Life, 1923-05-03 · page 11 of 40
Life — May 3, 1923 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Song"** by Dorothy Parker—a poem about romantic disappointment, where a lover gave material luxuries but no genuine affection. 2. **"Ho for the Mountains!"**—A cartoon showing a bear complaining it wishes it could afford "some nice quiet Zoo" instead of the mountains, satirizing the tourist invasion of natural spaces. 3. **"The Exposure" and "Mutual"**—Two brief joke items. The first mocks a husband buying himself a diamond shirt stud (suggesting emasculated consumerism). The second references a New Jersey law about actors resenting mutual sentiments. 4. **Bottom cartoon**—Shows two women at a mirror with a friend's critique about artificial pearls versus "real" ones, satirizing superficial materialism and vanity among society women. The page's recurring theme: critiquing 1920s consumer culture and shallow values.
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Song F'D_ have lands, H es of marble, and billowing given me_ rolling tarms, . to trickle between my hands, dering rubies, to circle my arms. You—you'd only a lilting song, Only a melody, happy and high, You were sudden and swift and strong,— Never a thought for another had I. He'd have given me laces rare, Dresses that glimmered with sil- very sheen, Shining ribbons to wrap my hair, Horses to draw me, as fine as a queen, You—you'd only to whistle low, Gaily I followed wherever you led. T took you, and I let him go,— Somebody ought to examine my read ! Dorothy Parker. Ho for the Mountains! The Bear: Dear me! I wish I could afford to spend the summer in some nice quiet Zoo. The Exposure Doctor: How did your husband take pneumonia? Dovey Dawson: bought hisself a stud! Doctah, he diamond _ shirt Mutual A New Jersey law declares that actors are just like anybody else. This probably will be wrathfully re- sented not only by the actors but by everybody else, Zw The Friend (judicially): Not quite so much lip-stick, I should say, my dear. Too much seems as artificial as—as—well, as artificial as a string of real pearls. comicbooks.com