Parody newsreel with funny visuals and comedian protraying the infamous Lord Haw-Haw

 "Lord Haw-Haw" was a public figure everyone in the world knew during Kay's era. 

Sports in Kay's era: the 1942 Rose Bowl

 Here's a short video clip about the relocation of the annual football game from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina. The Los Angles Times published a brief history piece which sums it up.

Belgian humor at the Germans' expense

 The Kay Kemble project has stretched me in various ways, including learning about history, culture, and geography. I'm afraid my knowledge of Belgium used to be fancy horses, good beer, Jacques Brel, and Hercule Poirot, the last of whom wasn't even a real person.

But a while back I made a note to myself to look up the history of the Belgian newspaper Le Soir. The paper was taken over in 1940 by collaborationists who accepted the German occupation. In 1943, a resistance group published a parody of Nazi-positive version of Le Soir, which came to be known as the Faux Soir. 

 

In the 1950s, a comedy film called "Un Soir de Joie:" depicted the Faux Soir being created and distributed. My French is both limited and terrible but this video clip gave me the basic idea of the 1954 film, which apparently was re-released in 1959.

 

This Wikipedia article gives a good summation of what was in the parody, how it reached the public, and the story of what happened afterward.

Crime in Kay's day: New York City's "Mad Bomber"

Front page of 1951 newspaper:

 

For details on the search for George Metesky and the early profiling techniques used to find him, you can go here and here.

Forgettable culture from Kay's era #1: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)

 The Kay Kemble project is of course dedicated to preserving culture and history, but sometimes just because something's old, it doesn't make it good. Asnd throwing together a sprinkling of celebrities with a bunch of character actors and some animals with everyone yelling doesn't really make a good screwball comedy. 

Toxic beauty magazine ad from Kay's era