Life, 1910-12-01 · page 91 of 108
Life — December 1, 1910 — page 91: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, dominated by a full-page Marmon automobile advertisement featuring the car as "The Easiest Riding Car in the World," with trophies and a list of racing victories. The left column contains a satirical fiction piece titled "If Thackeray, et al, Came to Park Row" (continued from an earlier page). The narrative depicts a historical literary figure submitting serious verse to a modern Sunday newspaper editor, who dismisses it as uncommercial. The editor rewrites the poem as frivolous doggerel about horse racing—mocking how contemporary newspapers prioritize entertainment and "topical" comic content over serious literature. The joke: **What sold newspapers in the early 1900s was light, timely humor, not classical poetry**—a critique of lowbrow editorial tastes. The piece concludes with another famous historical figure (Sir Joshua Reynolds, the 18th-century painter) arriving, suggesting further satirical commentary on how modern journalism treats serious artists. The Cuba travel advertisement appears at bottom left.
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‘SAVE MAGAZINE MONEY: Order all of your periodicals through Bennett. Kew Catalogue, containing 3000 CLUB OFFERS, d Bennett your name and addres today. tes Ch If Thackeray, et al, Came to Park Row (Continued from page 1025) “But I think you will find my lines pas- sable, to say the least. A young military friend of mine, Lieut.-Col. James Wolfe, has praised them highly and it is largely upon his insistence that I have completed them and offer them for publication after pse of eight years. But I delay your reading.” The Sunday editor lifted the pages and let them fall at the rate of one every five seconds. In exactly three minutes be had read the one hundred and twenty- cight lines, two verses to the page. “Pretty fair verse,” he said authori- tatively, “but too serious. No call for that sort of thing now. If you'd only been around a couple of months ago I'd have jumped at it. It was all to the serious then and the Whirl put it over us with a five-verse poem on the latest dead celebrity illustrated up to a page. But the comic or topical is all the candy now. Let's see; couldn't you parody this some way?” The Sunday editor took a pad of paper and scribbled for a few minutes. w, something like this,” and he HE SECRET of these long- distance victories lies in the superior design, construc- tion and tire economy of the Marmon stock cars—the kind you buy. Nordyke & Marmon Co. read: Indianapolis (Estab. 1851) Indiana i Sty Years of Successful Manufactusing “The bell at last has clanged the final race, Scattered the tickets o’er the club- house lea. es Some of the Marmon Victories Cobe Cup Wheeler & Schebler Trophy re 200 Miles—{163}4 Mioutes 200 Miles—166}5 Minutes Por Wintér Tours~ Wine Be oo nae AllaiaSpctvay T re * uw lowtes: 182} in Summer Climes ies Clam 3-¢ Atlanta A. A. Trophy Los Angeles-- Class 3-€ \ 120 Miks— 107 Minutes 100 Miles— 8535 Minutes : + Los Angeles—Two Hours Los Angeles— Grand Prize C AWINTER PARADISE : gathered into a pig-tail behind, big bowed 148 Miles— 120 Minstes 100 Mies— 7634 Mioutes a profusely illustrated 80-page glasses, a smoothly shaven, kindly face, Vanéerbili—Donor’s Trophy; City of Atlanta Trophy 278.08 Miles— 256}5 Mio. 200 Mi Nw Fhes 1+5 Mio. ket with six complete maps, And quit the ‘track ia aoythiog ‘but a buff, big buttoned great-coat sur- also 72 views illustrative of this glee. Again the homeward losers’ train I mounted by a frill, knee breeches and buckles. Elgto-Kane County Trophy fear Grand Bras: 169 Miles— 18434 Minutes Miles— 8035 Se Mieutes And a number of other tees Distance Events Wonderful Island. Sent post- paid on receipt of 4c in stamps. FRANK ROBERTS, General Passenger Agent UNITED RAILWAYS OF HAVANA. 2 Broadway, Room 211 = = New York The caller gasped, snatched his pre- cious sheets and fied. Again the door opened and again the Sunday editor looked up from the wet proofs of the Grand Special Christmas Edition and glanced from head to foot at the following items of descrip- tion: A tricorn hat, curly gray locks 1027 The newcomer extended a card which the Sunday editor took and upon which he read: SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ARTIST PORTRAITS A SPECIALTY (Concluded on page 1029)