Life, 1926-01-14 · page 8 of 40
Life — January 14, 1926 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Life magazine page satirizes Professor Amarzo Zogg, a character described as having enjoyed years of leisure before discovering "a formula" for something unspecified. The top cartoon mocks his triumphant expression upon finally accomplishing work after decades of idleness. The bottom section includes "The Comic Strip Shakespeare" and "Barney Google as Richard the Third"—references to a popular contemporary comic strip character. The satire appears to target both the professorial class's pretensions and popular entertainment culture. The main joke seems to be about idle intellectuals finally producing results, while the Shakespeare parody suggests mockery of adapting classical literature for mass-market comics. The specific formula and its relevance remain unclear from visible text, though context suggests social commentary on work, leisure, and cultural democratization during the Prohibition era referenced in the article.
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“cosm, WHAT A Jo!” Saved! TRIUMPHANT smile crept over years of all fun and no work, He — seven-story buildings, taxes, the Ku the haggard face of Prof. Amazaro drank Klux Klan, bank, jewel, fur and love Zogg as he gazed at the colorless liquid: Settled comfortably in the great arm thefts, Wayne B. Wheeler, and the After years of toil he had compounded chair in his library, Prof. Zogg ad- latest French Cabinet ¢ the elixir of life. Why shouldn't he be — justed his spectacles and opened the When Mrs. Zogg reached the labora- the first to benefit by his own discov- newspaper, a luxury which he had tory her husband was leani 1 the ery? One swallow would add a hun- denied himself for a decade. He read sink. His face assumed a green- dred years to his life. It had been all of Hollywood, Prohibition, the White ish hue and his brow was mottled work and no fun for fifty years while House spokesman’s opinion of the coal “Don't be alarmed, my dear,” he said he was evolving the formula; surely strike, the Florida boom, Chicago mur- “I have merely taken an emetic.” none would begrudge him a hundred ders, Charleston dancers wrecking Gerald Cosgrove. Semnr pone) me Goose.) Pum wid STA a AN GUN Away ) ‘ Gs Frum Wyant ——— Ras THE COMIC STRIP SHAKESPEARE — — — — — — — — — — — BARNEY GOOGLE AS RICHARD THE THIRD comicbooks.com