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71-539: The series consisted of live presentations of stories written for Cosmopolitan magazine, and was one of many TV series airing "tele-plays" at the time. The program was broadcast live. If any episodes exist, they would be in the form of kinescope recordings. Louis G. Cowan packaged Cosmopolitan Theatre ; Sherman Marks was the producer and director. Writers of episodes included Richard Macauley and David Shaw. The show replaced Cavalcade of Bands from 9 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays. It originated from WABD and

142-524: A British perspective can be entered. In May 2015, Cosmopolitan UK announced they were launching their first ever fragrance. This is considered a first in the magazine industry. Named 'Cosmopolitan, The Fragrance', the perfume takes on the notion of their much-loved phrase 'Fun, Fearless Female' and was set to launch in September. Cosmopolitan played a role in passing the Seventeenth Amendment to

213-574: A barely legible twelve points. After Hearst died in 1951, the Hearst's International disappeared from the magazine cover altogether in April 1952. With a circulation of 1,700,000 in the 1930s, Cosmopolitan had an advertising income of $ 5,000,000. Emphasizing fiction in the 1940s, it was subtitled The Four-Book Magazine since the first section had one novelette, six or eight short stories, two serials, six to eight articles and eight or nine special features, while

284-467: A bottle . In conjunction with the campaign, Cosmopolitan 's editor-in-chief, Kate White, approached Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney , known for her support of women's health issues, with concerns that women were not fully aware of the dangers of indoor tanning and the effectiveness of the current warning labels. After careful review, the Congresswoman agreed that it was necessary to recommend that

355-434: A crime that attracted widespread attention from newspapers. While the novel sold well, it also was criticized for its portrayal of a man without morals who commits a sordid murder. Though known primarily as a novelist, Dreiser also wrote short stories, publishing his first collection of 11, entitled, Free and Other Stories in 1918. His story "My Brother Paul" was a biography of his older brother Paul Dresser , who became

426-530: A family and women's magazine, first published based in New York City in March 1886 by Schlicht & Field of New York as The Cosmopolitan . Paul Schlicht told his first-issue readers inside of the front cover that his publication was a "first-class family magazine". Adding on, "There will be a department devoted exclusively to the concerns of women, with articles on fashions, on household decoration, on cooking, and

497-545: A family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine . Cosmopolitan is one of the best-selling magazines. Formerly titled The Cosmopolitan and often referred to as Cosmo , Cosmopolitan has adapted its style and content. Its current incarnation was originally marketed as a woman's fashion magazine with articles on home, family, and cooking. For some time it focused more on new fiction and written work, which included short stories, novels, and articles. Now it

568-557: A famous songwriter in the 1890s. This story formed the basis for the 1942 romantic movie My Gal Sal . Dreiser also wrote poetry. His poem "The Aspirant" (1929) continues his theme of poverty and ambition: a young man in a shabbily furnished room describes his own and the other tenants' dreams, and asks "why? why?" The poem appeared in The Poetry Quartos , collected and printed by Paul Johnston , and published by Random House in 1929. Other works include Trilogy of Desire , based on

639-520: A feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV long after the best available medical science indicated otherwise. The piece claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and went on to state that "most heterosexuals are not at risk" and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position . This article angered many educated people, including AIDS and gay rights activists. The protests organised in response to

710-546: A film company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923, then Hollywood until 1938. The vision for this film company was to make films from stories published in the magazine. Cosmopolitan magazine was officially titled as Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan from 1925 until 1952, but was simply referred to as Cosmopolitan . In 1911, Hearst had bought a middling monthly magazine called World To-Day and renamed it Hearst's Magazine in April 1912. In June 1914 it

781-500: A free correspondence school: "No charge of any kind will be made to the student. All expenses for the present will be borne by the Cosmopolitan . No conditions, except a pledge of a given number of hours of study." When 20,000 immediately signed up, Walker could not fund the school and students were then asked to contribute 20 dollars a year. Also in 1897, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

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852-562: A granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst (founder of Cosmopolitan 's parent company) and sister of Patty Hearst , has lent her support to a campaign which seeks to classify Cosmopolitan as harmful under the guidelines of "Material Harmful to Minors" laws. Hearst, the founder of an evangelical Colorado church called Praise Him Ministries, states that "the magazine promotes a lifestyle that can be dangerous to women's emotional and physical well being. It should never be sold to anyone under 18". According to former model Nicole Weider , who

