Life, 1920-06-10 · page 15 of 44
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**Main Content: "The Home Life of Movie Stars"** The article discusses the domestic lives of film actors, noting they're constantly busy preparing meals. It contrasts female stars (frequently seen in kitchens) with male stars who spend leisure time in automobiles or relaxing at home. **Cartoon Section: "A Delicate Question"** A professor of "Ancient Ambiguity" presents observations to a class about general intelligence levels in his department. A student asks if these remarks apply to students, creating a self-deprecating academic joke about whether professors or students are less intelligent. **Bottom Cartoons:** "Congress Resigns" and "Prices Fall" are political gags depicting financial/economic concerns—likely Depression-era commentary on economic instability and congressional dysfunction, presented as satirical wish fulfillment.
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The Home Life of Movie Stars USED to wonder what our movie stars did when they were able to enjoy home life, away from the dull grind of the camera. Since then Ive looked at a lot of illustrated magazines for existence is the satisfying of quisitive people as myself. I have whose re just such learned I have learned that the home life of the lady stars is a busy one. They are forever getting k things. Many’s the lady star I have seen standing in her kitchenette—sometimes it is the butler’s pant beating up something in a bowl. The bowl is always tipped the other way, so I have never learned whether it contains an omelet or a salad dressing. Whatever it is it knows its place. In four hundred and twelve photograplis of this particular bit of home life, rot once has the stuff in the bowl dared to splash ke spots on the lace of the simple little apron from Boué Szurs. Some kind friend in India or Indiana is for- ever sending them dogs or armadillos or gnus ready toc out and or someting. When the expressman has made his daily 1, the lady stars go out on the lawn and stand beside their new pets. It’s too bad there weren't movie stars when there were rocs pterodactyls. Someone would have sent them to the stars, and we should never have had to depend on fable and science in learning what they looked like. The male.stars’ home life is a little different. Most of their spare moments are spent in either s or leaving new automobiles. Tired of ey sometimes go up on the verandas beautiful homes, lean against a pillar and gaze off into the distance. They always wear specially made gazing clothes for this purpose. Sometimes the costume is something like a stevedore's lounge for casual afternoon gazing the favorite garments ble a set of those Clothes for Country Wear you see in © programs. Once ma great while a male star diverts himself by shaking hands with the president of a movie company. This, however, only when the star has just arrived from a record- g trans-continental trip to begin work for the company. Easier Said H! SBAND: Don't you think, my dear, we'd better stop our accounts and pay cash for everything? Wire Sut where are we going to get the cash? CONGRESS RESIGNS SLIPPERY-WEATHER MOVIE OF A DOG TRYING TO GET FROM UNDER— A Delicate Question “y! .” said the Professor of Ancient Ambiguity to the solid block of intelligence massed before him, “it has been very gratifying to me to observe how the general average of ability has risen in this department during the past few y When I first came here, there wasn’t anything like the ¢ ity shown that there is to-day. We can now teach things that couldn’t even have been attempted, say, ten years ago, The intelligence shown in the Ambiguity Department will now, I think, compare favorably with that shown in any other depart- ment of the university. “Do those remarks apply to the students, sir?” backward member of the class. ventured a PRICES FALL comicbooks.com