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Ruth Hale Illustrations
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Hale at age eighteen, around the time she left art school in Philadelphia and moved to Washington, D.C., to begin her journalism career. Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 115 In this 1918 portrait with her perplexed-looking infant son, Hale strikes a highly uncharacteristic sentimental pose. Manning Harris was the photographer. Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 116 [3.81.184.170] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:06 GMT) “This is the face with which Ruth defied [Secretary of State] Charles Evans Hughes and all the hosts who spoke of compromise,” her son wrote, in describing this early-1920s portrait. Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 117 Heywood Broun in 1922, his first full year at the New York World, where his column “It Seems to Me” already was one of the news paper ’s most popular features. Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 118 [3.81.184.170] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:06 GMT) In this illustration accompanying Hale’s humorous essay in the 1922 anti censorship book Nonsenseorship, artist Ralph Barton—perhaps unknowingly— captured her role in Broun’s work. 119 Highly regarded for his portraits of New York celebrities, Nickolas Muray also was Hale’s good friend, which may account for her letting a little vulnerability show when he photographed her here. She was a chain smoker. Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 120 [3.81.184.170] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:06 GMT) Heywood Hale Broun’s parents began treating him like an adult at an early age. He remembered, for example, that when he was too small to reach the table at their frequent dinner parties, they boosted his chair with a telephone book and “left me to deal with the witty dinner partners to my left and right.” He grew up to become an excellent conversationalist. Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 121 Hale looks thoughtful in this photograph, probably taken in 1928. The title of the magazine article it accompanied asked, “Has Modern Woman Disrupted the Home?” Courtesy of Heywood Hale Broun. 122 [3.81.184.170] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:06 GMT) Annie Riley Hale, her daughter Ruth’s constant adversary, was a fervent antisuffragist. Yet she happily voted once women had that right, and in 1932 entered the California Democratic primary, hoping to become the party’s U.S. Senate candidate. This two-sided campaign card shows the idiosyncratic platform that helped her attract more than 7,000 votes (versus the winner’s approximately 262,000 votes). Courtesy of Patrick S. Hale. 123 ...