Diamonds and veggies and… ham? Oh my! It’s laughs a-plenty at The Gibson Girl Review, as Amy and Katja dive into the shockingly-modern screwball comedy, Keeping Up with Lizzie, by Irving Bacheller (1911). Plus Amy explores the popularity and worldwide reach of the Gibson Girl… and may be the first historian ever to connect her popularity to the handsome bachelor Charles Dana Gibson himself.
Topics and shout-outs in today’s episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Irving Bacheller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Fraser Rae, Richard Harding Davis, Sarah Sundin, World War II, Lew Sarrett, William Trufant Foster, the Four Hundred, living tableaux, newspapermen, Harvard, finishing school, Harold Lloyd, Keystone Cops, silent comedies, influencers, and social media.