Life, 1921-04-07 · page 33 of 38
Life — April 7, 1921 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily contains **book reviews and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main satirical content is "Rhymed Reviews" by Arthur Guiterman, critiquing a novel called *Potterism* by Rose Macaulay. The satire targets **intellectual pretension and shallow reformism**: it mocks "Mr. Percy Potter," apparently a character who manipulates truth to suit his worldview, and his followers who form leagues claiming to oppose "Potterism" but accomplish little. Guiterman's closing couplet—"His world is clay and he's the Potter"—sarcastically suggests that fraudulent men of all types remake truth as they please. "The Point of View" offers lighter satire about an elderly English actor who exchanges glands with a monkey, joking that despite the doctor's promise of rejuvenation, modern married life with its social obligations would make even the monkey prefer its original condition. The remainder consists of period advertisements (Tiffany silverware, Boston Garters, American Express travel services, Cortez cigars).
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Rhymed Revicws Pottensm (By Rose Macaulay. Boni & Liveright.) EIN, a little group unites To propagate a budding schism Against the tribe of Potterites, Against the curse of Potterism. With humbug nicely draped and gar- : f vAUA nished, With cant and muddling sentiment, With anything but Truth unvarnished His brain is mostly adipose ; Hard thought would make his reason totter; ers that he reads are those led by Mr. Percy Potter. | S | LVE RWARE Yet Mr. Potter’s daughter Jane, \ plump young person, bright and MADE BY TIFFANY & Co. eager. As sound as wheat and right as rain, IS SOLD ONLY BY TIFFANY & Co. Becomes an Anti-Potter Leaguer. The leaguers don't accomplish much Before the author drops the curtain ; But as for Jane, she beats the Dutch! The thing she wants is hers for certain. Her husband breaks his precious neck ; Her lover gets assassinated; MAIL INQUIRIES GIVEN PRoMPT ATTENTION But though the world should go to wreck, | Her own success you feel is fated. The quips that they who form the League Direct against this world of ours FIFTH AVENUE & 370 STREET Will cheer your mind without fatigue And stimulate its thinking powers. N NEW YORK Oh, what a sorry fraud is Man! Reformer, sinner, king or cotter, He molds the Truth to suit his plan; His world is clay and he’s the Potter Arthur Guiterman, The Point of View N English actor of seventy-four has made an exchange of glands with a : monkey. The doctor says he will go back | ee FOR g'MEN @f OF BRAINS about thirty years and be able to climb Yr trees without material inconvenience. What | ality First IGARS happened to the monkey is not recorded. If the monkey had been a business man, -MADE AT KEY WEST— or the head of a large family, with the prices what they are at present; if his wife were a society lady and he had to be dragged out to bridge parties and moving Picture comedies and art exhibitions, may- he he would feel that he had the best of it. “American Traveler in Europe—1921"" Fine Time for Vamps s } A bt-page Booklet, invaluable to UBLISHER: | think your book | 9 3 ‘ istautlon oa present doy Travel might go if you had a more up-to-date TP YOU.WENT. ABROAD ae ya eSirtyaegr! heroine. nd remained there | prospective European Travelers . ig andremi fh ‘enough to wear out the y Bestseuter: That sounds like a good Boston Garters you had on, you cou'd purchase AMERICAN EXPRESS idea. I'll revamp it. another pair in almost any foreign city or village TRAVEL DEPT. @ because the world discovered long ago the MAY 8 woman is blamed for making | f Quality Fit” value of the Boston Garter. 5 GEORGE FROST COMPANY, BOSTON a fool of a man wh $ y ' foo) man when he is really Makers of Velvet Grip Hose Supporters self-made. comicbooks.com