Life, 1923-09-06 · page 38 of 40
Life — September 6, 1923 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily contains **advertising for the Federal School of Illustrating** (promising $200-$500/month income) and a satirical **short story titled "It Was a Splendid Picture."** The story satirizes the excessive grandeur of a newly built movie palace called the "New Paradise." A traveling salesman describes visiting a theater with a 4,000-seat capacity, featuring ornate amenities like the "Pompeian Garden," pool, art gallery, nursery, squash courts, and Turkish bath. The joke is that while waiting to see the film, he endures **endless preliminary entertainment**—an organ recital, color symphony, Russian pianist, opera orchestra, tenor singer, Greek dancers—before finally giving up and leaving before the actual movie starts. The satire mocks 1920s movie theater culture, where elaborate architectural and entertainment features became selling points rivaling the films themselves. The irony: a facility built for cinema had become so preoccupied with luxury amenities and extended entertainment that the audience never gets to see the main feature.
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