Life, 1925-12-10 · page 4 of 36
Life — December 10, 1925 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political commentary**. It promotes Statler Hotels' "before-breakfast hospitality" — their early morning service offerings. The illustrations show hotel staff attending to guests' morning needs: delivering wake-up calls, providing clean bathrooms, delivering newspapers, and offering breakfast options. The accompanying text emphasizes convenience features like ice water service, reading lamps, and the Statler chain's transparent pricing policy. The only signature visible is "Emoransen" (likely the illustrator), accompanying sketches of bellhops and guests. The page concludes with promotional information about Statler Hotels in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, plus the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. No political or social satire is present — this is straightforward early-20th-century hotel marketing targeting business travelers.
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LIFE Before-breakfast hospitality If there’s any time in the world when most of us need a little special consideration, it’s early in the morning. In these hotels we do all we can to get your day é started right. Rates are unusually low, in comparison with those of other first-class hotels: Single rooms are from $3 in Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis; from $3.50 in Buffalo, and from $4 in New York. Twin-bed rooms (for two) are from $5.50 in Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis; from $6.50 in Buffalo, and from $7 in New York. And remember that every room in these houses has its own private bath, circulating ice- water, and many other conveniences of equip- ment and furnishings that are unusual—such as, for instance, the bed-head reading lamp, the full-length mirror, the morning paper that is delivered to your room before you wake. +-—_—_ The voice that calls you from sleep is pleasant. Your waiting bath is clean and inviting. There’s nobody who has to be sum- moned or tipped if you want ice-water. The morning paper has been slipped under your door—and if you want to crawl back into bed with it, there’s a reading lamp at your bed-head. And that’s not all: you can’t beat the Statler breakfasts, club or 4 la carte! Pr002t Ln The Restaurants: In addition to the dining-rooms you would expect to find in a first-class hotel, each of these houses provides a cafeteria, or a lunch counter, or both. You have variety to choose from, in both service and price. That means either economy or con- venience to you often. In every € Toom, too, is postedacard on which is printed the price of that room. We believe in the policy of one price anda square deal—and there- fore mark our goods in plain figures. Boston’s Hotel Statler is building: In the Fark Square District of Boston the new Hotel Statler is building, 1300 rooms, 1300 baths —to be opened late in 1926, Adjoining the hotel is The Statler Office Building, with 200,000 sq. ft. of desirable space for offices. Hotel Buffalo—and Niagara . The newest Hotel Sider Pennsyivania Budalo-delightfuly situated ‘New York on Niagara Square. Actoss the street from it is the new ‘The largest hotel in the world —with 200 rooms, 2200 baths. Sailer Ganeea marvel of | Bu ffalo~Cleveland~Detroit~St.Louis | 23s ucsysroue and especially appreciated by tourists visiting NIAGARA FALLS, which is but 23 miles away. Theold Hotel Statler in Buffalo is now called HOTEL BUFFALO. the Pennsylvania Station. A Statler-operated hotel, with allthe comforts and conven; iences of other Statlers, and with the same policies of courteous, intelligent snd helpful service by all em: ployees. And Statler-Operated Hotel Pennsylvania~New York comicbooks.com