Life, 1920-12-09 · page 38 of 44
Life — December 9, 1920 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and book reviews** with one satirical cartoon. ## The Cartoon The single cartoon (bottom left) depicts a **Londoner and New Yorker conversation**. A British visitor complains about New York's "excessively straight streets and buildings" compared to London's layout. The New Yorker responds confidently: "We'll soon fix that. There's a little place around the corner where they know me!" **The joke**: The New Yorker ironically suggests he can use personal connections ("where they know me"—implying a speakeasy or illegal establishment) to obtain alcohol during Prohibition, thereby making the streets "crooked" through drunkenness. This references the chaotic social effects of Prohibition (1920-1933) and the prevalence of underground drinking establishments. ## Rest of Page The remaining content consists of: sport glove advertisements (R.E. Bradford), book reviews (including works about artificial light and WWI-related titles), Bayer Aspirin advertisement, and resort advertisements for Pinehurst, North Carolina and Cuticura Soap.
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LIFE ce B R A D” Sport Gloves Unlined, lined and fur lined gloves for street and sports wear. $6.50 to $35.00 SPORTIF is the glovea wetting will not ruin. Made with removable lining. The approved model for skating, ski- ing and all outdoor win- ter sports. Sized for both Men and Women, At leading dealers’ Style slips of other Models ‘on req R. E. BRADFORD 12 Barr Street Gloversville, N. Y. COPY THIS SKETCH ‘and let me sce what you can do with It $30. fe tate your ott Landon School ef Car ening Londoner: 1 FIND YOUR EXCESSIVELY STRAIGHT STREETS AND BUILDINGS A LITTLE HAKD TO GET USED TO, AFTER LONDON, New Yorker: wWwe'tt soon FIX THAT. THERE'S A LITTLE PLACE AROUND THE CORNER WHERE THEY KNOW ME! The Latest Books (Continued from page 1106) jectionable is handled cleanly—in the main, even a little austerely. Artificial Light: Its Influence on Civiliza- tion, by M. Luckiesh. (The Century Com- pany.) By an expert on color and lighting, but “popular” throughout.” Of course a rudimentary knowledge of chemistry and electricity makes possible a keener enjoy ment of the book. Fascinating isn’t too strong a word, for the author seems to have neglected nothing, from the use of light to sterilize water for swimming-pools to the attempts to use colored light as an xsthetic aid to music. The Fight for Freedom, by Deiglis Gold- ring. (Thomas Seltzer.) Play in four acts Time, England during the war. Theme— well—about what Mr. Galsworthy’s Saint's Progress would have been if Mr. W. L. George, he of Blind Alley, had handled it. It is a subject that would have pleased Bernard Shaw, and the treatment markedly suggests Shaw, though the dexterity in dia logue isn't so great. Touch and Go, by D. H. Lawrence (Thomas Seltzer.) Three-act play at capital and labor. The setting is an E lish mining village, the action is incon- clusive and the people are dull. The preface, dealing partly with a people's theatre, is one of the most extraordinary blends of non- sense and platitude we can remember. ne spirin Always say ‘‘Bayer”’ Unless you see the name “Bayer” on tablets, you are not getting gen- uine Aspirin prescribed by: physi- cians for 21 years and proved safe by millions. Directions in package. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manu- facture of Monoaceticacidester of Saticylicac‘d, SNORTH CAROLINA Guests have returned year—not alone for ideal sport, but for the constant revival of happy memories, the renewal of old friendships. This seasos makes an even quarter-century for Pinehurst. CAROLINA HOTEL Now Open Special Rates up to February Holly Inn and Berkshire opea early in January. Championship events in every field of sport the season thru. Golf (4-18 hole Donald Ross Courses), Tennis, Shooting, seback Riding, Racing, Driving, Motoring, Airplaning. For information, address: General Office, Pinehurst, N. C.cr LEONARD TUFTS 282 Congress Street, Boston Cuticura Soap —Is Ideal for — The Complexion Seen Ota ce ee err Ts 7 Focomprtes The War, the World and Wilson, George Creel. (Harper & Bros.) An ini passioned defense of President Wilson and his work at Paris, mixed with eulogy. We are not convinced that Mr. Creel, who de clares every one of the Fourteen Points to have been written into the Treaty, is Mr. Wilson's wisest champion. Somehow Ray Stannard Baker's What IWilson Did at Paris, which merely contends that the President did as well as anyone could have done, seems to us more likely to satisfy the doubters and moderate the scorners. However, every campaign has its plumed knight, though his plume be nothing but a goose quill. Forward, the Light Brigade! Those who do not like Mr. Creel (there are some) are at liberty to shout: “ Light Brigade is right!” The Life of Kitchener, by Sir George Arthur, (The Macmillan Company.) Two of the volumes deal with Kitchener before the Great War; the third completes his story. This is the “ official” biography, su perbly printed and illustrated, conventional, correct in tone and full of shortcomings. The general reader will probably be disap- pointed because the author, who was Kitch- ener’s secretary, has no true gift for paint- ing the man; the specialist will find that the book raises more questions than it answers as in its account of Kitchener's death. Grant M, Overton WOMAN can never understand what her husband does with his money, even when she gets it herself. comicbooks.com