923-461: A great American business novel." Renowned mid-century literary critic Irving Howe spoke of Dreiser as ranking "among the American giants, the very few American giants we have had." A British view of Dreiser came from the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis : "Theodore Dreiser's books are enough to stop me in my tracks, never mind his letters—that slovenly turgid style describing endless business deals, with

994-408: A great artist, and that no other American of his generation left so wide and handsome a mark upon the national letters. American writing, before and after his time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin . He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling, and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked, and hoped." Dreiser's great theme

1065-433: A living wage, falls prey to several men, and ultimately achieves fame as an actress. The novel sold poorly and was considered controversial because it featured a country girl who pursues her dreams of fame and fortune through relationships with men. The book has acquired a considerable reputation. It has been called by Donald L. Miller the "greatest of all American urban novels." In 1901 Dreiser's short story "Nigger Jeff"

1136-475: A near-nude centerfold of actor Burt Reynolds in April 1972, causing great controversy and attracting much attention. The Latin American edition of Cosmopolitan was launched in March 1973. In April 1978, a single edition of Cosmopolitan Man was published as a trial, targeted to appeal to men. Its cover featured Jack Nicholson and Aurore Clément . It was published twice in 1989 as a supplement to Cosmopolitan . In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran

1207-450: A peculiarly American kind of crime, a form of "murder for money", when "the young ambitious lover of some poorer girl" found "a more attractive girl with money or position" but could not get rid of the first girl, usually because of pregnancy. Dreiser claimed to have collected such stories every year between 1895 and 1935. He based his novel on details and the setting of the 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in upstate New York,

1278-688: A popular songwriter. They were raised as Catholics. According to Daniels, Dreiser's childhood was characterized by severe poverty, and his father could be harsh. His later fiction reflects these experiences. After graduating from high school in Warsaw, Indiana , Dreiser attended Indiana University in 1889–1890 without taking a degree. In 1892, Dreiser started work as a reporter and drama critic for newspapers in Chicago , St. Louis , Toledo , Pittsburgh and New York . During this period he published his first work of fiction, The Return of Genius , which appeared in

1349-455: A seduction every hundred pages as light relief. If he's the great American novelist, give me the Marx Brothers every time." The literary scholar F. R. Leavis wrote that Dreiser "seems as though he learned English from a newspaper. He gives the feeling that he doesn't have any native language". One of Dreiser's strongest champions during his lifetime, H. L. Mencken , declared "that he is

1420-608: A spinoff magazine targeting a teenage female audience, was created for international readership. It shut down in December 2008. There are 64 worldwide editions of Cosmopolitan , and the magazine is published in 35 languages, with distribution in more than 100 countries making Cosmopolitan the largest-selling young women's magazine in the world. Some international editions are published in partnerships, such as licenses or joint ventures, with established publishing houses in each local market. During 2015, Cosmopolitan found popularity in

1491-587: A then-newfound medium, the "discover" section on Snapchat. At the time, Cosmopolitan's "discover" had over 3 million readers a day. In October 2018, Bauer Media Group announced that after 45 years, publication of the Australian edition of Cosmopolitan would stop due to the commercial viability of the magazine no longer being sustainable. In March 2022 the Russian edition, Cosmopolitan Russia , changed its title to Voice after Hearst revoked its affiliation following

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1562-576: A video on The Making of the World's Sexiest Calendar in 1994 followed by a 14-month Cosmopolitan Men Calendar. Photographer Richard Reinsdorf shot the entire Calendar and helped direct the video. Cosmopolitan releases a Male Centerfold issue every few years that features hot male celebrities from the United States. Here is a partial list of the men that have appeared in Cosmopolitan's Centerfold Editions over

1633-517: Is also part of this campaign, the magazine's marketing is subtly targeting children. Billboards have been hung in states such as Utah urging the state to ban sales of the magazine. In 2018, Walmart announced that Cosmopolitan would be removed from checkout lines after the anti-pornography organization National Center on Sexual Exploitation , formerly known as Morality in Media, labeled the magazine as "sexually explicit material". Cosmopolitan Australia

1704-483: Is long but, because of him, those who follow will never have to face the road through the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone. Alfred Kazin characterized Dreiser as "stronger than all the others of his time, and at the same time more poignant; greater than the world he has described, but as significant as the people in it," while Larzer Ziff (UC Berkeley) remarked that Dreiser "succeeded beyond any of his predecessors or successors in producing

