10-Story Book, July 1931

Catalog Description *10-Story Magazine*, Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 1931). This pulp fiction issue contains eight stories and serials. "Peacock Alley" by Ward Andrus Scranton depicts two women soliciting clients in a hotel lobby during a winter blizzard, evading hotel security until forcibly ejected. "The Street Which Artists Loved to Paint" by Mary Englands follows Mrs. Blissful, a woman whose beauty has "lured men to Hell," living on a narrow brick street famous among Impressionist painters for its gasometer and cathedral silhouette—the narrative flashes back to 1916 when she and another woman encounter soldiers on leave. Additional stories include "Dr. Manchonche Steals" by Billy Melton; "Two Gentlemen at Forty" by August W. Derleth; "The Glass Vat" by H. F. Jamison; "The Absent Minded Professor's Daughter" by Edouardé; "Somebody Home" by Artemus Calloway; and "Ideal" by Mama Halisch. The issue features numerous portrait photographs and is illustrated by multiple artists including Charles O. Longabaugh and Bruce Patterson. Cover features screen player Roberta Gale.