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Life — July 29, 1920 — page 33: Life, 1920-07-29

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This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main content features: 1. **Commercial Art School Advertisement** (top left): Meyer Both College promotes itself as a leading commercial art organization that trained advertisers' artists. It's a straightforward vocational school ad. 2. **The Pocket Premo Camera Advertisement** (center/right): Eastman Kodak Company advertises their compact pocket camera ($13.85), highlighting its automatic focus and portability—a consumer product pitch. 3. **Book Reviews** (bottom): Literary reviews of contemporary works, including novels about radicalism and a horse autobiography—cultural commentary without political cartoon elements. 4. **Bellans Advertisement** (bottom left): A patent medicine ad for indigestion relief. There are **no political cartoons or caricatures** on this page. It's a typical early 20th-century magazine page mixing commercial advertisements with book reviews—standard Life magazine content from this era.

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OMMERCIAL RT Meyer Both College is conducted as a sent of the Meyer Both Company, the ly known commercial art organization sho produced and sold last year over 12,600 cai ¢rawingy—used by the leading advertisers of ‘Sates and Canada QU get the benefits of 19 years’ successful exper- rece in this course-—and are taught the very fundamentals which enabled this organiza tion to dominate its field. To give you facts you ought to know about this intensely inter- ling. highly paid profession—(equally open gen and women}—we will send our special you will pay WE TEACH NE. Cor. Michigan Ave. at amb St, CHICAGO, ILL, a Ready—on the instant The Latest Books The Pocket Premo (Continued from page 202) Snaps into exact focus, every time, as the front board drops. pa long residence abroad, settles eenwich Village shortly before April, Mrs. Austin’s purpose is to show types of radicalism in public and al interaction; the result is what te called a novel of opinion, since is wholly subordinate to every- ys“ view” of this, that and the other. renarisk Town, by Sheila Kaye-Smith. P. Dutton & Co.) Another novel of ex, ike he author's Sussex Gorse, aworthy successor to that fine fic- The story of a man who had to se between a woman and a town that as we say, “the pride of his heart.” chose the town; then the womarm W herself, and by that act placed her- between him and his choice. jee We a Far-Eastern Policy? by fes H. Sherrill. (Charles Scribner's h) General Sherrill favors friend- with Japan rather than concern for ; wants Canada, Australia and the ed States to police the Pacific; wants The pictures it makes are 2% x 3%; the picture of it, above, shows its extreme compactness. Loads with 12 Exposure Premo Film Packs—‘‘ Just drop in a pack.’’ Eastman-made film, of course. Has Kodak ball bearing shutter, meniscus achro- matic lens, seal grain leather covering (real leather). Refined finish throughout. Price, $13.85. All Kodak Dealers Sell the Pocket Premo Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, N. Y. Rochester Optical Department Australia or Great Britain to hold the Captain Brett Young, though entirely Hot water Sure Relief Caroline and Marshall Islands, and sug- gests that we induce Japan to relinquish her claims to them by granting her greater leeway in northwest Asia. The Autobiography of a Race Horse, by L. B. Yates. (George H. Doran Com- pany.) Mighty good reading; and we should think any lover of sport in gen- eral would devour it. Poems: 1916-1918, by Francis Brett Young. (E. P. Dutton & Co.) As a poet, worthy of the company of young English poets in which he finds himself—Sassoon, Squire, Nichols, Graves and the rest— achieves, so far, no such special distine- tion as he gained in fiction with The Crescent Moon, The only original color- ing in these verses is in the poems on African themes and the long poem, “Thamar,” inscribed to Thamar Karsa- vina, the dancer. Grant M. Overton. comicbooks.com