Life, 1925-01-29 · page 30 of 37
Life — January 29, 1925 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **humor and advertising page** from Life magazine (an American satirical weekly). The content consists of: **Humor Pieces**: Short jokes and anecdotes reprinted from various sources (London Express, Punch, Boston Transcript, etc.), typical of Life's format. These include: - "London Love Lyrics"—a working-class romance - "Miscast"—a joke about a Broadway director's failed marriages - "The Shadow in the Fog"—satirizing insurance agents unable to assess clients in fog - "The Furniture Mover"—a medium with warehouse experience **Cartoons**: A sketch titled "Well Met" shows two men in Victorian dress; another depicts a shipwrecked elderly woman in moral outrage. **Advertisement**: The bulk of the page promotes Life magazine itself, emphasizing cheerfulness and optimism as keys to success ("Keep Your Courage High"). The page reflects Life's early-20th-century format: **light satire on social conventions, marriage, insurance, spiritualism, and class differences**, drawn from contemporary British and American sources.
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London Love Lyrics "E mayn’t be one for looks—'e ain't! In fac’, 'e'd make you want a tonic. You couldn't say as ‘e's a saint, "E drinks, and, when ‘e drinks, ‘e's chronic! But since ’e arst me to be true— No warning, mark you, not a sign— I'm proud. I don’t know what to do: "E's mine! —"Beachcomber,” in London Express. Miscast A Broadway theatrical manager who married recently for the fourth—or was it the fifth ?—time is now living alone. Asked why he and his wife had parted, he replied he had no conception of the part."—New York Evening World. TO PERC ‘ou, you WELL MET “PARDON ME, COULD YOU DIRECT ME STREET ?” Lucky PERCY STREET.” —Starr Wood's Annual (London) The Shadow in the Fog The best insurance story of the year comes from the house organ of a well known London company, and is supplie:! by one of their Scottish branches. An agent, who had been sent out to interview an applicant for a life policy, stated in his report that he had been unable to judge the present state o{ health of the individual concerned as, owing to a heavy mist, he could not tel! whether he was a tall man with a spor ran or a short man with a beard. —Sphere (London). The Furniture Mover Guest (at séance) : You certainly hay a remarkable medium. With the tips o his fingers he lifts up wardrobes, table bookcases. Hostess: Yes. It seems that befor he was a medium he worked for a stor age warehouse. ; —Le Journal Amusant (Paris). cree AM Paying Out Bank Rosser: Quick! Hand over the A TaLoRinG paper says that a man with a new suit is instinctively trusted. Ot course. If he wasn't, how would he F get the suit ?—Punch, He: Sue (relating her travels): rence I visited the Pitti Palace. Oh, did ums ?—Boston Transcript, money. And in Terririep Crerk: C-c-certainly, sir H-h-how would you like it? —Gaiety (London) Live is published every Thursday, simultancously in the United States. Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U.S Patent Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back numbers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, C., England. The foreign trade supplied trom Live's London Office, Rolls Ho Breams Buildings. London, E. C. Canadian distributor, ‘The Amer News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street,’ Montreal, Canada No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped © addressed envelope. Live does mot hold itseif responsible for the loss non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks pr to the date of issue to be ofected. RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: Keep Your Courage High, Meet the World with a Bright and Smiling Face, and read This ensures the smile, the cheery outlook that helps you to face difficulties and overcome them, and be bravely ready to surmount the next higher problems cn the road to success. The cheerful man is the ore chosen for advancement, rather than the grouch who never smiles. To make a success of it, then, try LIFE With Its Laugh on Every Page for a year, or try our Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Lire for the next ten weeks to LIFE, 598 Madison Avenue, New York One Year $5 Canadian $5.80 Foreign $6.60 (136) Shipwrecked Old Lady (in righteous indignation): AND TO THINK I ONCE ENCOURAGED YOUR SPECIES BY KEEPING A GOLD-FISH. comicbooks.com