Life, 1915-08-26 · page 2 of 48
Life — August 26, 1915 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for Vanity Fair magazine, not political satire. The left column explains Vanity Fair's content—combining theater, sports, books, humor, and art magazines with "flavoring from London and Paris" and "seasoning from Broadway and Fifth Avenue." The right side features an art deco illustration of a fashionable woman in 1920s style dress, promoting a subscription offer: 25 cents per copy or $3.00 yearly. The text compares Vanity Fair to British publications *The Tatler* and *Sketch*, describing it as "a mirror of life, original and picturesque; informal, personal, intimate, frivolous; but with a point of view at once wholesome, stimulating and refreshing." No specific political figures or events are referenced—this is straightforward magazine promotion targeting Life's readers.
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VANITY FAIR | Pak togeneribe veRt GREE makes a special offer to your favorite theat agua your favorite | sports | vour favorite book magazin favorite humor mi favorite art magazine, then ¢ Navoring from London and sauce from T ‘ Broadway and Fifth Avenue pages of photographs, sketches and portraits, shake well, put on a heautiful color cover and you will get a general idea of this most successful of new magazines. Ask your newsdealer to show you a copy. Vanity Fair sells for 25 cents a copy or $3.00 a year. Each num ber will assure you an entertaining evening. ‘The subscription price is small when compared with the prices of theatre tickets or new govels or hotel dinners or any of the dozen and one other forms of pleasurable pastime, Send in the coupon below and hegin with the September num- her. You need not send the della dois eaders O ve By using the coupon below you can 25 conls w copy try out? Vanrry Farr at very small $3.00 a year expense—One Dollar for six months; For sale by and money need not be paid until after leading news you have received your first number. dealers everywhere \axrry Fair is to America what The Tadler and Skeich are to ngland: a mirror of life, original and picturesque; informal, personal, intimate, frivolous; but with a point of view at once wholesome, stimulating and refreshing. Vaniry Pair, +49 Fourth Avenue, New York comicbooks.com