Life, 1926-09-02 · page 5 of 41
Life — September 2, 1926 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily **advertising content**, not satire or political commentary. It's a Raymond & Whitcomb cruise advertisement for their "Carinthia" ship offering a round-the-world voyage. The page uses illustrated vignettes depicting tourist destinations and activities: passengers visiting temples in Japan, observing colonial architecture, encountering indigenous peoples in New Zealand and Java, visiting historical sites near Naples and the Mediterranean, and viewing exotic animals and markets. The illustrations reflect **early 20th-century tourist attitudes**, presenting non-Western peoples and cultures as spectacles for Western consumption. Indigenous groups are depicted in stereotypical, often condescending ways typical of 1920s travel marketing. This is a straightforward cruise advertisement targeting wealthy American travelers, departing October 1926 from New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
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The Raymond-Whitcomb Cruise ROUND THE WORLD A CRUISE pre-eminently comprehensive and at the same time notably well-balanced—including rarely-visited ports—omitting none of the essential world-cruise countries. The splendid new Cunarder “Carinthia” (one of the most popular of Raymond-Whitcomb cruisers) is conspicuous for her comfort and her luxurious equipment. The Carinthia" leaves New York. while capitalists, cooped in sky- scrapers, and old Liberty, ironically ied to her pedestal, wave “bon y come to Peking with its man-| ins and coolies, “Forbidden and shrines, and travel] further to the Great Wall, a giant serpent of masonry forty feet high jand Gfteen hundred miles fong. the boomerangand the roo, and the up-and-coming down under"? cities —Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle and Perth. Through the Red S Canal—and the travelers arrive at Cairo, for a glimpse of ancient Egypt and a journey (probably by They cross the Caribbean (after a party at Havana) and obsequiously piloted by prominent “canalists” do the gay towns of Panama, then head north, in the Pasific Ocean for Los Angeles and After Peking, Hong Kong—then the Philippines, with busy Manil and authentically idyllic Zambo- w famous Town and rice-paddy, highway and market-place arelively withcoolies, farmers and hucksters, weighted down with blue mushroom hats. Then the Mediterranean and a visit to Athens, Though battered, the Acropolis and the Parthenon are peerless, and except in comic operas there are no uniforms to rival those of the Greek soldiery. Waikiki; they cross the ridiculous 180th Meridian and spend hundreds} lof happy hours amid the gardens and geishas and the gilded temples! and gracious tea-shops of Japan.| most as numerous and tame dogs, and scenery that is superb.| On to Naples (near Pompeii and across the bay from Vesusius)— a city with a reputation of being seen capital—Seoul— place for haughty chap: with @y-trap hate and gowned in immaculately starched white linen New Zealand is a vast museum; the] travelers nce geysers and gum-trees, fjords and falls and aboriginal Maoris with villages protected by India is a country of fakirs, ena charmers, monkeys, bullocks, pe cocks. The Taj Mahal, the huge| Delhi Mosque, the Ganges at Be-| determinedly cheerful, despite the fact that whole families burst vi lently into: “Funiculit Funicula Gibraltar, Cherbourg pton—then the U.S.A, From New York, October 14—from Los Angeles, October 29—from San Francisco, October 31. Cherbourg & Southampton, March 8, 1927—with opportunity for a prolonged sojourn Abroad. Booklets—Ship-plans— Schedules of Rates ($2,250 and up) from Raymond & Whitcomb Co. 16 PARK STREET—BOSTON NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO comicbooks.com