Life — September 27, 1923 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Broadcastings ~ By Montague Glass E believed everything he read in the news- papers,” is supposed to be the perfect char- acterization of the average reader. But how about the man who believes everything he reads in the fifteen-cent Liberal weel lies? There is an air of infallibility about these periodicals which compels be- lief, the alternative being that if don’t believe, it's because you haven't the necessary in- telligence. Relatively ignorant men such as myself, how- ever, can apply a test which works upon the legal prin- ciple of Falsus in uno falsus in omnibus. If one of these diplomatic pundits tells me as part of my fifteen cents’ worth that I can take what he says about the Franco-German relations as the straight griffin and coming direct from the stables, so to speak, I ex- amine the context for the purpose of discovering mistakes Thus, when for the sake of analogy he makes an excursion into the field of music, about which I do know something, and he pulls a bone, as Professor Phelps would say, I receive his inside stuff about France and Germany with a certain amount of reserve. . you in his general information. The other day, one of these fifteen-cent oracles something or another, I forget what it suave as an overture to one of Puccini's operas. said now, Was as The overtures to Puccini's operas are as rare as Swiss navies AB Fao ty Second Lad) SING THE TOREADOR’S SOD and sea borders of Bohemia. “Tosca” begins with one or t abrupt measures, and the curtain is up. In “La Boh the conductor barely raises his baton, before the audic is midway in the troubles of Rodolfo and Marcello, the conclusion is forced upon us that perhaps these fiftecr cent de Blowitzes know as little about foreign relati as they do about music—or even less. * + * IFE in a California winter resort is a series of di placements whereby if the Eastern visitor rents house for five hundred a month, completely furnished, including linen and silver, A rents B's bungalow complet: furnished, including linen and silver, for two hundred month. B in his turn rents C’s bungalow, linen and si! for one hundred a month; C rents D's furnished flat fifty a month, and D either goes to live with relati or becomes an Ishmael in a Ford with a camping outf which includes neither linen nor silver. In thus takin: temporary profit on his hearth and home, the Califor landed proprietor occasionally makes a shocking ep of his Autolycan habits in the matter of linen and silver. For instance, I have rented California houses which have been furnished with linen and silver through the kind and unconscious assistance of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Pullman Company, the Palace Hotel and the Mail Steamship Company. (Continued on page 28) Pacific } MAYBE THAT WILL SCARE HIM. comicbooks.com