1775-438: Is more targeted towards women's fashion, sports and modern interests. Eventually, editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown changed its attention to more of a women's empowerment magazine. Nowadays, its content includes articles discussing relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, horoscopes, and beauty. Cosmopolitan is published by New York City–based Hearst Corporation . The magazine's office in

1846-485: Is pro-life because that's not in our readers' best interest." According to Joanna Coles, the magazine's editor-in-chief , the endorsements of Cosmopolitan will focus on "candidates in swing states or candidates who are strongly in favor of issues like contraception coverage or gun control." In the 2014 U.S. elections , Cosmopolitan officially endorsed twelve Democratic candidates. However, only two of them won their respective political campaigns . Victoria Hearst,

1917-608: The Chicago Daily Globe under the name Carl Dreiser. By 1895 he was writing articles for magazines. He authored articles on writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne , William Dean Howells , Israel Zangwill , and John Burroughs and interviewed public figures such as Andrew Carnegie , Marshall Field , Thomas Edison , and Theodore Thomas . His other interviewees included Lillian Nordica , Emilia E. Barr, Philip Armour , and Alfred Stieglitz . In 1895, Dreiser convinced business associates of his songwriter brother Paul to give him

1988-646: The Great Terror and the non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler . Dreiser joined the Communist Party USA in August 1945 and later became the honorary president of the League of American Writers . Although less politically radical friends, such as H. L. Mencken , spoke of Dreiser's relationship with communism as an "unimportant detail in his life", Dreiser's biographer Jerome Loving notes that his political activities since

2059-778: The Hearst Tower , 300 West 57th Street near Columbus Circle in Manhattan in New York City. Cosmopolitan has 21 international editions in Bulgaria, China, Czechia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Cosmopolitan originally began as

2130-614: The US Constitution , which allowed for the popular election of US Senators (previously they were elected by state legislatures). In 1906, William Randolph Hearst hired David Graham Phillips to write a series of articles entitled " The Treason of the Senate ". These articles, which were largely sensationalized, helped galvanize public support for this cause. In September 2014, Cosmopolitan began endorsing political candidates. The endorsements are based on "established criteria" agreed upon by

2201-467: The birth control pill , which had gone on the market exactly five years earlier. This was not Brown's first publication dealing with sexually liberated women. Her 1962 advice book, Sex and the Single Girl , had been a bestseller. Fan mail begging for Brown's advice on many subjects concerning women's behavior, sexual encounters, health, and beauty flooded her after the book was released. Brown sent

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2272-404: The invasion of Ukraine . On the cover of its October 2018 issue, Cosmopolitan featured plus-sized model Tess Holliday . Some people, such as TV presenter Piers Morgan , criticized this choice, arguing that it amounted to promoting obesity. Editor of Cosmopolitan Farrah Storr called the cover choice a bold stance in favor of body positivity . In December 2020, actress Emma Roberts became

2343-464: The 1930s). Helen tolerated Dreiser's affairs, and they remained together until his death. Dreiser and Helen married on June 13, 1944, his first wife Sara having died in 1942. Dreiser planned to return from his first European vacation on the Titanic , but was talked out of it by an English publisher who recommended he board a cheaper ship. Dreiser was an atheist. Dreiser had an enormous influence on

2414-659: The Bachelor of the Year, who is announced at an annual party and media event in New York. The 50 bachelors generally appear on programs such as The Today Show . Past winners include: In the May 2006 issue of Cosmopolitan , the magazine launched the Practice Safe Sun campaign, an initiative aimed at fighting skin cancer by asking readers to stop all forms of tanning other than tanning from

2485-969: The FDA take a closer look. She and Representative Ginny Brown-Waite introduced the Tanning Accountability and Notification Act (TAN Act – H.R. 4767) on February 16, 2006. President Bush signed the act in September 2007, and the new federal law requires the FDA to scrutinize the warning labels on tanning beds and issue a report by September 2008. Cosmopolitan UK launched the Cosmo Blog Awards in 2010. The awards attracted more than 15,000 entries and winning and highly commended blogs were voted for in several categories including beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and celebrity. The 2011 awards launched in August 2011 and nominations are open until August 31, 2011. All UK-based bloggers and blogs written by British bloggers abroad with

2556-533: The House of Four Pillars, an 1830s Greek Revival house in Maumee, Ohio . There Dreiser began work on his first novel, Sister Carrie , published in 1900. Unknown to Maude, Arthur sold a half-interest in the house to Dreiser to finance a move to New York without her. In Sister Carrie , Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago), fails to find work that pays

