A NAUGHTY BOYIA

If it shocks you just pretend I'm wearing a tiny fur coat.

Burlesque dancer Bonnie Boyia demonstrates proper ventilation for hot summer days in these two undated shots. Historically, she seems to have first achieved notice around 1950, but you get the feeling these shots came a bit later. Her most sustained success was with Al and Hattie Wagner’s Cavalcade of Amusements, and James E. Strates Shows, which was a travelling carnival that began touring the U.S. around 1923 and still operates today. That’s about all we know. If more information presents itself we’ll update. Maybe we can even find out where her pants went.

Bonnie Boyia, Al and Hattie Wagner’s Cavalcade of Amusement, James E. Strates Shows, burlesque, nudity

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

April 14

1935—Dust Storm Strikes U.S.

Exacerbated by a long drought combined with poor conservation techniques that caused excessive soil erosion on farmlands, a huge dust storm known as Black Sunday rages across Texas, Oklahoma, and several other states, literally turning day to night and redistributing an estimated 300,000 tons of topsoil.

April 13

1953—MK-ULTRA Mind Control Program Launched

In the U.S., CIA director Allen Dulles launches a program codenamed MK-ULTRA, which involves the surreptitious use of drugs such as LSD to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function. The specific goals of the program are multifold, but focus on drugging world leaders in order to discredit them, developing a truth serum, and making people highly susceptible to suggestion. All of this is top secret, and files relating to MK-ULTRA’s existence are destroyed in 1973, but the truth about the program still emerges in the mid-seventies after a congressional investigation.

April 12

1945—Franklin Roosevelt Dies

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait in the White House. After a White House funeral on April 14, Roosevelt’s body is transported by train to his hometown of Hyde Park, New York, and on April 15 he is buried in the rose garden of the Roosevelt family home.

April 11

1916—Richard Harding Davis Dies

American journalist, playwright, and author Richard Harding Davis dies of a heart attack at home in Philadelphia. Not widely known now, Davis was one of the most important and influential war correspondents ever, establishing his reputation by reporting on the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I, as well as his general travels to exotic lands.

BRAZIL UNDERGROUND

Edições de Ouro and Editora Tecnoprint published U.S. crime novels for the Brazilian market, with excellent reworked cover art to appeal to local sensibilities. We have a small collection worth seeing.

FLUENT IN VIOLENCE

Walter Popp cover art for Richard Powell's 1954 crime novel Say It with Bullets.

IN HOT WATER

There have been some serious injuries on pulp covers. This one is probably the most severe—at least in our imagination. It was painted for Stanley Morton's 1952 novel Yankee Trader.