Life, 1925-10-22 · page 47 of 74
Life — October 22, 1925 — page 47: what you’re looking at
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This page collects four humorous news vignettes typical of Life's satirical approach: 1. **Prohibition Enforcement**: Mocks Treasury Department claims that Prohibition can work, depicting agents "rounding up bootleggers" as a last-ditch effort. The satire suggests government admission of defeat. 2. **"Futograph" Camera**: A fictional invention that photographs the future, humorously showing child actor Jackie Coogan as President reading a letter from "Louis XXI, King of France"—absurdist humor implying an unlikely, fantastical future. 3. **Navy Department "Halloween Pranks"**: Navy air service officers offer Secretary Wilbur a plane ride at state fairs, depicted as youthful hijinks during official business. 4. **Prince of Wales Romance**: Gossip-style satire about the Prince's supposed attention to an American woman during Caribbean travels. 5. **Hollywood Congress**: Parodies international film stars with obviously fabricated names and nationalities, mocking Hollywood's exoticism and the celebrity circus. The page exemplifies early 20th-century American satirical humor targeting government, popular culture, and current events through illustrated mockery.
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ire us es, ve st 8. ne he se ANIMATED “SCENES IN THE STREETS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Word goes out from the Treasury Department that the Govern- ment will admit that the Eighteenth . Amendment is unenforceable if the ne present dry drive fails to put a stop to al bootlegging. Federal agents sequently rounding up bootl what may prove to be the last chance at the sugar. fo day of tuo. Keep your shirt on, tne love of Pete! A“FUTOGRAPH.” Oakland man invents remarkable camera which takes pictures up to sixty into the future. The above example shows President “Jackie” Coogan in the East Room of the White House reading a letter from Louis XXI, HALLOWEEN PRANKS IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. King of France. Inset: Some of the boys in the air service offer to take Secretary Facsimile of the letter. Wilbur for a ride over se State Fairs in Maryland and irginia PRINCE OF WALES TO WED AMER- ICAN GIRL? During his visit in the Cape Verde Islands remarked by members of his suite that His Royal = Highness paid marked attention to Miss ; 7 Pansy Blotter,a prominent Salina,Kansas, | THE “INFINITE VARIETY" IN HOLLYWOOD. The recent International Congress of Motion subded. Miss Blotter also visiting Picture Stars held in the California film capital brought out a bevy of movie queens from all J the Islands at the time with her mother, rte of the world. Left to sight io the above snapshot: Miss | ‘Olea Petrovitch, the M who to have arranged the Pickford of Russia, Miss Koo-Mwat-May, Chinese screen lumina 3 F Mi introduction. ‘he Arabian star, and Miss Avai Ala, the idol of the South Seas. comicbooks.com