Life, 1926-03-25 · page 34 of 40
Life — March 25, 1926 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct elements: **Left side: Blue-jay Corn Plaster Advertisement** A product endorsement featuring Evelyn Law, a famous Ziegfeld Follies dancer. The ad uses her celebrity status to promote a corn treatment, arguing that dancers especially need foot care since corns cause severe pain ("Spanish Inquisition in her shoe"). This is straightforward early 20th-century celebrity advertising—using a glamorous entertainer to sell a medical product. **Right side: "A Wild Time Was Had by All" (continued article)** A humorous travel narrative describing the author's African expedition, including an encounter with wild elephants and attempts to meet with a local chief. The humor relies on exaggeration and racist stereotypes (phonetic dialogue like "de bulls," "de hoozerow") common to period adventure writing. **Bottom: Dunhill Cigarettes Advertisement** A simple luxury goods ad emphasizing affordability ("a quarter for twenty"). The page reflects 1920s popular culture: celebrity endorsements, adventure narratives with problematic racial attitudes, and tobacco marketing without health warnings.
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..how they're kept ree from corns Every Law's Famous Dancing Feet ... "A corn is hardly a luxury for anybody. . . . But fora dancer it is agony. . . . It putsa ‘Spanish Inqui- sition’ in her shoe. “When I notice any suggestion of callus on the toe, I immediately apply a Blue-jay plaster. So that’s why I never have a corn.” So writes graceful and beautiful Evelyn Law, famous Ziegfeld dancer. ro Small wonder that legions of eminent dancers, screen stars and athletes consider good old Bluesjay part of their “working kit!" For over 26 years it has been vanquishing corns to the tune of tens of millions annually. . . . Bluesjay keeps fit the feet of the famous and the fore- sighted. . . . Sold at all drug stores. Blue-jay THE SAFE AND GENTLE WAY TO END A CORN The Black Flemings. Norris (Doubleday, f The life and love, if not letters, of beautiful Ga. the last daughter of the house of Flem ing, One of th ries in which the cy of a pro of affects the desti nies of all hands The Whole Story. By Bibesco (Putnam). Short. stories in the modern manner, some of which you sce and some of which you do not Show Business: By Thyra Samter w (Knopf). A novel about a is girl by a writer whose ot atirely too slender to suit me reviewed later The Lone Swallows, By Williamson (Dutton) By Kathleen } Elizabeth W Henry Pen pictures of birds, small wild animals, trees, clouds and flowers inspired by the beauty of the Devonshjr Representat Barrie (Serib open ve Plays. By er). The text The Admirable Cr “What Every Woman Knows, Twelve Pound Look,” “Dear Brutus, and “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.” With an introduction by ‘illiam Lyon Phelps. The Blind Goddess. By Arthur Train (Scribner). A romance in which criminal justice is dramatized by one who knows a good deal about it Among the New Books Topper. By Thorne Smith (Me- Bride). One of those improbable ad- venture stories peopled with amazing and ridiculous characters. The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States. By Moorfield Storey and Marcial P. Lichauco (Put- m). After all, every one should do a little light reading The Chip and the Block. By EF. M. Delafield (Harper) novel about one of those trying English men of letters written against the background of his family by one of the most inter- esting contributors to contemporary fic tion. To be reviewed later. Dollars Only. By Edward W. Bok (Scribner). Chapters by one of the world’s leading go-getters, dedicated to the theme that moncy isn’t everything. Clara Barron. By Harvey O'Higgins (Harper). The story of a young woman who cut loose from uncongenial surroundings and came to w York to make something of herself. To be reviewed later. Ochiltree Walls. By W. Irvine Cummings (McBrid A story o! Portland and_ the woods, in which, according to the jacket, every man will find something of himself and every woman something of that which she fears in all men. B a sudden and unfortunate cry of “de bulls, de bulls” understand this meant that a herd of wild ele- phants were in the vicinity and it was well to fice for safety, which we did... arose. I The following afternoon, feeling it my duty to conti my explorations, I summoned my interpreter and sv gested that other meeting be ar- ranged with N enough, the i mba-goomba. Oddly erpreter became ill at once, making evasive replies to case the effect that the chief was now “in de hoozegow” (a type of religious re treat) and I had best return to camp as fast as I “making little ones out of big ones"- whatever that meant. Consequently, as I felt I could aid the savages little enough in the circumstances—my pocket Bible having inadvertently hands during the dicing ceremony—I turned my reluctant steps back Then, too, Mrs. Livingstone, growing anxious over my absence, might well | have been conducting useless and painful 1, or I, too, would be changed | inquiries. v When the finest cost buta quarter for twenty— "Wh y not Smoke the Finest ¢ 25¢ ron TWENTY ‘TO BE HAD EVERYWHERE: % ‘ comicbooks.com A Wild Time Was Had by All (Continued from page 19)