Life, 1922-09-07 · page 22 of 44
Life — September 7, 1922 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a miscellaneous content page from Life magazine featuring several unrelated brief items and photos, typical of the publication's format. The main items include: 1. **Mayor Hylan's beach program**: A satirical note about NYC Mayor Hylan providing beach outings for poor children, with humor about a child being punished for making faces. 2. **Royal New Year's greeting**: The British Queen's chosen design for her annual greeting card. 3. **Princeton banjo contest**: Collegiate athletes competing for the honor of wearing a banjo insignia on their jerseys—likely mocking the pretentiousness of college athletic honors. 4. **Paris dance act**: A French acrobatic dancing couple performing "Le Typhon," with satirical French phrases ("Oo-la-la! Beaucoup jazz") mocking Parisian nightlife trends. 5. **Hollywood set**: Jackie Coogan's movie set designed to resemble the Grand Canyon—satirizing Hollywood's elaborate artificiality. 6. **Women's hockey**: A brief note about female hockey athletes. The page is light, gossipy satire typical of Life's social commentary.
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WHOOP-EE! All aboard for beach- land! These lucky kiddies are but a few of the thousands who were given a day of fresh air and fun by Mayor Hylan’s Committee on Plants and Structures last Saturday. The woe- begone youngster riding inside is being punished for “making faces.” ’Mem- ber when you useter do it yourself? ROYALTY’S NEW _ YEAR'S GREETINGS; The Queen has chosen the above from the hun- dreds of designs submitted for this year's remembrance. PLINK-PLUNK! At the recent intercol- legiate banjo contest this quintette of husky Prince- ton boys walked away with the honors, thereby earning for themselves the right to wear the coveted banjo insignia on their jerseys for one year. EVEN PARIS GASPS AT THIS ONE. Take a look at this couple on the right, Mlle. Nini and Mons, Bobo, who are nightly setting “gay Paree” by the ears with their sensational acrobatic dance—Le Typhon (“The Typhoon Oo-la-la! Beaucoup jazz, n’est-ce pas? NO, DEAR READER, THIS IS NOT the Grand Cajion of the Cslored®. ny Mother Nature herself might envy the work of the scenic artists in Hollywoo = f who designed it as a setting for Jackie Coogan’s forthcoming photo-drama, ‘The WE TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO these fair athlete Bnd Old Home Town.” It was built on the Coogan lot on a scale of 5280 feet to hockey is not confined to mere man. The camera-mi ( A nd witheref the mile and is said to have cost a great deal. whistle blew. After a tight contest, the Mauves ar an C comicbooks.com