Life, 1924-04-17 · page 16 of 40
Life — April 17, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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The main illustration depicts an elegant parlor scene where a woman sits prominently at center, surrounded by attentive visitors in what appears to be a social gathering. The caption "THE LION OF THE HOUR" suggests this woman is the current social celebrity or fashionable figure commanding attention. The satire targets high-society social dynamics—specifically how certain individuals become temporarily fashionable and attract crowds of admirers. The crowded, somewhat chaotic composition implies the superficiality of this attention-seeking behavior. Without additional context about the specific date, the identity of the "lion" remains unclear, though the cartoon mocks the transient nature of social celebrity and the fawning behavior of society circles pursuing the currently popular figure.
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Was THE LION OF THE HOUR For Future Reference SCIENTIST has said that the world is good for five thousa years more, inclusive of ordinary and tear and overhead. This is en- uraging ; perhaps before the date in- ated some lucky lad will— See a ticket purchased on the side- walk positively refused at a theatre door. See an elevator operator close the safety gate before starting his cage. Sce a man carrying a lighted cigar or cigarette on the platform of a street car fined $500 or imprisoned for one ar, or both. di ce any one at a telephone signal Central by moving the receiver hook slowly up and down a few times. See a pedestrian about to cross a New York street wait until traffic mov- ing in both directions has been entirely stopped See some one who has actually seen any one of the above. A.C. M. A., Ir. Concerning Cows OWS have such a serious look, They must be thinking But I don’t know I've seen the same look On men Mel. (O man is really successtul until his mother-in-law admits it. ih 4 Awake very betimes, in The Green Bay Tree, Louis Bromfield, the best I have in many a day. Of maki th the Deeply impressed. too, by the scene where Lily dresses up Ellen Tolliver, for methinks greater love hath no woman than this—that she cozen three Paris frocks ¢ is no end, as the ood ones are few and far between. and over to an ind she has never worn herself....My friend Marge Boot about eleven, well-nigh distrait through ena hand mirror and prat- ing much of seven years’ ill fortune, ght but chide her for eval beliefs after all did come in having bi and I could do nai ng such m r ten her Then I took her forth to buy her a preser arents had spent to ¢ e to her we went to a perfume Lord! they would not let us smell any of the imported extracts, and I do think that women, now that they are enfran- chised, should pass laws d z with such injustices, for buying a pig in a poke is naught compared with thi ‘o luncheon at an inn with Sam. and he ck Mitche has finally brought him, adding that the gutter would not be so bad a place to come to if the re ‘one id tell us where poor ports were true about the money thrown into it “A Kentucky Woman's Cook April Zook,” by Jessie Henderson Colville, arrived by the first post and I, like a fool, fell a-reading of 1 grew so hun} thereby that my frugal tray did not content me, so I did order extra viands to supplement my regular fare. But Lord! the best in the land would never make a cook of me, who am so maladroit in a kitchen that I cannot brew a pot of tea without burning a finger or two. And I y to be spared any clutch of cir- do p cumsta the preparation of my own food, being confident that a fortnight we siti of ravens,...At bridge all the af noon, gaining thirty dollars, for which T thank God, and in the evening to see “Lollipop” again, a gay show with much (Continued on page 31) nce which would force upon me comicbooks.com