Life, 1923-01-25 · page 32 of 36
Life — January 25, 1923 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment listings**, not political satire. The left side features a **Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement** using the slogan "It's Toasted," claiming an exclusive process creates superior quality. This is straightforward product marketing. The bulk of the page reviews silent films and lists cast members for a theatrical production of *Hamlet*, featuring major actors of the era (John Drew, Jacob Ben-Ami, Lionel Barrymore, etc.). A small sidebar advertises *Cosmopolitan* magazine's February issue, featuring humorist **George Ade** examining society and family trees—likely a satirical piece about nouveau riche families or social pretension. The right side advertises **Clark's Mediterranean cruise tours**. This is a typical early 1920s magazine page mixing consumer ads with entertainment coverage—no political cartoon or significant satire present.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
““IT'STOASTED” Its toasted This one extra process gives a delightful quality that cannot be duplicated (THE SILENT DRAMA (The regular Silent Drama hesn ment will be found on page 24) Shadows. Preferred Pictures—A refreshingly original story about a Chinese laundryman who converts a Methodist town to Christianity. It is beautifully acted by Lon Chaney and others. Quincy Adams Sawyer. Metro.— An all-star cast in an all-hokum melo- drama. The comedy elements are good, but the more serious episodes are just plain awful. The Beautiful and Damned. War- ner.—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of life among the younger drinking set converted into a futile photoplay. Jack. Pathé—Harold Lloyd as_a youthful medic who doesn’t believe in medicine. He is guaranteed to cure the audience of everything except laughing pains. Broken Chains. Goldwyn—A ten- thousand-dollar prize story which now looks like the proverbial thirty cents. There are some good charac- terizations, provided by Colleen Moore and Ernest Torrence. Making a Man. Paramount.—Jack Holt is the hero of this odd comedy about_a Californian who comes to New York to find his manhood. The Toll of the Sea. Metro—A Chinese tragedy, photographed in color. It is the first color picture we have ever seen which looks real. For Review Next Week—“One Week of Love,” “His American Wife” and “Hunting Big Game in Africa.” Hamlet (See cut on page 11) Crauptius, King of Denmark Joun Drew HaMLet, ‘Son to the late, and Nephew to the present King ..Jacop Ben-AMI FortiNpRas, Prince of Norway .. ROBERT EDESON end to Hamlet LIoNEL BARRYMORE Chamberlain Davip WarFIELD Lartes, Son to Polonius .. JOHN BARRYMORE Courtiers VOLTIMAND, ... E. H. SoTHEerRN CoRNELIUS, ........ WILLIAM GILLETTE RosENCRANTZ, WILLIAM FavERSHAM GUILDENSTERN, ..WALTER HAMPDEN weeJAMES K. HACKETT Officers Henry MILLER TIS SKINNER Horatio, Potontvs, MarcELLvs, BERNARDO, Francisco, A soldier {auDE ADAMS AMLET’S FATHER Witton Lackayr Guost oF First Grave-DiccER GeorGE ARLISS Seconp Grave-DiGGER Francis WILSON Prayer Kine, ..Ropert B. MANTELL Time to Re-tire‘ Buy GertRuDE, Queen of Denmark, and Mother to Hamlet wwe LENORE ULRIC Opuetta, “Daughter to Polonius .. ETHEL BARRYMORE PLAYER QUEEN .Mrs. Fiske Court LapiEs, RA GIRLs, etc, etc.: BLANCHE Bates, Laura Hope Crews, Grace GEORGE, Mrs. Le CarTER, MarGareT AD ces Starr, JuLIA Martov ETTE Taytor, NANcE O’NEIL, Max- INE ELviorr. How can we regard with AWE a FAM- ILY TREE which has just begun to bear NUTS? GEORGE ADE examines Soci- ety-- in FEBRUARY Osmopolitan at newsstands Clark’s jae Mediterranean = Cruise FRANK C. CLARK, TIMES BUILDING, NEW YORK comicbooks.com