Life, 1926-08-19 · page 34 of 37
Life — August 19, 1926 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The cartoon at top depicts a flirtatious exchange—a woman claims she learned something "all by herself," attributing it to a French source. It's a mild innuendo joke about self-education. The bulk of the page contains **product advertisements** (Resinol skin cream, Barbasol shaving cream, Cortez cigars, Forhan's toothpaste) and a **literary review section** discussing novels including "Mannequin" (which won a Liberty magazine prize) and "Sounding Brass" by Ethel Mannin. The reviewer discusses plot summaries and writing quality in a somewhat gossipy tone typical of Life's cultural commentary. There is **no significant political cartoon or satire** on this page—it's a standard mix of consumer advertising and entertainment/literary content from the magazine's earlier 20th-century format. The page illustrates how Life balanced satire and humor with conventional magazine advertising.
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Life “AND YOU LEARNED ALL BY YOURSELF?” “YES....1 BEGAN ON MY PACE.” —Le Ruy Blas (Paris). STOP THAT ITCHING You won't have to wait—relief follows the first comforting touch of Resinol "OF BRAINS 1GARS I-MADE. AT KEY WEST—| Takes the Fight out of the Stiffest Beard Barbasol is the World's Champion beard tamer. Just spread it through the stubble and shave. No brush. No-rub in. No after-smart. Try Barbasol — 3 times — ac- cording to directions. 35c and 65c tubes. Wonderful for an burn Sf Mf V4, ay, 7 Indianapolis, <) f/ T enclose 10c. M 7 Please send triai Y/ 7 tube. For Modern Shaving ~ Life and Letters (Continued from page 20) twenty or thirty dollars to lend cheerfully when unexpected C.O.D. packages arrived. That gift of hav- ing acceptable menus on the tip of her tongue is alone worth a fortune to Miss Hurst. It surely must have won her the fifty-thousand-dollar prize which Liberty offered for the best novel by an American author and which she received for “Manne- quin” (Knopf). It should not be for- gotten, in this connection, that Lib- erty gave another prize contestant twenty-five thousand dollars for thinking up its name. The plot of “Mannequin” is sure- fire. A charming, crowing baby stolen from its parents by a moronic nursemaid; reared in the squalor of the Lower East Side, with drunken longshoremen, drugs, and empty gin bottles to thicken the atmosphere; educated through the beneficence of Settlement Houses and, after the dis- appearance of her Nana, a Girls’ Home; supported in her young womanhood by her own honest ef- forts as a salesgirl and later as a successful, but pure, mannequin; ar- rested for murder because of the apparently inexplicable death of a man who was forcing unwelcome at- tentions on her; jeopardized by her fiancé’s newspaper articles on women’s getting away with murder before the juries of this country, and finally haled—yes, you can believe it or not—before a judge who turns out to be her own father. And yet I read on to the finish. And so, I think, will you, if you can survive such locutions as “her eyes, which were blue but sort of smeared off, like rubbed crayon, into the whites” and “What if John should leave his bath water run over?” And such implications as that Tiffany glass and polychrome candlesticks are things of beauty of a Keatsian cal- ibre. The human touch covers a multitude of misconceptions. » SOUNDING BRASS,” by Ethel Mannin (Duffield), is a novel which I can recommend without res- ervation as being worthy of its mar- ket price. It is the story of the risc in the advertising game of an insig- nificant creature with a thirst for money and power who began his career by robbing his dying grand- mother of that portion of her sav- ings which he thought might not be required for burying her. The young Englishwoman who wrote it knows thoroughly that branch of the busi- ness world which she has chosen for her setting, and has attempted, with some success, to show the effects of a jazz civilization on contemporary (US TERMINAL PRINTING CORPORATION, BROOKLYN, REW YORK | Unhealthy guns denoted | | by tenderness and bleedin ie S the soil nour: ishes the tree- roots the gums nourdh the teeth. And as the tree decays f you bare the treeroots, 10 49 the teeth decay f the gums shrink downfrom the tooth-base. ‘This condition is com. mon. It is known a Pyorrhes. Four out of five people who we over forty suffer frome, Ordinary tooth pases will not prevent a. in time and used con sistently. So Fochaa's protects the tooth at the tooth base whch unprotectedby enamel, On top of this Fee: hhan's preserves gums eee sere will I vigorously support teeth. They will not loosen. Nesher wall the mouth premanre- ly flatten through re ceding gums. Further, your gums will ner ij) bleed. Gums and teeth special treatment. In 35¢ and 60e tubes at all drugs inthe Unied Sazes, Formals of R2.Porban.0.0.8, FORHAN CO. New York en's, Led ‘Montreal life. Her central figure deserves and gets no sympathy, but I should like to hear more in the future of Mich- ael Murray, his delightful foil. Baird Leonard. UGGESTED pet name for the Balkan States—The Katzenjam- mer Kids of Europe. K —nausea, dizziness and_ faintness caused by all forms of Travel Mo- tion. Seca, Train, Auto, Car or Air Travel Sickness yields promptly to Mothersill’s, 36 73. 8 $1.s0.at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill Remedy Co. Ltd. New York Paris comicbooks.com