2627-516: The Throat of the Republic" (December 1907 – March 1908) and "What Are You Going to Do About It?" (July 1910 – January 1911). Other contributors during this period included O. Henry , A. J. Cronin , Alfred Henry Lewis , Bruno Lessing , Sinclair Lewis , O. O. McIntyre , David Graham Phillips , George Bernard Shaw , Upton Sinclair , and Ida Tarbell . Jack London 's novella, " The Red One ",

2698-448: The Year award was awarded to Kayla Itsines (2015), Nicole Scherzinger (2012), Mila Kunis (2011), Anna Faris (2010), Ali Larter (2009), Katherine Heigl (2008), Eva Mendes (2007), Beyoncé (2006), Ashlee Simpson (2005), Alicia Silverstone (2004), Sandra Bullock (2003), Britney Spears (2002), Debra Messing (2001), Jennifer Love Hewitt (2000), Shania Twain (1999), and Ashley Judd (1998). Cosmopolitan Men released

2769-487: The age of 90. Her vision is still evident in the design of the magazine. The magazine eventually adopted a cover format consisting of a usually young female model (or prominent female celebrity), typically in a low cut dress, bikini, or some other revealing outfit. The magazine set itself apart by frankly discussing sexuality from the point of view that women could and should enjoy sex without guilt. The first issue under Helen Gurley Brown, July 1965, featured an article on

2840-573: The article's publication were turned into a 30-minute documentary titled "Doctors, Liars and Women: AIDS Activists Say NO to Cosmo" by two members of ACTUP, a New York City based collective of HIV/AIDS activists. One of the articles in its October 1989 issue, "The Risky Business of Bisexual Love", promoted the ' bisexual bridge' theory. The 'bisexual bridge' theory suggests that heterosexual women are unknowingly put at risk for contracting HIV through sexual contact with bisexual men who covertly have sex with other men (colloquially described as being "on

2911-416: The care and management of children. There was also a department for the younger members of the family." Cosmopolitan 's circulation reached 25,000 that year, but by November 1888, Schlicht & Field were no longer in business. Ownership was acquired by John Brisben Walker in 1889. That same year, he dispatched Elizabeth Bisland on a race around the world against Nellie Bly to draw attention to

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2982-572: The deportation of Emma Goldman , and the conviction of the trade union leader Thomas Mooney . In November 1931, Dreiser led the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP) to the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky to take testimony from miners in Pineville and Harlan on the pattern of violence against the miners and their unions by the coal operators. The pattern of violence

3053-480: The down low"). The New York Area Bisexual Network performed a successful letter-writing campaign against Cosmopolitan . Since the 1960s, Cosmopolitan has discussed such topics as health, fitness, and fashion, as well as sex. The magazine has also featured a section called "Ask Him Anything", where a male writer answers readers' questions about men and dating. The magazine, in particular its cover stories, has become increasingly sexually explicit in tone. In 2000,

3124-640: The early 1930s had "clearly been in concert with ostensible communist aims with regard to the working class." Dreiser's appearance and personality were described by Edgar Lee Masters in a poem, Theodore Dreiser: A Portrait , published in The New York Times Review of Books . While working as a newspaperman in St. Louis, Dreiser met schoolteacher Sara Osborne White. They became engaged in 1893 and married on December 28, 1898. They separated in 1909, partly due to Dreiser's infatuation with Thelma Cudlipp ,

3195-513: The editorship of a magazine called Ev'ry Month , in which he published his first story, "Forgotten" a tale based on a song of his brother's titled "The Letter That Never Came". Dreiser continued editing magazines, becoming editor of the women's magazine The Delineator in June 1907. As Daniels noted, he thereby began to achieve financial independence. During 1899, Dreiser and his first wife Sara stayed with Arthur Henry and his wife Maude Wood Henry at

3266-546: The first pregnant celebrity to appear on the cover of the magazine. For over a decade, the February issue has featured this award. In 2011, Russell Brand received the magazine's Fun, Fearless Male of the Year Award, joining Kellan Lutz and Paul Wesley (2010), John Mayer (2008), Nick Lachey (2007), Patrick Dempsey (2006), Josh Duhamel (2005), Matthew Perry (2004), and Jon Bon Jovi (2003). The Fun, Fearless Female of

3337-471: The generation that followed his. In his tribute "Dreiser" from Horses and Men (1923), Sherwood Anderson writes (almost repeated 1916 article ): Heavy, heavy, the feet of Theodore. How easy to pick some of his books to pieces, to laugh at him for so much of his heavy prose ... [T]he fellows of the ink-pots, the prose writers in America who follow Dreiser, will have much to do that he has never done. Their road

