Life, 1926-07-22 · page 10 of 37
Life — July 22, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon depicts members of the "Foo Young Troupe" at a Chinese restaurant reunion, having retired from vaudeville but maintaining old friendships. The "CHOP SUEY" sign and Chinese décor are period details referencing early 20th-century American Chinatown entertainment. Below, "The Sport of the Thing" is a humorous column by James Kevin McGuinness offering satirical golf advice—poking fun at golfers' pretensions and poor skills ("The worst water hazard is that at the nineteenth hole," meaning the bar). "Mrs. Pep's Diary" (dated June 28th) recounts a college class reunion and discusses endowing a memorial, likely satirizing alumni sentimentality and upper-class charitable posturing. The small illustration shows "Nubbville Spark," apparently a local character spotted riding a bicycle, suggesting small-town gossip content.
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THE FOO YUNG TROUPE HAVE RETIRED FROM VAUDEVILLE BUT THEY STILL KEEP IN TOUCH The Sport of the Thing GOOD loser gets that way through constant practice. *e # It takes a lot of championship golf to live down a hole in one. oe # The surest way to cure a slice is to develop a hook. ** # In a mixed foursome, the approach is everything. *“ * # The worst water hazard is that at the nineteenth hole. * *# @ The average caddy is foredoomed to grow up to be a cynic. ee The survivor of four divorces and three bear markets will break down over the loss of his pet driver. ee # No ball i: caddies h ever really lost until the gone home for the night. .* # The President's Trophy is the cup that jeers. James Kevin McGuinness. WITH THE OLD DAys, June Sam home this morning 28th from his class reunion and an aftermath of revelry with some of his cronies on Piggo Weedin's yacht, bringing news that Scotty Lilliman hath guaranteed to furnish all the liquor for future re- NUBBVILLE SPARK YESTERDAY MISS SLOAMY HUCKLE. PEDIA HOME FROM THE PUBLIC LIBRARY—TO PRESS SOME FLOW- ERS IN. union celebrations as long as he shall live, and may even put a clause in his will to the effect that a sum be set aside to furnish it in case of his untimely death, an endowment which many alumni_re- gard as far superior to a chair in a dead language or a bronze tablet on the side of one of the buildings, and it did call to mind my days in Smith College when I did vow that were I ever rich I should pass up the chimes, sun dials, and faculty portraits which the trustees deem proper to call to the attention of well-wishing pluto- crats, and give the girls instead cam- pus walks which would not wrench the heels from their slippers and lav- atory spigots emitting hot and cold water at the same time. Breakfast at table on large cherries and kippered herring, very fine, and then out to a millinery shop to see if a hat which I coveted last week had been sold, find- ing it still there, and, thank God, fif- teen dollars lower in price than when (Continued on page 32) comicbooks.com