Life, 1920-07-22 · page 37 of 40
Life — July 22, 1920 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily showcases **The Blimp Magazine**, a fictional satirical publication that Life is mock-promoting. The satire mocks pretentious literary magazines by listing absurd "contributors": a Welsh rabbit breeder who's never published, a poet named after a Ouija board, and a seventeen-year-old debutante whose poem is about "deeper significance." The handwritten section appears to be a humorous submission or editorial note, likely satirizing overwrought artistic pretension. **"The Rift in the Cloud"** below is political verse about post-WWI logistics concerns—railroad congestion, food shortages—followed by commentary on the **League of Nations** debate. The dialogue jokes that small nations joining the League still won't have influence, but might "organize and form a union" anyway—satirizing both their powerlessness and optimistic internationalism. The ads (Dunhill Pipes, Cuticura) are period commercial matter unrelated to the satire.
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ene ‘he Mr. int. ith nce on, be- ind The Blimp Magazine (Thirty-seven Cents an Issue, Including Luxury Tax.) IF gratification by printing a partial list of contributors to the Blimp magazine. The Blimp magazine is seeking to find > best in poem, critique, essay and article. It is endeavoring to publish the happiest ts in art and thought, irre- spective of the race, creed, color and family dependents of the artist or thinker. It tries to eliminate the commonplace and trivial to reflect the salien of the hur n world and the Blimp magazine does not con- f to anyone or anything ¢ ributors to the Blimp Glawdys illiams is known as a breeder of blue-ribbon Welsh rabbits. She has never had anything published be- fore, except an advertisement for a sec- ond-hand automobile, Mortimer Ginsbery—the Edgar Lee asters of Arverne, N. J.—is the author of several remar! logues. His income-tax report was voted the year’s best bit of fiction. a Ouija, whose poem, provides itself with enormous le cloak and suit cata- “ Lallapluf " was used by the United States army as an intelligence test, composes its poems entirely by the use of lettered building blocks, which it assembles blind- folded. dlys Lookinglasse (“The Deeper Sig- nificance of Motherhood,” on page 33) is just seventeen. She will graduate from Miss Polishem’s finishing school in 1923 or ‘24. Tha she will, if she can find time between parties to attend to her classwork. The Blimp announces with pleasure the contribution to the Blimp of six kittens by Letitia, the office cat. H.W. H. ALL DUNHILL PIPES BEAR THE ROUN' WHITE DOT AND ARE STAMPED ni fonvon M.M. Importing Co. 6 East 45th St. N.Y. SOLE AGENTS IN THE U. S. lita wit fof fl a al | hem if ee meet A fae at ig sid oth cules ele Lilzays nen Taiwan Ghat if — peng had Hoalionade VL We UW, Se eda handariling sc fo why net } daseand \ Sar, = aud, Y Pern 3 a pawl! sty P 2 pew The Rift in the Cloud No matter how congested be the ways From old Castine to fair Los Angel-aize, : The politicians prove with active tongues, the freight. Thank Z The jam upon the railroads may be great HERE may be some congestion of rus, we've no congestion of the lungs! Potatoes, beans and fresh-brewed apple- — sass “"CHE small nations won't have much May litter up the yards in piling mass, of a show if the League of Nations While rotting on the rails, and on the doesn't go into effect.” docks, “Well, [ doubt if even then they will May lie load after load of fruity stocks. have much to say.” But courage take, my brother! In your fix “Oh, I don’t know. They might or- You still have much to cheer in politics. ganize and form a union.” comicbooks.com