Life, 1926-05-13 · page 12 of 52
Life — May 13, 1926 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page features a satirical cartoon titled "The Man Who Is Trying to Get a Grand Piano with Tobacco Coupons." The cartoon depicts a cluttered interior where a man surrounded by accumulated tobacco coupons and boxes attempts to redeem them for a grand piano—an absurdly ambitious goal. The satire mocks the tobacco industry's coupon-redemption marketing schemes, which promised valuable prizes in exchange for collected coupons. The cartoon suggests the ridiculousness of expecting to obtain an expensive luxury item like a grand piano through such programs. It's commentary on consumer culture and misleading advertising tactics common in 1920s America, when tobacco companies aggressively promoted their products through elaborate redemption offers.
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Lines OST unpatriotic and perverse of all American citi- zens was the fellow who, on May 1, No Accidents Day, insisted on cutting his chin with the safety razor AL “A bottle of wine every table” is the slogan of a European tion of grape growers. In the United States we substitute the word “under” for “on.” +L First among the claimants so far for the 1926 Candor Prize is Heren Lex Wortiixc, who in a legal paper sets forth that she is “a motion picture actress...and her live- m the exhibition of her face and Exit Art, humiliated JL sousness goes to Mrs, Erna UnkeL- lihood is derived fre features to the p The Award for Inge Bach, whose husband was identified with the recently arrested Whittemore “LT did not know my husband 1 the police. “He gave me lots of money, but I thought he made it running whisky.” aL The Filipinos, wise or otherwise, gang. was a criminal, are growing more insistent daily in demands for liberty But how can we give them something we haven't g aL “When a New Yorker says ‘beer’ he means draught beer. Draught beer, drawn from . is not a parlor ik. Such beer needs a bar, a back drain’ for the Congressman York. >I bartender. William S. Bennet of N One important detail appears to have been overlooked by the Congressman, namely, that when a New Yorker says “beer” he usually gets it. a At a recent sale of old armor in Lon- don the principal buyers were Ameri cans, and Londoners are more than a little surprised at this. They evidently don't realize what it means to be a LAF E. * F | ya)! ‘ dom = An | { Bruce Bairnsfather [7's & pleasure and a privilege to announce the return to Lire of Bruce Bairnsfather, the British cartoonist who created Old Bill, Bert and Alf—those sturdy, comic, pathetic, with the “Old Con e to make the deathless mmies who went ot temptible world laugh. There is much acrimc as to who won "in 1914 and remained in Fr; Allies he war—but there can be no doubt that it was Bruce Bairnsfather, more than a nus debate among the yy one man, who made it endurable. He provided a gleam of humor and sanity in a world that was dark with barbarism, Vhat Pri time cartoons Mr. Bairnsfather i American life will appear, appropriately enough, in this publication The spirit of > Glory?” was evident in every one of his war- now in America, and his observations N ICE: I have not kissed a man for a month, Vircinta: Is that a boast o' a confessic — taf ITLL My pedestrian over here. aL An Italian dramatist sa of the s “the theatre future will present abstract forces in mechanical rites, and thus do without actors.” In our country the institution described is called a Num- ber 2 Company. -L Contrary to prevailing opinion, the In- ternational Dog Carnival, scheduled for the middle of May at the Polo Grounds, is not a Charleston contest. comicbooks.com