgerald
The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
The Garden Party Edith Sitwell
PULITZER PRIZES
Fiction: Alice Adams Booth Tarkington
Biography: A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland
History: The Founding of New England James Truslow Adams
Poetry: Collected Poems Edwin Arlington Robinson
Drama: Anna Christie Eugene O’Neill
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Hugh Lofting – The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind (non-fiction)
Beatrix Potter – Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
Carl Sandburg – Rootabaga Stories
Margery Williams – The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real
TOP 20 FILMS OF 1922
Nosferatu
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Nanook of the North
Cops
Foolish Wives
Robin Hood
Doctor Jack
Grandma’s Boy
Payday
The Electric House
Paleface
My Wife’s Relations
Phantom
The Blacksmith
Blood and Soul
Beyond the Rocks
Daydreams
The Frozen North
The Frogs Who Wanted a King
BROADWAY 1922
Abie’s Irish Rose
Antigone
The Cat and the Canary
The Hairy Ape
The Happy Ending
Henry IV (Pirandello)
Merton of the Movies
POP MUSIC
Elsie Baker, Nora Bayes, The Benson Orchestra of Chicago, Fanny Brice, Henry Burr, Eddie Cantor, Zez Confrey & His Orchestra, Edwin Dale, Vernon Dalhart, Al Jolson, Ernest Hare, Mariona Harris, Charles Harrison, Billy Jones, Isham Jones & His Orchestra, Ted Lewis and His Band, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra, Ray Miller and His Orchestra, Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Billy Murray, The Peerless Quartet, Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra, Aileen Stanley, John Steel, Van & Schenck, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Bert Williams
1922 ART GALLERY
Daybreak Maxfield Parrish
Cabaret Scene Salvador Dali
Twittering Machine Paul Klee
The Farm Joan Miró
My Shanty, Lake George Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Frame Wassily Kandinsky
Senecio Paul Klee
Kneeling Nude Edvard Munch
POPULAR COMIC STRIPS 1922
Rupert Bear
Tillie the Toiler
Gasoline Alley
Out Our Way
Barney Google
Fritzi Ritz
Rufus McGoofus
Bonzo the Dog
Freckles
TOP TEN BABY NAMES 1922
Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret, Ruth, Betty, Virginia, Mildred, Elizabeth, Frances
John, Robert, William, James, Charles, George, Joseph, Edward, Richard, Frank
EXTENDED TRIVIA OF 1922
Lead paint was recognized as toxic as early as 1897 and banned by the League of Nations in 1922. The US did not ban lead paint until 1971.
Walgreens introduced the malted milkshake.
The gummi bear was first created in Germany in 1922 by Hans Riegel Bonn.
The first-ever 3D movie, The Power Of Love, was also the first film to have an alternative ending. Viewers could choose between the happy or sad endings, shot in 2D, by closing one eye or the other. No copies exist
The Caterpillar Club, an association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft, is established. “Life depends on a silken thread” is the club’s motto.
All telephone service in the US and Canada was silenced for one minute on August 4th to mark the funeral of Alexander Graham Bell.
The American Professional Football Association renames itself as the National Football League.
While incarcerated in Leavenworth, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, modified a wrench for tightening loosened fastening devices. He received Patent #1,413,121 for his improvements on April 18, 1922.
The first recorded use of periwinkle as a color name.
Vegemite was invented in Australia.
May 30 - Only MLB trade to be made in the middle of a double header. Managers Bill Killefer of the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinal manager Branch Rickey arranged an even trade of Cubs right fielder Max Flack for center fielder Cliff Heathcote. Both players played for each team that day.
The Bureau of Public Roads commissioned Gen. John J. Pershing to make a map for construction purposes and to highlight which roads in the U.S. would be the most important in the event of war. The “Pershing Map” was the first official topographic road map of the United States.
Film director Hal Roach released the first of many Our Gang shorts.
Aug 25 - Highest scoring baseball game ever: 49 runs when the Chicago Cubs beat the Phillies 26 to 23.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Phillies 0 3 2 1 3 0 0 8 6 23 26 4
Cubs 1 10 0 14 0 1 0 0 x 26 25 5
Aug 28 - First radio commercial broadcast by WEAF, New York City.
The Hess Triangle Plate was put on an NYC sidewalk area.
The first of 112 workers to die on the construction of Hoover Dam was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922. His son, Patrick W. Tierney, was the last man to die working on the dam, 13 years to the day later.
The US Postmaster General declared all houses had to have mailboxes or forgo mail delivery.
First use of “Process 2” Technicolor, a major improvement over the Process 1 from 1916 that used a two-color red-green system. The improvement captured the incoming light through a beam splitter with red and green filters. The first film to use it is the sensational The Toll of the Sea.
The last of the golden California grizzly bears (Ursus arctos californicus) is hunted to extinction. Approximately 10,000 bears lived in California during the Gold Rush of 1849. This is the same bear that adorned the Bear Flag Republic as well as the flag of California.
The last known wild Barbary lion is shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
The Amur tiger became extinct in South Korea.
H. J. Muller sets out the basic properties of genetic heredity.
Vitamin E is discovered by Herbert McLean Evans and Katharine Scott Bishop at the University of California,
Louis Armstrong joins King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921 is published by Princeton University Press.
Madeleine Vionnet introduces the bias cut dress in Paris.
Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds to create a world record and break the "minute barrier."
Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years, from 1922 to 1990, and was entered in the Guinness World Records as the man with the longest attack of hiccups, an estimated 430 million hiccups in 68 of the last 100 years.
I'm obsessing on the extra hand holding the microphone in the Einstein pic.