Life, 1923-05-17 · page 12 of 46
Life — May 17, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry"** (top cartoon): A chaotic beach scene mocking wealthy industrialists at leisure, with exaggerated figures suggesting excess and lack of restraint. 2. **"Arrested Development"** (poem): Social satire about a Justice considering caging girls until age twenty-five to prevent unmarried pregnancy—mockingly proposing this as protection from "singular ill omen." 3. **"Why Night Life Is So Gay"** (anecdotes): Two New Yorkers humorously explaining their exhaustion from nightlife obligations, highlighting the social pressure to constantly entertain and be entertained. 4. **"The Dub Who Bought a Golfometer"** (comic strip): A satirical sequence showing a pretentious golfer using a device to measure his game, likely mocking new gadgetry and status-seeking among wealthy sportsmen. The page collectively satirizes wealth, social pretension, and modern leisure culture.
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Arrested Development (Justice Ford, in hearing a suit for ( annulment, declared if he had his way all girls would be shut up in N cages from the age of fifteen to i twenty-five.) H, there’s a Justice who would cage All maids, to keep them single. And, in a fine judicial rage, Forbid the sex to mingle . From fifteen years to twenty-five. (And, doubtless, in that time, they'd thrive.) ra da m th But, still, the proposition seems Of singular ill omen. Protected, so, from all their schemes, How could they learn to know men? And girls, at twenty-five, you'd find Would still possess a flapper’s mind. A. H., Jr. Why Night Life Is So Gay New York “MUST run along, I have a cus- tomer coming in from the West Saturday and I must get at least two full nights of sleep. I've been pret- ty lucky this year; have had to en- tertain only two. Got off with five nights—dinner, theatre and supper —and was sick only two days.” T Kokomo I “T must run along. I’m going to New York Friday to buy some INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY goods and unless I get two or three No. 68. Mr. Clicquot conducts the water sports at the opening of the full nights of sleep first I'll be all Clicquot Club House. in. The houses I buy from think they have to entertain me and their Overmatter Urgent people are so cordial I hate to re- Press-Room Foreman: Wot'll we Doorkeerer oF Picture Stow: fuse to go along. I’ve been lucky do with this dame’s bridal picture? So you want to see a boy inside, eh? this year, though; been entertained Cynicat Eprtor: Hold it for the Who is it? only five nights—dinner, theatre an‘ divorce proceedings. Soy (confidentially): Me! supper. I’ve made two trips and wa laid up only two days.” ar The Dub Who Bought a Golfometer “just how many “strokes you take.” comicbooks.com