Life, 1926-06-10 · page 10 of 44
Life — June 10, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **"Look Out Below"** (top): A short anecdote about a man named Slumber Jack in Consis, N.J., whose roof girders fell onto a town hall. The accompanying illustration shows the structural incident—a straightforward humorous story with no apparent political satire. **"Adamant"** (bottom): A joke about a jobless movie director refused entry to a studio without a pass. The cartoon depicts two men at a desk, with the punchline playing on the absurdity of bureaucratic gatekeeping during what appears to be economic hardship (likely 1920s-30s era, given the joblessness reference). **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** (right): A dated diary entry discussing camera film and social observations, including references to American forces at Bunker Hill and servants. The content reflects typical Life magazine satire: workplace absurdities, class dynamics, and bureaucratic humor.
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VD LIKE YOUR PERMISSION TO MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER, SIR Father (sternly) IN YOUR FAVOR? YOUR DAUGHTER, Look Out Below Adamant Jack Weasel, special « sensus, N. J, didn't get the job of h'istin out why our girders onto the ne studio gateman refused to let the fire department in without a pass.” “WHO WAS THE E MOVIE WITH LAST NIGHT, FREDDIE?” AN USHERETTE USHERING Gf > Nes Pops Diary Off early to take for devel- May coment the film of my small 17th camera, which is my latest enthusiasm, and, finding on the way down in the lift that I had not used the last ber of it, I did command the doorman to pose for me, to his great embarrassment, but no doubt he ‘¢ when he has a fine like- ness of himself to show his wife and children. Then to Steve’s stand t have my boots polished, and whilst there I did bethink me of the time when the Bannings had visiting them some English people who put their boots outside the door cach night, and how Bob and Edith, knowing full well that the servants would walk out if asked to attend to them, did collect them themselves in the night watches will re and shine them into a presentable ap- pearance,...To dine this night with the Coles, and in the talk afterwards it did develop that nobody could re- member who commanded the American forces at Bunker Hill and said, Don't fire until you see the whites of their eye not even my Samuel, who is unusually ready in such matters, and so, there being no American history about, we did telephone several of our acqua tance for the information, with no results save references to the quality of the liquor which the Coles Ibeit Chad Wayburn did suggest, He wasn't the one who left his rd he? Nor could I find out from a great Book of Facts over were serving ugh in the furrow when he he: the bugle, which [ pored, albeit it discussed such fom in Russia, the a we matters as ser weight of eggs a an’s chance: to marry, And I could not but thin yw unfortunate we were in not hav- ngst the company one of th gz men in the advertisements who hold dinner tables spellbound with th lore they have acquired from this or that set of informing books, for how he would have put to shame many ing am you whose parents had spent several thou- sand dollars on their education! May Awakened carly by great > guffaws from Sam, who 18th had telephoned the Ameri- can Historical Society for the Bunker Hill information and been referred to (Continued on page 32: comicbooks.com