Life, 1926-04-29 · page 39 of 42
Life — April 29, 1926 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **primarily advertisements** with two satirical pieces interspersed. The main content includes: 1. **"Orient by Canadian Pacific"** — A travel advertisement romanticizing Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Shanghai, Hong Kong) with flowery language about exotic mystery and beauty. This reflects early 20th-century Western orientalism. 2. **"The Lethal Question"** — A humorous short story about a man (Smillick) who dies after repeatedly pestering an attorney about whether he's read various literary works. The joke: when Smillick collapses dead, "three copies of Book Looks dropped from his coat" — satirizing pretentious literary culture and social one-upmanship through reading. 3. **"What You Hear When a Special Announcement Is Broadcast"** — A satirical piece mimicking radio emergency bulletins about a robbery, poking fun at the dramatic, overwrought language of radio broadcasts. 4. Various product advertisements (Scald Sweet Juice Extractor, etc.) and travel promotions round out the page. The overall tone reflects *Life* magazine's satirical approach to American culture and contemporary social pretensions.
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ORIENT qb y anadian aciiic Canadian Pacifi WEEN you've been there you'll have a strange little lantern-lit dream-world inside your head—a world of color, of queer haunting scents, of songs that begin where ours end, of queer twisty streets that lead to things you never will under- stand. . . a world of the rustle of silk, and the soul of mys- tery behind a door just closed, Japan—a gay little play- house with all the dolls alive and smiling! China—pldest and wisest and hardest to read —endless rivers and hoary walls and gardens that say everything and nothing. Miles and miles of embroid- cries and carvings and paint- ings on silk unrolled for you in the most seductive shops. .. You'll find them at Shang- hai and Hong Kong! Korea — temples perched silent like birds above the dizzy gorges—and beaches white with pounding waves. Let the West hurry on. . . it'll never catch up with what you find. 10 Days to JAPAN Then China and Manila Largest and fastest steamships on the Pacific —-4 Empresses —fort- nightly from Vancouver. Offer im al Large cities imei New York . 344 Madison Ave. Chicago . - 71 East Jackson San Francaise: Montreal . . 045669; * LIFE The Lethal Question 14) "You felt humiliated *Smillickh— “—came, though he wasn't invited backed me into a ci and ash whether I had read ‘A Gentleman with a Lustre or I hadn't, anc he—well, the Club, Smillick had read ‘Th hadn't. Ar day after that, he caught me in a restaurant, and wanted to know whether [had read a Middle Western novel—'Heifer! 1-1 And the day after that— “And the day of attorney a shuddered. n't kill Smillick! met near the Women's Lit “Have you read Kee “Disaster in Drinsk”?" he asked. ‘1 said. And then—and then I said, Have wer. He choked, stiffened up, and « read it?’ Smillick didn’t fell over dead. IT remember now that as he fell, three— “Three what?” snapped the attorney -three copies of B Looks dropped from his coat.” Literary suppleme cried Jame s attorney triump! Jameson, killed Smillick. Congratulations !” Tupper G sald. What You Hear When a Special Announcement Is Broadcast TATION is broadcasting alarm that the National was robbed within the last Six masked handits in a touring car number They are now on the ro: 1 will fig proceeding at great an desperately to. make a it is quested that thos reside on the to do all int of our listeners v to intercept these thy is endeavoring to as of Number in locati or stolen some time morning or lf any of our have which answers to the name and is with two and a will they kindly report same to Station thanks you for any you may give in for help HE CLEAN NUMB. next week—is quaranteed 1 WIT kitts | Excelsior! SCHOO ARLY ASSYRIAN TEACHER \ | S§teppi ng Sheba holds the stage, al mate sq For now as ¢ heba holds the stage own reward! What for that Char practising—if you have Juice Extractor to make Sign on Chines. When you r fruit juice in ah ¢ with the Scald Sw je grapefruit j k and mixer—casily obt p it to the pantry The Florida C Tampa, Florida OM eck here is for « ald Sweet Juice t $1.30 and § fruit comicbooks.com