Life, 1924-12-04 · page 64 of 72
Life — December 4, 1924 — page 64: what you’re looking at
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This page combines advertising, theater reviews, and satirical commentary typical of Life magazine's format. **Main Content:** The "Great White Fleet" advertisement (left) promotes luxury Caribbean cruises by the United Fruit Company, emphasizing first-class service and tropical travel. **The Satire:** "Why I Hate Christmas" mocks commercialized Christmas culture. The author ridicules tired holiday clichés: sentimental newspaper reprints (referencing the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial), Dickens references ("Tiny Tim"), greeting card obligations, and forced family sentiment ("the glint of the stiletto in every remark"—suggesting underlying family tension). The piece satirizes how civic organizations (Lions, Kiwanis, Rotary) publicize charitable acts, department store nostalgia, and awkward office mistletoe moments with middle-aged women. **Context:** This reflects 1920s cynicism about commercialized holidays and suggests Life's audience appreciated irreverent social commentary alongside theater listings and luxury advertising.
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LIFE - Wire FLEET O CRUISES to the West Indies— or elsewhere—offer so much in shore excursions, hotel accommoda- tions and genuine hospitable treat- ment, afloat and ashore, as those of the Great White Fleet. On these magnificent steamships, specially built for tropical travel, every passenger is a guest, with all the consideration and privileges ac- corded honored guests. Food, service and amusements — which means everything from auto trips to deck sports—are of the un-. varying high quality which has made Great White Fleet cruises known the world over as the final word in luxu- rious travel. Remember that the United Fruit Company carries only first class pas- sengers on all its ships, and this un- varying policy makes easier the well established rule that every passenger is a guest. —and the fact that we do not send out casual cruises to the Tropics aids us in maintaining our wonderful serv- ice, for twice a week, every week in the year, Great White Fleet ships sail from New York and New Orleans, You can enjoy our cruisesin June or December, or in any month of the year, for there is alwaysa Great White Fleet ship to bear you southward. Address Passenger Department UNITED FRUIT COMPANY Room 1634, 17 Battery Place, N.Y. Confidential Drama Guide (Continued from page 50) Minick. Bijou—An American com- edy of genuine material, with O. P. Heggie. New Brooms. viewed later. Peter Pan. Knickerbocker—Marilyn Miller in a revival of Barrie's chef dauvre, Pigs. Litthk—A good clean evening's entertainment. The Show-Off. Playhouse—As good as you'll find anywhere. Better. The Way of the World. Cherry Lane—To be reviewed later. Fulton —To be re- Eye and Ear Entertainment Annie Dear. Times Square—An elaborate musical version of “Good Gracious, Annabelle,” with Billie Burke and Ernest Truex. Artists and Models. Astor —Y know now whether or not you'd like it. Dixie to Broadway. Broadhurst— Florence Mills and her colored com- pany in something worth seeing. he Grab Bag. Globe — You all know Ed) Wynn. Greenwich Village Follies. Iin- ter Garden—Mordkin has been added to_help out. T'll Say She Is. Casino—The Marx Brothers making a bad revue into one of the funniest in town. Kid Boots. yn—Eddie Cantor and_ his success, Madame Pompadour. Martin Beck A. real score. Marjorie. Forty-Fourth St. regulation musical comedy, with beth Hines and Andrew Tombes Music Box Revue. Music Box—To be reviewed later. Ritz Revue. Rits—Good to look at. Charlotte Greenwood for comedy. Rose-Marie. /mperial — Delightful music. Scandals. Apollo—Last weeks of the best show George White ever did. Vanities. Earl Carroll—Joe Cook and_ others. Ziegfeld Follies. New Amsterdam —Just about the same, including Will Rogers, thank Heaven. Why I Hate Christmas LAYFUL paragraphs in the public prints about sky-blue suspenders for Father....Reprints of the Virginia O'Hanlon editorial from the New York Sun in obscure newspaper: Lisquo- tations of Tiny Tim....Blah about a white Christmas....Loving family re- unions with the glint of the stiletto in every remark....Statistics about how many kiddies the Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary are going to make happy, illus- trated with half-tones of the presiding officers....Domestic reproaches for not checking every greeting card and shoot- ing one back....English country life cuts in the department store advertise- ments....Carols by the Community Club....Kittenish comments on the presence of mistletoe by middle-aged fat women. McC. H. ILLIE: See that kid there? Born on Christmas, he was. Jimmie: Gee! What's the trouble For the Best of Christmas Gifts— Tus Christmas give all your friends “Ole Missus” Fruit Cake—The Gitt of Perfect Taste—thoughtfully chosen by you but without the usual shopping bother. Made in Dixie, by southern cooks, from Lucy Thompson's recipe, ot citron from Spain, cherries from France, pineapple from Hawaii, nuts from Italy, and many other good things, it comes 0 you (or to whomever you wish) rich aud pure in its handsome metal container Let us lift the Christmas gift burden from your shoulders. Send us a list of yo: friends, enclose $2.50 foreach two-po cake and $6.00 for each five-pound cake and we'll do the rest. — Prices include carrying charges. NATCHEZ BAKING COMPANY Natchez Department D Mississippi Letting Reedsdale Smokers Tell It rom Wasnincton, D. C.: ‘They I certainly exceeded all claims ma for them. I have smoked cigarett nearly fifteen years, and until today have been searching for a permanent brand, but now my search is over. “Tbe package is not to be improv: upon, furnishing, as it docs, unbroker cigarettes in ‘short order.’ It will be privilege to recommend your cigarettes. (Original letters in our file) Reedadale Cigarettes are 20c for twenty! The are put up in a new and specially designed pack age that keeps them fresh, unbroken and un crushed to the last one If not at your d: a carton of ages(100cigarettes sent for a dollar. Smoke on package. If no satisfi rem packages an. et your mone ack. Reed Tobacco Co., 128 So. 21st St., Richmond, Va. KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIP Takes out of the smoke 19% Nicotin, 85% Pyriiin. 33% Ammoniac. $5.00. Literature free. | Kepler & Ce, tnc., $44 26th St, Guttenberg, West New York, ¥. b 2%. Earn Xmas Money motes Chrie ‘Sell for 20¢ » vat. 60 and keep $2-00-, Wo Work--Just Tun- Glenwood General Offices, 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass. 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