Life, 1910-09-08 · page 34 of 40
Life — September 8, 1910 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and light entertainment**, not political satire. **Content:** - A **Makaroff Russian Cigarettes ad** claims superior quality with a profile illustration - **"Charles Wyndham and the Girls"** is a brief comedic anecdote: an actress watching veteran actor Sir Charles Wyndham deliver a monologue complains he hasn't gotten a laugh in ten minutes—a joke about aging performers losing their touch - **"A Plea for the Reporter"** is a satirical essay defending newspaper reporters. It argues that history falsely credits famous figures (Hudson, Fulton, Bell, Darwin, Shakespeare) when others made the discoveries. Similarly, reporters deserve credit for finding and reporting details—like identifying which citizen was thrown from a car at 2:30 a.m.—that historians will later need but won't have recorded **The satire's point:** Newspaper reporters are underappreciated fact-finders doing unglamorous but essential historical work. The page also advertises **Field and Stream magazine** with fishing paintings and **Hunyadi Janos** digestive water.
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The cigaret that has made good on the broad- est claims ever made for anything to smoke— MAKAROFF We At mi. RUSSIAN Yon Quarter CIGARETS If you haven't seen the big dollar offer, write for it now. PRotcarof ft - etre Mail address—95 Milk Street, Boston Charles Wyndham and the Girls ere was a bencht performance for the Actors’ Fund given in’ Washington last spi and Sir Charles Wyndham, the veteran English player, volunteered His part was to make a short speech telling how the funds realized were to be appiied Two song-and-dance girls from one of the cheaper theatres came from their dressing-room, and stopped to await their call. One of them thought she would sce what was going on, so she peeked out on the stage “Who's on now?’ her companion asked “Ob,” said the other girl, “it’s an old man doing a monologue. He's been on ten minutes, and hasn't had a laugh ! "'"—Lippincott's. A Plea for the Reporter Wuen we consider that Hudson did not discover New York Bay, but that Verrazzano did; when we consider that Fulton did not invent the steamboat, but that Fitch did; when we consider that Bell did not invent the telephone, that Morse did not invent the tele: graph, that Guten y did not invent the printing press, that Morton did not discover anzsthes' Darwin did not discover evolution, that Shakes- + LIFE: peare did not wr “Hamlet,” that Homer did not write the Iliad, that Galileo did not say, “And still it moves,” that Wellington did not “Up guards and at them,” that W: ington did not win the battles of the Revolution, that Robespierre did not create the Reign of Terror, that Nero was not a monster, that Cleopatr: not beautiful—when we refi history is emblazoned with the tides of usurpers and that trie merit lies un- chronicled in the grave, a word or two of ape much-berated enemy of the tru newspaper. If history, witl sand years’ leisure at her disposal, es not find out just who set uy throne or pulled down an ol us forgive the reporter if } the Christian name of th citizen who was thrown fre mobile at 2.30.2 m—New } ing Post. LIVER UPSET? Try Hunyadi Janos NATURAL APERIENT WATER Avoid Unscrupulous Druggists Driscole’s Greatest Painting of a Small Mouthed Bas @ In our Special April Fishing Number we ran a four colored reproduction of os d H. A. Driscole’s famous trout pictures, “ Hooked,” a black and white cut of whidi shown here. @ We had so many requests from our readers for copies of this reproduction that we deald to have a number reproduced, and also arranged with Mr. Driscole for a companion pais for a frontispiece in our July issue. @ When framed it is impossible to tell these four colored reproductions from the original d by Mr. Driscole, miniatures of which are shown here. These two reproductions in fa colors, when framed in gold and in a shadow box, make a beautiful pair of pictures fa dining room, camp, club or office of any admirer of these two game fishes. @ We have spared no expense in reproducing a few of these paintings for the readen & FIELD AND STREAM. Many of our readers have been delighted with the tt picture and we know they will welcome the reproduction of this companion picture o & small mouthed bass. @ As we have only arranged for a limited number of these pictures we would sugges ¥# taking advantage of this special offer while these pictures last : SPECIAL OFFER Special Off FIELD AND STREAM for 16 months regular price $2.40} A\[| Three fi These two reproductions, regular price 25 centseach .50 Si wf] Total, $2.90 . Price for Single Pictures, 25 cents each, postpaid FIELD AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 24-26 East 21st Street, New York Qi Some ¥: Tm rs I make From Alas! The « Me soo1 Bat v