Life, 1925-07-16 · page 17 of 40
Life — July 16, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main illustration depicts a horse being examined or displayed in a stable setting, with multiple figures gathered around it. The caption quotes "Billy" expressing a desire for cowboy gear to ride "that there horse as good as any cowboy." Below are three brief satirical pieces: 1. **"Making the Masterpiece"** - A dialogue mocking film production, suggesting directors fabricate scandal and artificially stage "fashionable" scenes for movies. 2. **"The Way of the World"** - A quip about the impersonal nature of commerce: buying provisions establishes a grocer as a "personal friend." 3. **"Life's Encyclopedia" entries** on patriotism (criticizing wartime profiteering) and a beach anecdote about a man repeatedly rescued by his wife. The humor targets commercialism, film industry phoniness, and wartime opportunism.
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IF I HAD SOME CHAPS AN’ HIGH-HEELED BOOTS AN’ PURS AN’ A SOMBRERO AN’ A BANDANNA, 1 BETCHA I COULD RIDE THAT THERE HORSE AS GOOD AS ANY COWBOY. Making the Masterpiece Ik OR: Have you found an unused title that com- pines sex and scandal? Autuor: Yes, sir. Director: Have you made a list of all parties connected with this super-fillum? Stenocrarner: Yes, sir. Director: Have you shot the scenes in the latest fashion slew? Puotockarner: Yes, si Director: Have you dug up those travelogue scenes of r and the news reels showing the boys marching on Fifth Avenue? Krerer or tHe Recorns: Yes, sir Director: All right. Call the company together and sce if anybody can think up a little story to make continuity for this stuff. W, L. Werner. The Way of the World UY provisions from a man for a year, or ten years, and he remains an impersonal institution known as a grocer ; ask him for an empty packing-box and he becomes your Personal friend. Lire’s Encyclopedia PATRIOTISM (Fr. patrivtisme)—Devotion to the inter- ests of one’s country. During the war one of the most popular and profitable forms of patriotism was the sale of very inferior goods to the Government at very handsome profits. Another method of expressing love of country was to work in a shipyard at $16 a day; there were also numerous men who worked for $30 a day, one day a month, in the army. These latter, however, are in disfavor because of the disturbance they created after the Armistice upon finding their old jobs filled by men who had practically won the war through the purchase of $50 Liberty bonds. The lowest form of patriotism is found in the disabled vet- erans who continue to annoy the country with pleas for financial aid. Stuart Little. At the Beach What happened to that handsome guard they used to have here? Boccs: Oh, his wife came out to be rescued so often he had to resign. OGGS SN’T Mr. Coolidge’s reluctance to $pend money an un- usual form of Federal Reserve? comicbooks.com