Life, 1910-10-13 · page 5 of 44
Life — October 13, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment content**, not political satire. The main feature celebrates **Nelba Melba**, the famous opera singer, who came to America to make phonograph records for Victor (now RCA Victor). The article describes how Melba spent August 20-27 in Victor's laboratories recording songs using "new and improved recording process." Her testimonial quote emphasizes her satisfaction with the recordings' quality. The page includes advertisements for **N.L. Douglas hand-sewn shoes** and **Cortez Cigars**, typical of early 20th-century magazine advertising. A sidebar piece titled "With Apologies to François Villon" appears to be humorous verse about missing or displaced celebrities—satirizing the era's celebrity culture through playful geographic confusion about famous figures' whereabouts.
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LUE nthe Mountain Top” The Montclair Forty Minutes from B'way Montelair, N. J. With Apologies to Francois Villon Madriz has fled, but where is Zelaya? Where, changing the geography of our iequity, is Castro? Where is Kuropat- and where is that unfortunate ad- whose misfortunes in the Sea of ade perfect the imperfect’ An- ion of his name as Nobodygotoff ? We know where Laura Jean Libby is, tot where is Marie Corelli? Where is Captain Streeter, where is Richard Yates, where, even, is Len Small? Where is Alexieti and where is Gorky? Where is Gaarles Warren Fairbanks? Where is te Ruel? Where is young Mr. Gates, here is Cis. Lindly? And Roni de wood and Moyer, Jean de s Lipton, Clara Ward Baroness Cedarstrom? where Yuan Shih Khai? Where is Pennypacker, and where is Paul Redieske? Where is James J. Jef- fries? Where is Curtis Guild, where is Von J where is Charles Major? y Ito has passed to his reward, where is Nogi? Where is Walter Wellman? Where is George ? Where is Ben Odell? Where is Frank Back? We know where Ballinger is, aj we have a notion where he ought to le, but where, of late, is Giff Pinchot? Where is Abdul Hamid and where is the Shah of Persia, lately unshawed ? ere is the grand Mama of Tibet? © is Stoessel, court-martialled hero cf Port Arthur? Where is Loubet? Where is Morales? Where is Dr. Mary rd Harding Davis has just come % for the third time, but where is Rud- ard Kipling? Where is Lord Dunraven, and, it may be pertinent to ask by this lime, where is the Earl of Euston? Where is Mary Ellen Lease and where is lary McGann? We have heard from Weyler sevenlly, but where is Garcia? Le _,DOUGLAS Melba “I have tried the records and find them really wonderful reproductionsof my singing. I feelthatin them all the care and trouble to which your experts, went have found preatreward. My riends who have heard them are simply delighted with them. Melba makes records exclusively for the Victor came to America a week ahead of time for the sole purpose of making records for the Victor. She spent the entire week of August 20-27 in the Victor laboratories at Camden, mak- ing a series of records by our new and improved record- ing process, and was so en- thusiastic with the result that she made over her records already listed in the Victor catalogue. These new Melba records are truly remarkable exam- ples of the famous singer's glorious voice and conclu- sively demonstrate the great progress of the Victor. These Melba records will be placed on sale with all Victor dealers in the early future. In the meantime drop in any store where you see the famous Victor trade- mark and just ask to hear the Victor or Victor-Victrola. You'll be astonished and wonder why you have waited so long. “Fis A MASTERS VOICE” etcus Pat or WANES SEWE: a) H fe) E S$ 8 $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 & $5.00 DMEN'S $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4.00 A> 8 $200, $2.50 and $3.00 THE STANDARD YEARS 7 Ma absaluety the most and best shoes for the +L. Douglas name rice are stamped on the bottom Fast Color Eyelets. 9 SUBSTITUTE! If your dealer write for Mail Order Catalog. | S, 155 Spark St., Brockton, Mass. | Dead? No doubt. And Cissie Loftus? Where is Eugene Cowles? And Alton B. Parker, sage of Esopus? Where is Hershberger and where is Bert Waters Heffelfinger we hear from. Where is Muley Hafid, and where is the Mad Mul lah? Hobson we keep track o where is Wainwright? Where is Dr. Cook? Where is Cap Loose? Where is Carrie Nation? Wh is Raisuli? These men and women made a noise Where is Schley? once, but we wail with Villon: “ Where are the snows of yesteryear?" —Chicago Tribune oor “Wit do you three hours every day in your ante ke that patient wait room? "* “He needs rest,’" explained the doctor, “and th the only way I can compel Courier-Journal. 3 AGARS -MADE AT KEY WEST— him to take it.’