Sunday Mirror Magazine

Rita Hayworth was on the cover of the Sunday Mirror magazine on April 14. The two paragraph inside box said that the songwriter who wrote "Latin From Manhattan" must have had the actress in mind, although actually she was born in Jackson Heights in the borough of Queens. Her father was a Spanish flamenco dancer and her mother an Irish-American Ziegfeld girl. "Gilda," perhaps her signature role, was playing in movie theaters at this time.

Mirror nightclub columnist Lee Mortimer had a feature in the Sunday magazine about the trend of passing off All-American beauties as foreign exotics. The magazine dished the dirt on the Duchess of Westminster, the Park Avenue society catch of the moment, and her philandering husband. Cafe photographer and society columnist Jerome Zerbe reported on a hairdressing accident that launched a fashion trend. Dowager romance novelist Kathleen Norris proposed a ban on wartime divorces.

Two up front pages were devoted to an excerpt with photographs of the much publicized, Book-of-the-Month club selection Man-Eater of Kumaon by famous tiger hunter Jim Corbett. The book was all over the newspapers that week. The magazine also had a book column by Charles A. Wagner, which offered a list of recommendations rather than in-depth reviews.

Prudence Penny, a Hearst trademark rather than an actual person, offered up menus and recipes for Easter breakfast. The feature "Such Interesting People" was devoted to a psychologist who had developed a technique for putting people to sleep.

The subject of other stories and articles in the Sunday Mirror magazine that week included:

  • Treasure supposedly buried on Tristan da Cunha, called the world's strangest island, a sparsely populated mountainous spot in an isolated volcanic archipelago in the South Atlantic midway between Africa and South America. It is the most remote inhabited place in the world.

  • A True-Life "You Be The Detective" Story About a 1910 Murder Case.

  • A new machine that sniffs oysters to determine their edibility with greater accuracy than the human nose.

  • The use of radar by eels to locate food, according to research at the Bronx Zoo.

Advice and service features included:

  • "Children Can Help Themselves"- Parenting advice from Lettice Lee Streett. She advises parents to develop patience with toddlers and resist the temptation to do everything for them so that they can learn to be self-sufficient.

    • Spring Showers by Jane Worth on the season's new raincoats. The stores featured in the story were considerable more upscale than the Mirror advertisers

  • A pattern available by mail for a junior miss frock,

  • "Your Handwriting and You"- Muriel Stafford analyzed actress Jeanne Crain's handwriting. For 10 cents readers could have any handwriting analyzed

  • "Alma Archer's Road to Charm" on new deodorants. The accompanying photo showed actress Anne Jeffrys in a standard bathing beauty pose with her hand behind her head, exposing her underarm. The caption stated that she used one of the recommended deodorants.(I doubt that this was what Miss Jeffrys thought would be done with this picture.)

The back page of the magazine was an ad for Lux with a glamor shot of Judy Garland.