3408-574: The grocery chain Kroger , at the time the second largest in the US after Walmart , began covering up Cosmopolitan at checkout stands because of complaints about sexually inappropriate headlines. The UK edition of Cosmopolitan , which began in 1972, was the first Cosmopolitan magazine to be branched out to another country. It was well known for sexual explicitness, with strong sexual language, male nudity, and coverage of such subjects as rape. In 1999, CosmoGIRL! ,

3479-436: The life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837–1905), who became a Chicago streetcar tycoon. It is composed of The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic . The last was published posthumously in 1947. Dreiser often was forced to battle against censorship because his depiction of some aspects of life, such as sexual promiscuity, offended authorities and challenged popular standards of acceptable opinion. In 1930 he

3550-428: The magazine's editors and scouts searched America over the course of a year, seeing thousands of men before deciding on James. Cosmopolitan 's November issue features the hottest bachelors from all 50 states. Pictures and profiles of all the bachelors are posted on www.cosmopolitan.com, where readers view and vote for their favorite, narrowing it down to six finalists. A team of Cosmopolitan editors then selects

3621-399: The magazine's editors. Specifically, Cosmopolitan will only endorse candidates that support equal pay laws , legal abortion , free contraceptives , gun control , and oppose voter identification laws . Amy Odell, editor of Cosmopolitan.com, has stated that under no circumstances will the magazine endorse a political candidate that is anti-abortion : "We're not going to endorse someone who

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3692-501: The magazine. Under John Brisben Walker's ownership, E. D. Walker, formerly with Harper's Monthly , took over as the new editor, introducing color illustrations, serials and book reviews. It became a leading market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant , Ambrose Bierce , Willa Cather , Theodore Dreiser , Rudyard Kipling , Jack London , Edith Wharton , and H. G. Wells . The magazine's press run climbed to 100,000 by 1892. In 1897, Cosmopolitan announced plans for

3763-561: The magazine. Brown remodeled and re-invented it as a magazine for modern single career women, completely transforming the magazine into a racy, contentious, and successful magazine. As the editor for 32 years, Brown spent this time using the magazine as an outlet to erase stigma around unmarried women not only having sex, but also enjoying it. Known as a "devout feminist", Brown was often attacked by critics due to her progressive views on women and sex. She believed that women were allowed to enjoy sex without shame in all cases. She died in 2012 at

3834-468: The message that a woman should have men complement her life, not take it over. Enjoying sex without shame was also a message she incorporated in both publications. In Brown's early years as editor, the magazine received heavy criticism. In 1968 at the feminist Miss America protest , protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can". These included copies of Cosmopolitan and Playboy magazines. Cosmopolitan also ran

3905-501: The name Cosmopolitan Arianna . From January 1976 the masthead changed to the current Cosmopolitan . In 1996 the magazine, owned by Della Schiava Editore, ended its publication, which resumed with Mondadori in 2000, with the editor Silvia Brena. In July 2010 Cosmopolitan passed to the editorial Hearst Magazines Italia, becoming a monthly magazine. Theodore Dreiser Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( / ˈ d r aɪ s ər , - z ər / ; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945)

3976-648: The other three sections featured two novels and a digest of current non-fiction books. During World War II, sales peaked at 2,000,000. The magazine began to run less fiction during the 1950s. Circulation dropped to slightly over a million by 1955, a time when magazines were overshadowed during the rise of paperbacks and television. The Golden Age of magazines came to an end as mass market , general interest publications gave way to special interest magazines targeting specialized audiences. Cosmopolitan's circulation continued to decline for another decade until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965 and radically changed

4047-497: The teenage daughter of a colleague, but were never formally divorced. In 1913, he began a romantic relationship with the actress and painter Kyra Markham . In 1919, Dreiser met his cousin Helen Patges Richardson (1894–1955) with whom he began an affair. Through the following decades, she remained the constant woman in his life, even through many more temporary love affairs (such as one with his secretary Clara Jaeger in

4118-434: The two forms of media differed greatly in the ways they affected audiences and ended the review with the comment, "TV has conditioned us to accept a much harder degree of reality than most slick fiction has ever attempted." Cosmopolitan (magazine) Cosmopolitan (stylized in all caps ) is an American quarterly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as

