Life, 1922-02-23 · page 34 of 34
Life — February 23, 1922 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Gibson Musical Instruments ad** (top): A straightforward product advertisement for mail-order musical instruments, emphasizing easy home learning with no prior knowledge required. Features various mandolins, guitars, and banjos at $5/month. 2. **"The Complete Telephone Liar" (right column)**: A humorous domestic sketch where a young man contradicts his fiancée Adelaide's statement to her parents that she won't visit the Macys' store. The joke plays on male-female relationship dynamics and the social awkwardness of public disagreement. 3. **"The Chance!" cartoon (lower left)**: A magic trick setup where a magician asks for a volunteer from the audience; a husband immediately offers his wife, implying he'd like her to disappear—a common marital humor trope of the era. 4. **Other minor ads** (Manor hotel, Vermouth): Standard period advertising. The page reflects 1920s social humor focused on gender relations and everyday domestic situations rather than political commentary.
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Give name and address; we will send FREE Gibson Book, 112-page catalog, free trial offerand complete information about instrument you prefer. here{ J; if you want agency, mark here[, If you are a teacher mark |. Tear out and mail today—NOW. Representatives Wanted, Men or women can make $5,Q00 or more yearly in exe clusive territory. Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company 1222 Parsons Street Kalamazoo, Michigan TT The Complete Telephone Liar (Continued from page 12) speak, touches my honor. Have I or have I not any control ovey the members of my own house. hold? Here I tell a young man Adelaide will not go over to the Macys’ to-night, and he comes right back at me by announcing THE CHANCE! The Illusionist: Will any lady in the audience enter this cabinet? I will then close the door; and when I open it again, the lady’ will have disap- eared, leaving no trace! The Haggard Little Man: My dear, won't you oblige the gentleman? —Sketch (London). 47 Ghe Albemarle Park Asheville, N.C. One of those “wholly satis- | fying” places found once in }| a while and never forgotten; yo perfect service, concentrated comfort. An “all year” re- sort for pussy and sport exclusively. Perfect Golf in a Perfect Climate. Write for Booklet “1”, Albert H. Matone, Manager. In America--An English Inn Harvard May Get a Chapel ARVARD University is consider- ing suggestions for a memorial | for three hundred and seventy-two Har- vard men who lost their lives in the world war. One suggestion is a new chapel; another is a memorial audi- torium; another is a dormitory quad- rangle and still another a group of sculpture. Maybe this is Harvard’s op- portunity to get a proper chapel. Ap- pleton Chapel, which has served its pious uses for sixty or seventy years, represents the expenditure of a good man’s good money, but had the misfor- ‘tune to be built at a time when the pub- lic taste in building was the worst ever known in any country at any time. The only good thing about it is its site. If that were taken for a new chapel two | excellent ends would be served, the new | chapel would have a good site and Ap- | pleton Chapel would be got rid of, as | every edifice should be that was built when that was. They are’all bad and it is a pious duty to eliminate them as opportunity offers. s Meanwhile another memorial of the Harvard dead is proceeding in the handsome volumes of memoirs, edited by M. A. DeW. Howe, and published by the Harvard University Press. the four volumes planned, the second, just published, contains some biogra- phies of extraordinary interest. The likeness of each soldier is printed with his story, and every story is a story of -adventure. E. S. M. “BERWALL is an eccentric chap.” “What is he doing now?” “Passing a week-end with his wife.” ‘THE CAREY PRINTING CO. Inc. New York Of | that Adelaide SAID she was go. ing. Oh, she did, did she? Well we'll see about that. Once and for all, I WILL be master in my own house. I therefore tell him with unmistakable empha: T can’t help what she said. going. Younc Man (Evidently much shaken :) Well, will you tell her I rang up? I (Rather magnanimously, | All right. Good-by. think:) I shall not attempt to discuss the I consider the Macys, whoever they may be, owe me a vote of thanks. As for Adelaide, if I know pusillanimity when I hear it over the phone, she is | much better off without him. A girl of spirit like Adelaide, who can stand up to her parents and say that she /s going to the Macys’, when what is obviou a stern father says she isn’t, would never be happy with a youth like that Finale HE never wrote a letter to the news- papers. He had no solution vehicle problem. He was early to bed and carly to rise, on time at the theatre and punctual at church. When his time came, they buried him with high honors. Which was altogether | proper. He was the Unknown Civ for the motor fitting and ian. 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