Life, 1923-07-19 · page 31 of 36
Life — July 19, 1923 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **multiple advertisements and brief satirical content**, not political cartooning. The main items are: 1. **"Broadcastings" section**: Reader letters complaining about textbook monopolies at Amherst College and rude theater staff behavior. 2. **"Appreciation" dialogue**: A Gibson Instruments ad disguised as a joke about a husband refusing to buy his wife jewelry because it's "not good enough." 3. **"Values" scene**: A satirical hotel-lobby conversation mocking convention-town price gouging. Guests complain about 20-cent coffee, $8 hotel rooms, $1.50 taxi rides, and $16 bootleg liquor—all inflated convention prices. The joke critiques both greedy local merchants and tourists' resigned acceptance of exploitation. 4. **Advertisements**: Hood-Dye shock absorbers, Gibson musical instruments, and Bellans indigestion remedy dominate the page. The "Values" dialogue is the page's only genuine satirical content, reflecting early 1920s convention-economy complaints.
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Broadcastings (Continued from page 10) Amherst students buy all their text books from Ginn & Co.? If so, the way we figure it is that the wrong ent has resigned, and oblige Yours truly, ELennocen & DreyFuss. Pe presid Tur behavior of certain ticket sellers is nicely adjusted to the suc- cess of the play. If it is only a moder- ate success they are moderately polite. A failure, on the other hand, will make them quite obsequious, whereas if the play is a huge success, no traffic ceman could be rougher with the driver of an imitation yellow taxicab than some house treasurers have been with me. To accord with this state of affairs, it has been suggested that the well-known item in the program be changed to read as follows: ."eliy inattention or discour the part of an employee will positively be refused at the door. Appreciation Brive (looking in elry store): George, I'd love to have that bracelet. Huspanp: I can't afford to buy it for you, dear. Tir Brive: But if you could, you would, wouldn't. yor Tue Huspanp: I'm afraid not. Tue Brine: Why? Tne Huspanp: It isn’t good enough, dear. Tue Brive: Oh, you darling! Gibson Good Times ibson instruments, the “Musi Pals of the Nation” easily and quickly b ‘the music of the day. Deligt , increase popular- ity, income and pleasire playing for soe- affairs, concerts, entertainm is ‘you year round ‘Sgnised world standard.” Guaranteed fos ifs Easy to Play ‘hsstruments Easy to Pay Liberal allowance on old instrument im exchange for a Gibson Guitar Hamid senio ‘Tenor- HOW MANY PERSONS WILL READ | THIS COPY OF LIFE? 'HE hydraulic power of Niagara is the force of moving liquid under restraint. That’s Standard Equipment in Europe Alda Aries The Austin Motor Co.,, Ltd. le Baztlaire Chenard & Walker lelage Delaunay-Belleville Delahaye D.F.P. Farman |G. Irat La Colombe M Ss Slim s ~yueville & Hoyau ts WoiseleyMotoraLtd. And in America Pierce-Arrows the principle by which the Hoo-Dye Shock Ab- evs POSAS Mercers Packards sorber bringstheultimateinridingcomfort toyour while’ many Studebaters thousands, Hudsons car—confined glycerine escaping from chamber to een applied to Buicks chamber in direct proportion to the amount of Locomobites the shock to be absorbed. The Hoo-Dye absorbs both the shock and the recoil, and, graduating its control from the slight Cadillacs and many es. other ma THE HOUDAILLE Co. 1418 West Ave., Buffalo,N.Y, Houde Eng. Corp. Mfr's For your own health’s sake, send fora copy of “How Motor bump at low speed to the heavy road at high Shocks Affect the Nervous System”, va KendrickSmith, speed, it has brought a new era of comfort to M.D.D. motorists by wiping out road fatigue. HOO-DYE Shock Absorbers Send for this Book Values (The scene is a hotel lobby during a convention.) “"S An outrage. Twenty cents for a cup of coffee!” “Outrage is right. You know what my room set me back? Eight dollars, and it’s right next to the freight ele- vator.”” “The nerve of the people in th's town’s something awful, Everywhere you go they got these signs: ‘Wel- come, A. S. D. F. H. of G.’—then they gyp you every time you turn around.” “You said it. Dollar and a half to go around the block in a taxi.” “Ought to be a law about it. Give ‘em a bawling out in the newspapers, anyway.” “Sure ought to. C’mon up to the room. Got something there.” “That so? Where'd you get it?” “Bellboy. Sixteen dollars. Pretty high, but you got to expect that with the town full of people like it is.” “Sure, ’s fair enough. Sixteen dol- lars ain’t bad.” S._.K. THE MARATHON “YOUNG MAN, WON'T YOU PUT THIS THE MAIL-BOX FOR M —Klods-Hans (Copenhagen). Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION BELLANS mess 6 BELLANS =| Hot water a Sure Relief ELL-ANS 25¢ ano 75¢ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE comicbooks.com