4189-513: The years: Burt Reynolds 1972, Jim Brown 1973, John Davidson 1975, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1977, Scott Brown 1982, David Hasselhoff 1990. Male super-model Tracy James was named Cosmopolitan's 25th Anniversary Centerfold in 1995: his centerfold garnered so much attention that Cosmopolitan printed an extra 500,000 copies to meet demand. Cosmopolitan 's Editor-in-Chief Helen Gurley Brown sat with James for interviews on America's Talking and on Oprah with Oprah Winfrey , on how

4260-401: Was An American Tragedy , published in 1925. From 1892, when Dreiser began work as a newspaperman, he had begun to observe a certain type of crime in the United States that proved very common. It seemed to spring from the fact that almost every young person was possessed of an ingrown ambition to be somebody financially and socially. Fortune hunting became a disease with the frequent result of

4331-539: Was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Rhine Province of Prussia , and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio . Her family disowned her for converting to Roman Catholicism in order to marry John Dreiser. Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen children (the ninth of the ten surviving). Paul Dresser (1857–1906) was one of his older brothers; Paul changed the spelling of his name as he became

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4402-547: Was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency . Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana , to John Paul Dreiser and Sarah Maria (née Schanab). John Dreiser

4473-468: Was carried live to 14 stations with 10 more showing it via kinescope. In December 1951, critic John Crosby called Cosmopolitan Theatre "the Dumont network's most elaborate entry into the dramatic field". He noted that restricting the show's content to stories from the magazine "places a rather severe limit not only on the range of material but also on the type of material open to this program." He noted that

4544-536: Was known as the Harlan County War . Dreiser was a committed socialist and wrote several nonfiction books on political issues. These included Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), the result of his 1927 trip to the Soviet Union , and two books presenting a critical perspective on capitalist America, Tragic America (1931) and America Is Worth Saving (1941). He praised the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin during

4615-550: Was launched in May 1973. It continued publication until December 2018 when the licence holder Bauer Media axed the title, stating that it was no longer commercially viable. In 2023 it was reported that Hearst wanted to relaunch Cosmopolitan in Australia. The publication was relaunched in August of 2024. In 1973 there was a merger between Cosmopolitan and the Italian magazine Arianna , published by Mondadori since in 1957, assuming

4686-689: Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Swedish author Anders Österling , but was passed over by the Nobel Committee in favor of Sinclair Lewis . Politically, Dreiser was involved in several campaigns defending radicals he believed victims of social injustice. These included the lynching of Frank Little , one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World , the Sacco and Vanzetti case,

4757-481: Was published in Ainslee's Magazine . It was based on a lynching he witnessed in 1893. Dreiser's short story " Old Rogaum and His Theresa " was originally published in 1901. His second novel Jennie Gerhardt was published in 1911. Dreiser's portrayals of young women as protagonists dramatized the social changes of urbanization, as young people moved from rural villages to cities. Dreiser's first commercial success

4828-459: Was published in the October 1918 issue (two years after London's death ), and a constant presence from 1910 to 1918 was Arthur B. Reeve , with 82 stories featuring Craig Kennedy , the "scientific detective". Magazine illustrators included Francis Attwood, Dean Cornwell , Harrison Fisher , and James Montgomery Flagg . Hearst formed Cosmopolitan Productions (also known as Cosmopolitan Pictures),

4899-569: Was serialized, as was his The First Men in the Moon (1900). Olive Schreiner contributed a lengthy two-part article about the Boer War in the September and October issues of 1900. In 1905, William Randolph Hearst purchased the magazine for US$ 400,000 (equivalent to $ 13,564,000 in 2023) and brought in journalist Charles Edward Russell , who contributed a series of investigative articles, including "The Growth of Caste in America" (March 1907), "At

4970-438: Was shortened to Hearst's and was ultimately titled Hearst's International in May 1922. In order to spare serious cutbacks at San Simeon , Hearst merged the magazine Hearst's International with Cosmopolitan effective March 1925. But while the Cosmopolitan title on the cover remained at a typeface of eighty-four points , over time span the typeface of the Hearst's International decreased to thirty-six points and then to

5041-718: Was the tremendous tensions that can arise among ambition, desire, and social mores. Dreiser Hall, erected 1950 on the Indiana State University campus in Terre Haute, Indiana, houses the University's Communications Programs, Student Media ( WISU ), Sycamore Video and "The Sycamore" (annual yearbook), classroom and lecture space as well as a 255-seat proscenium theater. It was named for Dreiser in 1966. Dreiser College, at Stony Brook University located in Stony Brook, New York,

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