Life, 1926-03-04 · page 37 of 40
Life — March 4, 1926 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily contains **advertisements and literary content** rather than political cartoons. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** - Hohner Harmonica instruction book (top left) - Cortiez Cigars (bottom left) **Editorial/Literary Content:** - A poem reviewing Du Bose Heyward's novel *Porgy* (which would later inspire the opera *Porgy and Bess*)—the review sympathetically portrays Charleston's Black community and critiques racial inequality - "Irrelevant Questions" column—satire about famous men constantly pestered by the public with trivial inquiries - "Lie" column—brief commentary on how liquor arrests are sensationalized - "From a Club Chair"—short observations about post-WWI cultural trends - Charles Addison Parker's solicitation for writers The *Porgy* review is the most substantive content, presenting sympathetic (if paternalistic by modern standards) treatment of Black life and pointing out systemic disadvantages.
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LIFE Now Anyone Can Piay a Honner Harmonica This FREE Book Will Prove It! Thousands of people of all ages, in all walks of life, are now playing Hohner Harmoni- cas for entertain- ment, education and inspiration. Thanks tothe new instruction book they are enjoying the popularit comes to th who can play this fascinating musi- cal instrument. \ yr mann tne eayntare | If there is any greater satisfaction than listening to good music, itis surely that of being able to play it. This Free In- struction Book, containing charts, pic- tures and popular musical selections, prising. Ask your dealer for a copy t: day; if he cannot supply you, write di- rect to M. Hohner, Inc., Dept. 223, 114 East 16th Street, New York City. Leading Dealers Everywhere Sell Hohner Harmonicas 50¢ up. nity in this vor and irrelevant questions are two them. They are the bane of my ex- istence. All great men are troubled with them. Edison is the target of thousands of inquiries as to how he attained s and fame; Ford is asked y he doesn’t build a six-lung lizzie; € is quizzed as to why he doesn't come eternally being repeatedly _ bein! for disarmament ; Jack Dempsey has te tell a hundred reporters a day when he expects to resume fighting, and so on, ad infinitum none_of ‘em has on me nt clerk at a J. FH. see, I am the st hotel Lie Some day a United States Attorney 7 is going to make a liquor a st without describing it as the b “up of the biggest bootleg ring in the country. EN OF BRAINS Caars |-MADE.AT KEY WEST— Rhymed Reviews Porgy By Du Bose Heyward Ceo. H. Doran Co, OAL-BLACK, grim-visaged Porgy, free Of lovely Charleston's Negro quarter, Had legs too frail to let him be A stevedore or Pullman porter He built himself a soap-box cart, Attached a goat for transportation And, drawn in state through street and mart, Pursued the mendicant's vocation With Porgy lived the vagrant By dissipation scarred and t to him in deep distress Crown, her fled red- handed anded ; lover, When outlawed Crown stole back by heltering swamps whenc om drew him € pas. is heart's delight, Porgy knifed and slew The deed was hid, the doer safe, His soul t whether,” Bess, that he 1 have dwelt in peace to unvexed — by nest waif ued and drugged her: nothing mattered, ht in I 's entangling mesh, poo By, shattered. bowed and Their road is not the White Man's road They fetter, But keep their fear and shun his law and own half-savage code While on the way to something better uld they rise wild and way And how much faster w These children, joy ward, If more of us could sympat And understand like Mr Heyward. Arthur Guiterman. From a Club Chair Wille statesmen have been busy signing the treaties win the last war, another generation of b bands has had time to grow see They say we are developing a na- tional appreciation of art; I shall be ready to. assent sculptor. is se commit- ntry club, when a elected chairman of the he tee of some important ec cee The perfect Ancient is one who is not too conservative to overbid his hand occasionally. JK. M. Dear Customers: If you are kind enough to think there’s any- thing in our: a) Freelance, (6) Wanted by the Dear Public, c) For Share, a) If I were the Charles Addison Parker of Nursery | Rhymery.... (e) The First Twenty Words, which would help some- jone to have a little more faith i in Life. ..and in the | power of courageous writ- ing...it would give me real pleasure to place that |someone on our mailing list. You know, there are lever so many clever men and women who can do writing of this expansive sort...and who would love to do it!...if they could once know, for sure, how successful it is. Charles Addison Parker Writer of Advertising Copy, 565 Fifth Ave., New York comicbooks.com