Life, 1921-06-30 · page 25 of 41
Life — June 30, 1921 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct items: **"A Little Love" (poem):** A sentimental verse by Charlotte Becker about kindness and compassion easing life's hardships. The accompanying illustration of a giraffe is decorative, not satirical. **"The Doctor" cartoon:** A domestic humor joke about a patient's wife. The doctor prescribes brandy to revive an unconscious patient, but the wife hesitates—while he's unconscious, he won't notice her drinking it herself. The satire targets both marital infidelity and Prohibition-era alcohol consumption. **"Sacrilege?" article:** Commentary on English controversy over converting the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon into a movie palace. The piece presents Shakespeare's supposed "divided" opinions using actual quotes from his plays—a clever literary joke suggesting the Bard himself would object to commercializing his legacy. The lower cartoon ("How the Rumpus Began") appears to be humorous nonsense about animals at a sports event, unrelated to other content.
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A Little Love LITTLE love, a little jest, \ little word of cheer, divest Dull days of sordid thought and care. Make sorrow easier to bear, ‘And apathy and age arrest. No doubts shall sap our courage, lest We prove unequal to Life's test, If we may only give and share A little love. And, though we journey East or West, On fortune bent or fearsome quest, We shall be strong to do and dare, ¢ discover here and there, In deed or look made manifest, \ little love Charlotte Becker. GBTewoan + AC The Doctor: AND 1F HE LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS AGAIN, GIVE HIM A TEASPOONFUL on . OF THAT BRANDY. The Patient’s Wife: WHILE HE'S UNCONSCIOUS ? SURE, DOCTOR, HE'D NEVER FoR- GIVE ME, Sacrilege? HERE has been a great deal of agita- tion in England over the fact that the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Strat ford-on-Avon is to be used as a Motion Picture Palace. Shakespeare himself, when interviewed about the matter, ap- peared to be divided in his mind: There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple,—Tempest. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king’s English. Bless thee, Bottom! art translated, —Midsummer Night's Dream, A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. Henry IV HOW THE RUMPUS BEGAN 1 ANE Maka 4 had JIMMIE MONK HAD A SORF TOF, AND MR. HIPPO, THE UMPIRE, APPOINTED LONG how The best in this kind are but shadows. GIRAFFE AS HIS BASE KUNNEK —Midsummer Night's Dream, comicbooks.com