Life, 1923-06-28 · page 15 of 37
Life — June 28, 1923 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct cartoons about London social life. **Top cartoon**: Shows a Canadian host and American guest in a library. The guest complains he "can't get any kick out of it here. It's too damned legal," suggesting Americans found British society restrictively formal or law-abiding compared to the freer American culture—likely a reference to Prohibition-era contrasts, where alcohol consumption was illegal in America but permitted in Britain. **Bottom cartoon**: Two children (Billy and Kitty) discuss the difference between a "widow" and "widower." Kitty's answer—"A widower has had more husbands"—is a joke playing on the assumption that widows remarry frequently, suggesting women (particularly wealthy or attractive ones) had multiple marriages throughout their lives. Both cartoons reflect 1920s attitudes about transatlantic cultural differences and gender/marriage assumptions.
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Recollections of a Recent London Week-end TH sugar dolls at the Grafton Galleries...Harry Tate’s mustache . . . the colored handkerchiefs in Turnbull and Asser’s . . the colossal cheese in the window of Wall’s in Jermyn Street. . .the old print shop in. Pan- ton Street . .. the herring roe sandwiches and Roederer “11 at the Cavendish Hotel . . . the second-hand book shops in the Charing Cross Road ... the scene from “Round in Fifty” at the Hippodrome, depicting Califor- nia with a backdrop of the Suwannee River . . . the brass knocker on a door in Grosvenor Mews ... the gray silk ties at Lord’s in the Burlington Arcade . . . the band at Murray’s that played “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” . ++ Miss Beatrice Lillie’s rendition of “Suzannah’s Squeaking Shoes” at the Nine O'Clock Revue... the bru- nette bar-maid at the Pavilion . . .the orchestra in the Berkeley Grill . . . the cocktails at the Café Royal . . . the jam tarts in the little restaurant around the corner from the Comedy Theatre . . . the roast golden plover at Bellomo’s . .. the search for a taxi at Knightsbridge at three o'clock in the morning . . .the coat-room bar at the Embassy Club . . . the six-shilling table d’hote at Les Lauriers ... the old man who sold violets in Ludgate Circus...the cable from home announcing the arrest of my bootlegger. HE most exciting game the year round is charging Canadian Host: WAVE ANOTHER DRINK? up things we can’t afford to have, and putting off = American Guest: NO—. 1 CAN'T GET ANY KICK OUT things we can’t afford to do without. OF IT UP HERE, IT'S TOO DAMNED L. ‘iI Sy: S Way SS SSNs AAO o, LSE SOS TS Se PANIES SSS > <= —— ps co Ee Uia~S Billy: KITTY, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WIDOW AND A WIDOWER? Kitty: A WIDOWER HAS HAD MORE HUSBANDS, comicbooks.com