Life, 1926-05-06 · page 48 of 52
Life — May 6, 1926 — page 48: what you’re looking at
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This page combines satirical poetry and advertisements from what appears to be the 1920s-30s era. **"A Plea for Poets"** by Amanda Hall mocks struggling poets as impoverished, disheveled figures—knees "loose at the socket," nothing in their pockets but rhymes. The poem satirizes their pretentious creative process (eating unripe fruit and calling it "metaphor," trimming sonnets with "pale ribbons"). The satirical point: poets are pitiful, broke dreamers deserving pity, not respect. **"Fairy Story"** is a brief joke about a broker's wife who, told she can reach him at "the Chummy Cabaret," realizes he's using an excuse to go out drinking rather than work. **The final joke** plays on Prohibition-era hypocrisy: a bonded warehouse's "alcohol are soon parted"—meaning customers steal it, contradicting the supposed security of bonded storage. The remaining content is straightforward advertising for Canadian Pacific Hotels, Dunhill cigarettes, Old Town Canoes, and the Winton Hotel in Cleveland.
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LIFE SADDLE UP! CLIMB WAY UP! ‘OU need a holiday with mountains—gla- ciers—horses —real people — real food and eceans of pep due to clear air, cold water, hard exercise and sky-high altitude. 9 Bungalow Camps for people who want to take these mountains without frills —or hotel prices, Some people take them in tum, some outfit with guides for long trips, some join the Trail Riders of the Rockies, .... Why not try this holiday that has no hangover? Send for Bungalow Camp Booklet. For information and rates, mention B.C.—6. CANADIAN PACIFIC Hotel Department Montreal ¢ local Canadisa Paciéc Odices When the finest cost but a quarter for twenty— ‘Why not Smoke the Finest ¢ HR SPINE OF war A Plea for Poets perky, 1 with an arching spine, IS knees crossed thin A In hicroglyphics jerky The poet pens his line His eyeballs with their lustre Are shaded by a frown In urgency to muster An adjective and noun! plucking from an unripe tree He's eaten to the core, Alas, how A iruit callec indigestibly, “metaphor Or trimmed the fretful sonnet milliners devise Pale ribbons for a bonnet OF arbitrary: size With knees loose at the socket, Shabby and_ sublime, And nothing in his pocket To jingle but his rhyme the all men friends, Most luckless ¢ (Although he And read him now and then! Amanda Hall Oh, pity, poet, may not know it) For Bigger and Better Commencements ion Day Topics for Gradw Iddresses That Will Keep Boys Awake “AJIGHT Club Dancing and Enter taining.” Seenes in a Bond Behind — the narios and How to Write Them.” Has the Saxophone a Future “What Makes a Song Hit?” “How to Break Into the Newspaper Game.” “Poetry for Pay.” How to Get Names on Dotted Lines.” “How to Sell Short Stories.” New York (a) on 1 Low Salary, “How to Live a Hi » (bh) (ey at All.” “Advertising Copy-Writing as a Step the Drama.” J at a Beach a “Isa Li Pro. fessional \ McCready Huston, Fairy Story E got a lot of work to do at the fice to-night and won't be home for dinner,” said the broker to his wife over the “Ii you need me for anythi at the Chummy Caba HE Prince of Wales seldom laughs in public, In other announces a correspond ent words, he seldom laughs, A canoe of outstanding beauty But, Ol Town Canoe” the b . Rracetu he water “Old Town Canoes Ovo Te ddle Street, Old Town, Maine ‘Old Town Canoes BONDED warehouse and its al hol are soon parted. Your home in CLEVELAND Your home there, to be perfect, should be in the center of theatre, shopping, and business districts. It should be onall the main motor routes, and have com- plete garage facilities too. It should have a popular-priced Coffee Shop served by the same kitchen as the luxurious main dining room, It should have 600 large, outside rooms, all with bath. Its rates should be from three dollars, The service goes with- out saying. We mean the Winton, of course. J.L. Free, President W. Smiues Koons Managing Director HOTEL WINTON Cleveland PROSPECT AT NINTH comicbooks.com