Life, 1925-05-07 · page 39 of 44
Life — May 7, 1925 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily a **book review section and advertisements** from what appears to be the 1920s. The main cartoon advertisement is for **Dunhill cigarettes**. It depicts a social scene where one man persuades another to try Dunhills instead of cheaper alternatives, emphasizing they're "the finest" yet cost only "a Quarter for Twenty" (25 cents for 20 cigarettes). The humor relies on **aspirational snobbery**—smoking premium cigarettes as a status symbol while maintaining they're affordable. The page also features advertisements for **Ingram's Therapeutic Shaving Cream** and **Major's Cement**, typical consumer products of the era. The book reviews list notable 1920s titles including F. Scott Fitzgerald's *The Great Gatsby* and works by Sinclair Lewis, emphasizing the era's literary culture. **No political satire** is present here—this is straightforward commercial content aimed at middle-class American readers, reflecting 1920s consumer culture and reading habits.
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Among the New Books Arrowsmith, By Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt, Brace). Step by step with a bacteriologist. The Constant Nymph. By Mar- garet Kennedy (Doubleday, Page). Something new. and splendid in the younger generation. The Painted Veil. By W. Somer- set Maugham (Doran). Wherein the woman pays almost too much. The House Without a Key. By Farl Derr Biggers (Bobbs-Merrill). Mystery on the beach at Waik The Great Gatsby. By F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner), Fantastic proot that chivalry, of a sort, is not dead. The Spring Flight. By Lee J Smits (Knopf), Another even-as I study of the great American e. A Young Man's Fancy. By John T. Melntyre (Stokes). Proving what can happen when it turns to a wax girl in_a show window. What of It? By Ring Lardner (Scribner), Characteristic magazine rticles gathered into a book, The George and the Crown. By Sheila Kaye-Smith (Dutton), More passion and struggle amongst the primi- tives of the English countryside. Power. By Arthur Stringer (Bobbs- Merrill). Lion-and-the-mouse _ stuff, with the lion scoring at_the finish, High Noon. By Crosbie Garstin (Stokes). 1f you like romance and the Eighteenth Century, here you are! Quotable Anecdotes lor Various Occasions. By D. B. Knox (Dutton). First aid to the toastmasters, shaving, leaves your skin inflamed NGRAM'S Therapeutic Shaving Cream is made particularly for you. It is more than a rapid beard softener—it prevents all after-shaving irritation and heals troublesome little cuts. It leaves your skin smooth, cool, invigor- ated and refreshed. Thousands of men have told us that it makes shaving a pleasure— no longer a job to be dreaded. If your druggist cannot supply you, send SOc. for the blue jar that contains six months of shaving comfort. Or send two cent stamp for sample. Frederick F, Ingram Co. Established 1888 638 Tenth St., Detroit, Mich. Also Windsor, Canada Made particularly for tender skins ‘No, George—I'd prefer Dunhills. I’m smoking ‘the finest’ now—and they're only a Quarter for Twenty.” _Why not Smoke the Finest?” Obedience. By Michael Sadleir (Houghton Mifflin), A novel of Eng- lish manners, with a heroine resolved to live her own life as long ago as 1860. Memoirs of Arsene Lupin. By Maurice LeBlane (Macaulay). Inside information on the great sleuth's big love affair. The Story of Woman. By W. L. George (Harper). Going ‘way back of the Garden of Eden to show how she got this way. Table Talk of G. B.S. By Archi- bald Henderson (Harper). Shaw and his biographer chat interestingly on this and that. John L, Sullivan. By R. F. Dibble (Little, Brown). The Roar of the Crowd. By James J. Corbett (Put- nam). Gentlemen, gentlemen ! Concerning the Nature of Things. By Sir William Bragg (Harper). The untechnical low-down on the atom—and also on the origin of man. A_Small Town Man. By Mary Austin (Harper). The author con- tinues her study of Christ. The Best Short Stories of 1924. Edited by Edward J. O'Bricn (Small, Maynard). Christmas comes but once a year. laying the Game. By Stanley Harris (Stokes). The manager of the Washington baseball club tells how he rose from a mine boy to the boss of the present world-beaters. Mrs, Meynell and Her Literary Generation. By Anne Kimball Tueil (Dutton). A glimpse into the circum- stances which made Alice Meynell and her work so “precious.” The Story of Irving Berlin. By Alexander Woollcott (Putnam). And a most absorbing one it is, too. Fourteen Songs from A. A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” Music by H. Fraser-Simpson (Dut- ton). Which you surely must try over on your piano. Bude A Safe One Equestrianism at the White House is still a matter of debate. Representa- tive Vinson of Kentucky, referring to Coolidge’s celebrated automatic steed, charges him with riding a hobby-horse. Other Presidents have been accused of riding the high horse, or, worse yet, of straddling the fence. comicbooks.com