Life, 1921-06-16 · page 28 of 36
Life — June 16, 1921 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief humorous anecdotes typical of Life magazine's satirical content, plus advertising. **The cartoons/jokes address:** 1. **"No Trespassers Allowed"** — A pilot crashes into someone's cellar; the homeowner threatens him. The joke mocks invasive wartime aviation incidents. 2. **"Dnouement"** — Satirizes overwrought literary drama by contrasting it with a humble classified ad about an unused baby carriage—suggesting ordinary life contains more genuine pathos than theatrical artifice. 3. **"Road to Mandalay"** — A guest complains about pedestrians being "unsophisticated"; the British class-consciousness joke mocks snobbery about common people. 4. **"The Irish Lad and the Yiddish Boy"** — An interfaith dispute where both boys acknowledge their respective priests/rabbis know more because they "tell them everything"—gentle humor about childhood religious instruction and confession. 5. **"Honor Indeed"** — Dark WWI satire: future children will brag grandfathers received war decorations, but one will counter that his grandfather was merely published on a "slacker list" (cowards who avoided service). The page is primarily **humorous filler content**, with heavy advertising for Life magazine subscriptions below.
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One of the wings of the plane had broken and its pilot, after crashing through a mass of planking and plaster, found himself rest- ing on a concrete surface in utter darkness “Where am I?" he asked feebly. “You're in my cellar,” came an ominous voice out of the blackness. I'm wateh- ing you —American Legion Weekly. Dnouement The great American dramatist will be the man or woman who can write a one-act play as poignant as a seven-word want ad which the Houston Post discovers: For Sale, a ; never used. —Louisville Courier-Journal On the Road to Mandalay Hostess: Do you like motoring in this country? Guest; Rather! unsophisticated, what? Looker-On baby carria, Old YES, | WAVE TELL BARROW Gardener: or TH pect The pedestrians are so A woma: her.—New Orli (Calcutta). ns ntleman ME WHY YOU ALWAYS PULL INSTEAD OP PUSHIN "CAUSE I ATES THE SIGHT BLOOMING THING.—Tatler. is a flood of loveliness. The Irish lad and the Yiddish boy were engaged in verbal combat. Finally the sub. ject came down to their respective churches, “1 guess I know that Father Harrit knows more than your Rabbi,” the little Irish boy insisted. “Shure, he does; vy not?” replied the Jewish boy. “ You tell him everything —Boxing Bl. Honor Indeed In a generation from now when a proud urchin says, “ My grandpa received a decora. tion in the great war,” another urchin will get back with, “ That’s nothin’, my grandpa’s name was published in the slacker years after he got back from France » York Morning Telegra A Switch in Time First Ovptimex: Did you get switchings when you were a kid? Ovotimer: Did 1? Why never had to get our orchard yned —Stanford Chaparr (to new DED TO KEEP YOU, BUT Your Srconp 11? Every married couple eventually bec a contributor to “Lire.” —Penn State Fri Dam Times-Picayt simultaneously in the United States, Possessions. Title registered in U. S. ce. $5.00 a year in advance, Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Single current copies, 15 cents. Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, 25 cents. Issues prior to 1910 out of print The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. published every Thursday in, Canada and British The foreign trade supplied from Live's London Office, Rolls II Breams Buildings, London, E. C. Canadian distributor, J. R. T. 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stampe addressed envelope. Lire does not hold elf responsible for the | non-return of unsolicited contributions, ‘otice of change of address should reach this office two to the date of issue to be affected. ks pr How Would You Like to Feel Like This? The Prize Winner This is a picture of the only man in the world who has never read a copy of ye Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.2 Foreign $1.40), Send Lire for three months 12 Issues—to Open only to new subscribers scriptions renewed at this rate. 183. LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York Que Year, $5.00. (Canadian, $5.80; Foreign, $6.60. comicbooks.com