A new slant on America
Subtitle: "Un œil neuf sur l'Amerique"
By: being a translation from the French of Paul Achard by Margaret Gaffey Mel, with drawings from the French edition by D. Olère
Contributors: Mel, Margaret Gaffey; Olère, David, 1902-1985
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Description and travel
Work titles: Un œil neuf sur l'Amerique
Table of contents: title: From Montmartre to Broadway.; title: The American street.; title: American life.; title: The American cinema - the national industry.; title: History of a film.; title: The king - "Talkie"; title: The "movie" - it is all America.; title: America trains.; title: Chicago and its "gangs"; title: In the slaughter-houses.; title: From Chicago to the Pacific.; title: San Francisco, pearl of California.; title: Hollywood, babel of the cinema.; title: Birth and death of a star, or the city of broken hearts.; title: From Arizona to the last redskins of Colorado.; title: From Kansas to Canada.; title: American women.; title: Culture.; title: Sport [Football]; title: Comfort.; title: The American spirit.; title: "A business civilization"; title: To live - is to gamble.; title: Prohibition.; title: The Negro.; title: The French in America.; title: The Americans and we.; title: Return to the Old World.; title: Nothing new in the East.