Life, 1921-12-08 · page 21 of 34
Life — December 8, 1921 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a theater and entertainment guide listing Broadway shows and performances. The main cartoon at the bottom, captioned "Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry No. 15," satirizes corporate executives—specifically vice-presidents of Guaranty Trust Co.—at their annual outing. The illustration depicts well-dressed businessmen in top hats enjoying leisure activities at what appears to be a beach or seaside resort. There's a "Hot Franks" stand and a barrel labeled "Man's Nipperty's Extra Lager," suggesting working-class food and drink contrasts humorously with the executives' formal attire. The satire targets the gap between corporate elites' public dignity and their participation in ordinary recreational pursuits. The "generals of industry" are shown not in boardrooms but engaged in common amusements, poking fun at pretensions of superiority. This fits *Life*'s tradition of mocking American business culture and class distinctions of the early 1920s.
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Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verif: h papers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious Anna Christie. Vanderbilt—A mem- orable characterization by Pauline Lord in a Eugene O'Neill play of the sea and water! ront. The Bat. Morosco—More crime for your money than anywhere else in town. A Bill of Divorcement. Times Square. —Powerful drama of insanity acted with ereat understanding. The Claw. Broadhurst—Lionel Barry- more in a French play of love in politics. The Dream Maker. Empire.—To be reviewed next week. The Green Goddess. Booth. — Pic- turesque melodrama amid the Himalayas, with George Arliss doing the dirty work. The Idle Inn. Plymouth—To be re- viewed next week. Liliom. Fulton—As remarkable a play could find, and as well acted. Marie Antoinette. Playhouse—To be reviewed next week. The Man’s Name. reviewed next week. The Silver Fox. Maxine Elliott's — William Faversham and_a highly polished com| in one of Cosmo Hamilton's drawing-rooms The Straw. Greenwich Village—Re- viewed in this issue. The Varying Shore. reviewed later. The Wandering Jew. Knickerbocker. orate spectacle done in blank verse. You know what that means. as ye Republic—To be Hudson—To be Comedy and Things Like That I Thirty-Ninth St Wilfam “Hodge for those ‘who Tike his plays Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife. Claire in a bed from the French. Beware of Dogs. Rits.—Ina The Circle. Sclwyn.— Real theatre. John Drew and Mrs. Leslie Carter head the cast. _ Duley. Frazee—Satire and other things in an amusing combination. Everyday. Bijou—Reviewed in this The First Year. Little—Everybody's home-life made extremely funny. _ Golden Days. Gaiety—Helen Hayes in adolescent hokum. The Grand Duke. Lyceum —French comedy stuffed with cotton and played by Lionel Atwill. The Great Broxopp. Punch and Judy. —Reviewed in this issue. The Intimate Strangers. Henry Mil- ler—Reviewed in this issue. Just Married. Nora room farce, funny in spots. Ki-Ki, Bayes.—State. Belasco—To be reviewed later. Lilies of the Field. K/law.—Entertain- ingly kept women in a poor play. * Main Street. National—For who didn’t finish the book. Six-Cylinder Love. Sam H. Harris.— Ernest Truex in a sure-fire comedy hit about suburban automobiling. Thank You. —Evangelical but entertaining. We Girls. Forty-Eighth St—Reviewed in this issue. those Longa Eye and Ear Entertainment Bombo. Jolson's.— Nothing but Al Jolson, but that’s enough. Blossom-Time. Ambassador.—About as near real music as our musical comedy ever gets. Get Together. Hippodrome real entertainment for less money ever before. Good Morning, Dearie. Globe—An- other “Sally,” from all indications. The Music-Box Revue. Music Box.— Almost worth the price. The O’Brien Girl. Liberty—Nice and pretty. The Perfect Fool. George M. Cohan’s. —To be reviewed next week Tangerine. Casin Ju and John ard in a plez More than Sanderson sant show. INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY No. 15.—Annual outing of Vice-Presidents of Guaranty Trust Co. comicbooks.com