Life, 1923-06-07 · page 24 of 44
Life — June 7, 1923 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page features **Life's Picture Title Contest**, offering $1,000 in prizes for readers to submit clever captions for an untitled illustration showing a formal Victorian-era social gathering. The main cartoon depicts an elegantly dressed man and woman at what appears to be a zoo or animal enclosure, with the woman offering the man an apple. His exaggerated response—"I offered him a bite o' me apple 'n he took it a-a-a-all"—suggests the man ate the entire apple greedily in one gulp, playing on his voracious appetite or poor manners. The "A. D. 1950" wedding note below is satirical commentary on modern women's liberation, humorously contrasting a bride's shooting suit and pearl-handled automatics with a groom's "coat of mail"—suggesting women had become armed warriors while men were defensively armored. This reflects 1950s anxieties about changing gender roles post-WWII.
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LIFE’S Picture Title Contest—$1000 in Prizes LIFE This Picture Has No Title For the best titles to this picture, Lire will award prizes as follows: First Prize +.» $500 Second Prize - $300 Third Prize + $150 Fourth Prize $50 Conpit10 (Contestants are advised to read these conditions carefully, and to conform to them exactly. LIFE can- not undertake to enter into corres- pondence or to reply to inquiries.) serve tet —~ By “best” is understood that title which most cleverly and briefty de- scribes the picture above. The. contest is now open and open to everybody, and will close at this office on June 12th, at noon. Titles will be judged by three members of Lire’s Editorial Staff, and their decision will be final. Titles may be original, or may be a quotation from some well-known author. They should not exceed “I offered him a bite o’ me apple ’n he took it a-a-a-all.” twenty words each. Contestants may send in more than one title, but not more than ten to a sheet. Should we have duplicates of any of the winning answers, the full amount of the prize will be given each tying contestant. The final award will be announc- ed as early as possible after the close of the contest (allowing for completion of the final reading). Checks will be sent simultaneously with the announcement of the award. The members of Lire’s staff will not compete. All titles should be addressed to Lire’s Pic- ture Title Contest, 598 Madison Avenue, New York. Envelopes should contain nothing but the com- peting titles, typewritten (or very plainly written), using one side of paper only, with the name and ad- dress of the sender on each sheet. Answers which do not conform to these requirements will not be considered in the contest. A. D. 1950 Weppinc Note—The bride look- ed stunning in a shooting suit of steel blue and carried a lovely bunch of pearl-handled automatics. The groom wore the conventional coat of mail. comicbooks.com