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(90) Impossible Interviews -- No. 15. S.L. Rothafel versus Arturo Toscanini, 1933.
Published in Vanity Fair, February 1933.
Gouache.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03351 (90)
Already an accomplished caricaturist, Miguel Covarrubias (1904 -1957) took New York by storm when he arrived from his native Mexico in 1923. By 1925, he had become one of Vanity Fair's principal contributors, as renowned as the men and women he drew. In the series Impossible Interviews, Covarrubias brilliantly paired prominent politicians, artists, writers, and actors who would never be seen together in real life. This cartoon pairs Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel, designer of Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy Theater, with impresario conductor Arturo Toscanini, musical director of the New York Philharmonic. |