Life, 1925-02-26 · page 11 of 36
Life — February 26, 1925 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon satirizes the contrast between travel aspirations and reality. Two figures stand at railroad ticket windows—one in Broadway, New York and one in Broadway, Los Angeles. Each holds a ticket to the opposite city, gazing at romanticized posters: "Oh, Lovely California" and "See New York." The joke is that people are enchanted by distant places they haven't experienced, while failing to appreciate where they actually are. The cartoon mocks the common human tendency to idealize faraway locations—New Yorkers dream of California's sunshine, while Californians fantasize about New York's urban attractions—despite each location having its own merits. The title emphasizes this theme: distance literally lends enchantment to our perception.
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PRING must be here. A motorist driving in from the country re- ported seeing two robins and a new detour sign. LL Automobile manufacturers soon will announce a radical change in the con- struction of cars. They're going to put the back seat in front so Ma can drive better. =o The Senate has so far failed to ratify the Isle of Pines treaty with Cuba. which was signed by representatives of he two nations on March 2, 1904 They expect to get around to this mat- ter as soon as they have cleaned up the arduous work of awarding medals ior bravery during the Civil War. aL | then, perhaps, they will start to inravel that baffling legal tangle, the Dxen Scott case. LL E for New York’s new Cathedral ue to pour in, Thus the future John the Divine seems assured with the assistance of Jack the All- Powerful L The Cathedral is nominally being sub- scribed for by people of all creeds and iaiths—but it will probably turn out, in the end, that 51% of the stock has been cornered by Otto H. Kaun. JL Note to income tax collector: Credit Jackie Coocan with $200 additional exemption for one new brother. After all, it seems that the dog is man’s superior. When word came that he had perished as a result of his dash to Nome, Barto did not tell any news- papermen, “The report of my death is grossly exaggerated.” “DISTANCE LENDS Broapway, New York Producers of dramas may be worried by the radio menace. Not so their brethren of musical comedy, for, as one said, “thus far they have been able to broadcast neither the female ankle nor the female knee.” L A nicely balanced partnership is the Ziecrecp-Hearst theatrical arrange- ment. One glorifies the American girl, and the other prints the divorce news about her. The California Calendar \vus NZ, = =a 4, / "Great climate \ this, but some rain would (Continued on page 11) Some optimistic observers expect the Reichstag to issue an announcement on the Dawes plan in the near future. From all the signs, it will take the form of a statement that Belgium started the war. ENCHANTMENT” Broapway, Los ANGELES Mrs. Scorr Duranp, who made a fortune in the Chicago wheat pit, says she is not a gambler. “{ buy grain,” says Mrs. Durann, “because I think it will prove profitable.” This will come as an entirely new thought to specu- lators. LL The subway investigators in New York have at last made a report, and now the inhabitants of that city know ex- actly where they stand. L They do things more gracefully in England: Hersert Asguitu, con- vinced at last of his obsoleteness, has accepted an Earldom and retired to the House of Lords. Here, the best we can do for our used statesmen is the Chautauqua circuit or the Supreme Court. The real reason Asguitn has been made an Earl is to give his wife ma- terial for another book. WHEN THEY MAKE BETTER SUN. SHINE, CALIFORNIA WILL Have IT comicbooks.com