Life, 1915-03-18 · page 9 of 40
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**Main Cartoon: "How Geniuses Are Discovered"** This satirical cartoon depicts a monkey hanging from a tree branch above a group of gleeful monkeys below. The caption reads: "OH, MR. MONK, YOU'RE TOO FUNNY FOR ANYTHING! YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE GONE ON THE STAGE." The joke mocks the entertainment industry's talent-discovery process. It suggests that performing ability (or lack thereof) is so subjective that even a monkey could be "discovered" and praised as comic material. This ridicules both theatrical talent scouts who make questionable casting choices and the audience's gullible appreciation of mediocre performers. **"Southern Golf" Article** The accompanying article humorously describes the miseries of golfing in the American South during winter—featuring unexpected weather changes, tropical diseases, and other southern-specific hardships that plague visiting golfers.
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453 Southern Golf NE of the principal industries of the South during the cold weather is golf There is about Southern golf every necessary feature to a modern industry—child labor, represented by caddi a sweating system, represented by the players; doctored trials and balances, represented by the scores. A Southern golf links, if it be far enough away the best place to improve your game. There being no witnesses, it is a poor player who cannot take off ten strokes from his usual score. “What I did in South Carolina in the winter of 19—" will be found for years to come to he an ever-present help in time of trouble. You arrive at your links on a warm, sum- mery day, and, hastily arraying yourself in a suit of silk pajamas, joyously proceed to drive off. Henceforth you become absorbed in the occupation of trying to get your ball into a hole in a sandpaper green, with which every Southern golf links is provided. Thus ab- sorbed, you do not notice that it has been growing colder, owing to the sudden arrival of an impromptu “Norther”. Then, with icicles forming on various parts of your anat- omy, you hurry back to your hotel and call for ciderdowns. But it is too late. The fol- lowing week, after you have at last succeeded in reaching home and lie in bed with bron- chitis, tons’ s, pneumonia, influenza, grippe and other Southern accompaniments, while two P trained nurses soothe your feverish brow, you YY) | are heard to exclaim in your wild delirium: fi ig “One Sunny South on the half shell, with » ‘Ayeh : 2 ® ten putts on the home green, please.” Ry ah} M, HILE it takes two to make a bargain, only one gets it. Ssosn Waty HOW GENIUSES ARE DISCOVERED The Onlookers: ott, MR. MONK, YOU'RE TOO PUNNY FOR ANYTHING! You REALLY SHOULD HAVE GONE ON THE STAGE THE LATEST FICTION