Life, 1922-03-16 · page 34 of 34
Life — March 16, 1922 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **magazine advertising and contents page**, not a political cartoon. The page announces *Metropolitan* magazine's April issue (published March 15th), featuring twelve fiction pieces by notable authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Louise Dutton. Below the main advertisement sits a small **comic sketch from the British publication *Sketch***. It depicts a reporter asking a butler named Jackson whether his lordship has died. Jackson confirms the death but notes the deceased has "nothing to say for publication"—a deadpan joke about how even death won't loosen a nobleman's tight-lipped discretion. The humor relies on British class stereotypes: the stuffy aristocrat remains formally uncommunicative even beyond the grave. The page also includes a book review of *Conn of the Coral Seas* by Beatrice Grimshaw—an adventure novel involving pearls, cannibals, and colonial exoticism typical of early 20th-century popular fiction—and a dandruff-removal advertisement for "Liquid Arvon."
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wt Metropolitan Twelve Fiction Features Three winning Short Stories which we believe compare favorably with any you can read anywhere, F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . A Southern story. Louise Dutton . . . One Night in June A boy and girl story of utmost charm. Raymond Leslie Goldman The Home of the Crying Child A fear-producing narrative. Stevensonesque Also Six Other Short Stories By Maurice Leblanc, creator of Arséne Lupin, Will Levington Comfort, Clara Beranger, H. S. Drago, Olive Ward Greene, Elinor Mordaunt. Each story is in a different field and each has the power to seize your attention and take you away from the world of everyday affairs into the region of romance. Three Fine Serials Margaret Culkins Banning Spellbinders Begins in this issue. Real life. American character story. Valentine Williams . . . . Island Gold Rapid action, fine outdoor novel. Tristram Tupper,The House of the Five Swords We believe each story in April METROPOLITAN possesses unusual merit. Every story is uncommonly well written and every story is strong in the ultimate Two for a Cent quality that makes a popular magazine, human interest. spit METROPOLITAN will be on your newsstand March 15th. Single copies, 25 cents. If you prefer to receive METROPOLITAN at your home send us $3.00 and it will be mailed you for a year. Metropolitan H. J. Whigham, Publisher 432 Fourth Ave. New York City An Easy Way to Remove Dandruff If you want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid | of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don’t. The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications should completely re- move every sign and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and feel a hundred times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store. A four- ounce bottle is usually all that is needed. The R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohle. The Reporter: There's a rumour that his Lordship has passed away. Is it correct! jackson: Quite; but I regret his rdship has nothing to say for publi- cation, Sketch (London). ‘Tue CAREY PRINTING CO. Ine, New York: =e a2, Conn of the Coral Seas By Beatrice Grimshaw. The Macmillan Co, HE longed to sail where coral grows And hungry natives welcome lodgers, And that’s the reason Deidre Rose Became the wife of Arthur Rogers— His Wife in Name;—he pledyed his word, And kept the promise, not to claim her. She roved as free as ocean’s bird In widow’s weeds that much became her. When twenty-eight, she met upon A savage island (Melanesian), The one-and-only Stephen Conn; He loved her, too, that bold Milesian, He worked a secret mine of pearls That made him most absurdly wealthy, And kept her safe from sundry churls And villains, vulgar, vile and stealthy, And yet upon a luckless day The leading villain, little Fur: By force and cunning stole away The lovely girl, and showed no mercy. But Conn pursued through ‘ungles black Where cannibals devour their quar- ry; He quickly bore the lady back And made the villain awful sorry. Then Husband Rogers kindly died Among the peril-haunted highlands, And Conn and Deidre Rose, his bride, Are bossing all that group of islands. The book is just as full of thrills And cannibals and pearls and fight ing As porcupines are full of quills; Those coral seas are plumb exciting. Arthur Guiterman. Samuet Pepys’ Diary with introduction by Richard Le Gallienne (Boni & Live right). This is one of a series of the world’s best books, quite remarkable little volumes, delightful in their appearance and typography. We should hesitate to intrust the task of cutting Pepys to anyone but Mr. Le Gallienne. But in his hands we are quite safe. A charming little book And is there any writer so good as Pepys? Certainly not! Eupocta, by Eden Phillpotts (The Mac- millan Co.). A (somewhat) _historica novel, called by the publishers “a romant of Byzantium.” Rather good. comicbooks.com