Life, 1907-12-19 · page 3 of 28
Life — December 19, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content features a Kelly-Springfield tire advertisement showing a horse-drawn carriage with well-dressed passengers in top hats—a deliberate anachronism emphasizing the tire's twelve-year durability by contrasting modern rubber tires with outdated transportation. The left column contains a literary discussion titled "The Literary Zoo," discussing poetic drama and theatrical criticism, apparently referencing theatrical figures and works from the period (names are unclear from context alone). The bottom features period advertisements for Whitman's Chocolates and Dard's flowers/plants—typical early 20th-century luxury goods marketing. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. It represents Life magazine's mix of light literary commentary and upscale advertising.
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Hira, Three Weeks AVE you read it?” “Have you read it?” y hummed it in my ear. And everybody said it With a most suggestive leer. Sol bought it. Yes, I bought it, And the meaning was so-clear, At the very start I caught it; ‘That's why I’m writing here. Then 1 read it. Yes, I read it, As my blushes have confessed, And I'm proud of dear old England— She had the book suppressed. Ruth Moselle Mould Exit the Poetic Play W HAVE observed with a certain melancholy interest the rise and fall of the poetic play as illustrated in the ad- mirable endeavors of Mr. Percy Mackaye, whose purpose and whose methods were set forth in this column some months ago. When “Jeanne D’Arc” was transferred from book to stage, without spelling ruin for its theatrical sponsors, we owned to that sense of elation which swells the literary breast—perchance the head—upon sceing literature patronized by the masses. It is true that Criticism and Dramatic Judg- ment, embodied in the person of Mr. A. Toxin Wurm, stood inexorable in the lobby, clearing confused minds who sought its counsel, with a few illuminating words: “Sothern and Marlowe are doing this, my boy—not Mackaye.” * * * H, UNBELIEVING ears!—still un- believing, whose fearful hollow, waked to poetry, and soothed by Sappho- Phaon for an hour, heard at the last the final curtain fall that shut Poseidon from the Broadway push, and smote Thalassa with a lingering blow (or, say “Thalatta” —tither is correct) ;—whose fearful hollow, as we said before, harb’ring ironic echoes of that , inexorable obit, seems to hear: h, not Mackaye, you have done for thi etry, we shall essay to climb again he more difficult vehicle of prose, in order to remark, without fear or misunder- standing, that “Sappho and Phaon,” in the book, seems to us a distinguished achievement in literature—quite the best thing, indeed, that Mr. Mackaye has accomplished. Unfortunately, it is a tru- ism that poetry does not pay; and it seems fo us a tragedy no less poignant than After a vehicle tire has persistently made good for over twelve years, it isn’t necessary to do more than remind you of the name— Kelly-Springfield Made at Akron, Ohio. Sold by carriage manufacturers everywhere. “ Rubber Tired” is a book about them. Sent free on request. CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. New York Office, 20 Vesey St. Christmas Gifts of Rare Plants | and Flowers Chocolates in great and Confections variety Rule in their own sweet way over the heart of every lover of fine candy. . Prompt Forty-fourth St. and reliable STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Madison Ave. et 1316 Chestnut St., Phila, 114 West 72d St..N. Y. | S&FVICE comicbooks.com