Life, 1923-05-24 · page 7 of 42
Life — May 24, 1923 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical humor pieces and a cartoon. The top shows "The Daily Leap into Newspaper Fame"—four caricatured portraits of people who reportedly gained sudden newspaper attention, including Rev. John B. Snueck (a town divider), Miss Jessie "Bump" of Iowa (a Scituate Water Carnival prize winner), and Carl Schastopol (a Great Neck resident who donated $150,000). Below are three humorous anecdotes: a woman who retrieved pearl earrings from a coat pocket after falsely suspecting theft; a bridge table card game where the Taylors doubled and exceeded expectations; and commentary on a failed theatrical production. The main illustration depicts a "kind old lady" attempting to stop fighting boys, while a "small bystander" claims credit for starting the conflict—satirizing misplaced responsibility and adults' ineffective interventions in street disputes.
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The Daily Leap into Newspaper Fame Rey. John B, Squeek, who has divided the town of’ Bayvi into two hostile camps of cism by refusing to marry B, Good, a highly respected girl, to a bootlegger. Life’s Surprises HILE riding in the bus, Mrs.’ Bond was __ pushed against by a rough-looking man. She thought nothing of it till she reached her home and suddenly re- membered that in her coat pocket she had placed her pearls after hav- ing had them repaired. In terror she searched hurriedly. The pearls were still there. xe * At the bridge table, Mrs. Tay: lor raised her husband's bid of two nearts. They were doubled and went down two hundred. Mr. Taylor | his wife had done just the ht thing, and that he himself had overbid his hand. (Readers may obtain Mrs. Taylor’s address by sending “s. s. a.” envelope.) xk * A play failed miserably. The actors did not say the critics had spoilt all its chances by their atti- tude. They said they knew at the beginning the play was rotten. **e* very homely woman was tried in Chicago for the murder of her husband. She was acquitted. ek \ theatre patron went shakily to the box office to buy four seats for a season's hit: The man behind the grating was not called to the telephone, did not yawn, but said smilingly that he had splendid seats on an aisle, in the fifth row. But the buyer never saw the play. They told his widow later that evening it was his heart. Miss Eleanor Bump of the well known Bump family of Iowa and Scituate, Mass., who won paid $150,000 to S the all-comers’ non- prize at this y Water Carnival. George 0. Pulp, retired aire of Great Neck, 1 for an Original Raphael and donated That for the Marathon Dancers! ADY, little did I know When my heart you struck, it e- Ternally would jump and go Buckitty, buckitty, buckitty ! Not a beat will it abate, And my life ’twould sweeten Soon to read, in headlines great: NON-STOP RECORD BEATEN. F, P. A. » 1., who le and Co. ‘inting by Institute for the Blind, billion- Carl Sebastapool Sax, of Ba- yaria, a distant relative of the inventorof the Saxophone, who arrived on the Lusitania yester- dayand will lecture on Harmony and international relations, to the The Lump Sum Y means of a new device, cube sugar may now be packed in boxes without being touched by human hands. The touch, however, comes later. Carr: Yes, Martin is an indefati- gable worker. Barr: Why, I thought he be- longed to the union. Kind Old Lady: Why don’t you make those boys stop fighting? Small Bystander: Who, me? It took two weeks to get ’em started. comicbooks.com