Life, 1907-04-04 · page 10 of 48
Life — April 4, 1907 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The main content features a **Peerless Motor Car advertisement** showing an early 1900s automobile with passengers in front of an ornate building. The ad emphasizes the car's safety, comfort, and suitability for "social uses and steady touring." Below are smaller advertisements: **Life's Prints** (photogravure art reproductions) and **Park & Tilford** (a tea company founded 1840), highlighting their product quality and pricing. On the right, text discusses **Bernard Shaw's theatrical works**, praising his ability to create compelling characters and entertainment value—this appears to be editorial content rather than advertising. The page represents typical early 20th-century magazine layout mixing commercial advertisements with cultural commentary.
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“All That the Name Implies” The Peerless is known in all lands—and everywhere its construction is approved by practical men, and its lines are admired by all who have eyes for proportion It is still more honored at home. In the special safety of its drop frame, in the peculiar comfort of its springs, in the luxury of its appointments, it is a de- light to the most exacting, both for social uses and steady touring. Write to.day for our new catalogue “Q," which fully describes the 1907 models. PEERLESS MOTOR CAR CO., 2449 Oakdale St., Cleveland, Ohio Member A. L. A.M. LIFE’S PRINTS LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 W. 31st St., NEW YORK CAPTAIN KID After W.B. Ker Photogravure in Brown, 20 by 15 in. $1.00 ing lacking to the fun of the entertainment, except the solemnity of those spectators who feel bound to take the affair as a profound and subtle historic study.” * + * Shakespeare in other forms than “Richard.” “He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more.” (Including or excluding G. B.S.?) “His gift of telling a story (provided some one clse told it to him first); his enormous power over language, as conspicuous in his senseless and silly abuse of it as in his miracles of expression ; his humor, his sense of idiosyn- cratic character; and his prodigious fund of that vital energy which is, it seems, the true differentiating property behind the faculties, good, bad or indifferent, of the man of genius, enable him to entertain us so effectively that the imaginary scenes and people he has created become more real to us than our actual life—at least, until our knowledge and_ grip of actual life begin to deepen and glow beyond the common.” * 8 PSE DIXIT, et exit, R. U. E. (The limelight a little more to the side, please.) Mr. Shaw has sworn an oath never again to cross the threshold of a theatre in the capacity of critic. The ego in his cos- mos is intent only on creation. LIVER WENDELL HOLMES was prodigal of good advice that has passed from mouth to mouth and enlarged our common store of wisdom; but one little pregnant paragraph has been ex- ploited all too little. It was, in effect, that when a young writer of talent discovered himself a humorist, it was the part of prudence to gain a reputation first by serious productions; otherwise the public never could be taught to take him seriously. Park &Tilford FOUNDED 1840 NEW YORK Teas of equal worth cannot be bought outside of Park & Tilford’s Stores at equal prices. 28c to $1.50 w. Original purity and flavor absclutely unchanged, as Park & Tilford never blend their high grade selec- tions with inferior qualities, Complete Price List mailed promptly few qual the | or | knox fore to ¢ But wher musi of tl lack singi pani law, at al selec recer tales Texa these cient portr woul alrea Storie comicbooks.com