Life, 1922-03-02 · page 11 of 34
Life — March 2, 1922 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**Top Section - "The Author Is Interviewed":** A humorous poem mocking intrusive interview questions posed to writers. The accompanying illustration shows a woman author being pestered by multiple interviewers asking personal questions (about her writing habits, diet, love life, etc.). The satire targets both nosy journalists and society's obsession with celebrities' private lives. **Middle Section - "A Test":** A brief joke about generosity, playing on definitions. **Bottom Section - "The Also Rums":** Political satire on Prohibition. The text lists statistics showing alcohol consumption supposedly reduced from 20 million to 2.5 million consumers, then humorously catalogs where the "missing" 17.5 million people actually went—bootleggers, home distillers, etc. The accompanying illustration shows people drinking secretly. It mocks Prohibition's failure to eliminate drinking.
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The Author Is Interviewed OU'D like to know just how I write y My novels and my dramas, And if | do my work at night? And do | wear pajamas? And do [ eat like other men, Or k to vegetation ? You'd like to have my cast-off pen? You \ant—oh, botheration! But interviewers have to live; It isu't much for me to give. it is ‘Il be inent Do | compose on drink and dope, | but Or new-laid milk and crackers? And \ill | advertise your soap, B And yarrant your tobaccos? Of And will | let myself be met . By forty thousand ladies? ‘ines Be And will | lift a church's debt? And will | give—oh, hades ! But (hen, the public wants to know; olony i A 5 : i I'll dictate just a line or so. Do I hiclieve in love at sight? And would L fear a ghostess? And must a genius be polite. Or may he snub his hostess? And do | lead a proper life, York J Or do | sport and revel? Wet And have T ever had a wife, Or would [—oh, the devil! Ah, well, we have to stand the gaff. Of course, you want a photograph? Julict Wilbor Tompkins. rying pest nsists A Test de “Is he generous?” “Generous? I should -say he is! “That’s a very distinguished gentleman from Boston. He has just bought another Whistler.” Why, that fellow would share his last » eee aes “Well, if Fred finds it’s a good car I'll make him get me one, too.” hali-pint with anybody.” The Also Rums ROHIBITION has reduced the consumers of liquor from 20,000,- 000 to 2,500,000, according to Roy A. Haynes. A further examination ac- counts for the 17,500,000 missing brethren as follows: 6,361,427—Bootleggers. Don't dare touch it. 3,256,133—Make their own. Not bad, either. 1,154,298—Use it only when invited out to dinner. 532,541—Drink their wives’ Quelque Fleurs. 1,398,762—Dead. Wood alcohol. 1,273,329—Know how to get it if you want it. Good stuff, too. 2,424,294—Revenue officers. Part-time profession: Bootlegging. . 1,099,216—Spend vacations in Ber- “—An’ make Jimmy Brown stop tellin’ lies about me or you're goin’ to see th’ muda, Cuba, Canada, Eng. terriblest blood-curdlin’ fight ye ever saw! Amen.” land and on the Continent. comicbooks.com