Life, 1926-09-09 · page 5 of 40
Life — September 9, 1926 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content** for Statler Hotels, not satire or political commentary. The illustration shows a traveler in bed reading a newspaper, with hotel amenities highlighted nearby—depicting the comfortable weekend hotel experience Statler promises. The text emphasizes service quality and competitive pricing for weekend stays across their chain (Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Pennsylvania, New York). The signature appears to be from hotel management, underscoring their personal commitment to guest satisfaction. The sole cartoon element is modest: a simple illustration of a relaxed guest, designed to convey comfort and leisure rather than satirize anything. This is fundamentally a commercial advertisement positioned within Life magazine's pages, not editorial political or social commentary.
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he it ret LAN, when you're traveling, to spend your week-end in a Statler Hotel. For Sunday’s a pleasant day in these houses. When you wake you will find that a morning paper has been slipped under your door—just as on other days. If you want to stay in bathrobe and slippers, your breakfast will be sent up to your room. If you want to read in bed, there’s a lamp to light your paper just right. Your clean and comfortable bath-* toom is waiting for you; a desk, well supplied with stationery, is right there; the hotel’s well-selected Now Building in Boston: A new Hotel Statler is under construction in the uptown trict of Boston—to be opened late this year, with 1300 rooms, 1300 baths. And an Office Building: Adjoining the hotel will be the Statler Office Buildi 200.000 ea. ft, of highiy er-Sunday sy library awaits 7, your tele- Lo phone call for a book to match your mood. Downstairs, whenever you're ready for them, are attractive lounges, comfortable chairs. Excel- lent restaurants invite you. At cer- tain hours an orchestra plays for you. And as to service: If, in any Hotels transaction in our hotels, you get something less than the complete satisfaction we promise you, I wish you’d just remind the employee serving you of his promise to me — which is to satisfy you if he can; or, if he can’t, to turn the matter over to his superior at once. You'll get satisfaction, every time, if it’s some- one in authority. Sunday’s a pleasant day in these hotels. L7200atLin Rates are unusually low, in comparison with those of other first-class hotels: Rates are from $3} in Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis; from $3.50 in Buffalo, and from $4 in New York. For two people, these rooms are $4.50 in Cleveland and St. Louis; $5 in Detroit; $5.0 in Buffalo, and $6 in New York. Twin-bed rooms (for two) are from $5.50 in Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis; from $6.50 in Buffalo, and from $7 in New York. And remember that every room in these houses has its own private bath, circulating ice-water, and many other conveniences that are uhusual—such as, STATLER Buffalo~Cleveland~Detroit~St.Louis bie ote af \ 0. PF Ballad 43 Mik Se., Boston. for instance, the bed-head reading lamp, the full- length mirror, the morning paper that is delivered to your room before you wake. Everything sold at the ne randse—cigars, cigar” ettes, tobaccos, newspapers, etc. —is sold at pre- vailing street-store prices. You pay no more here than elsewhere. In each hotel is a cafeteria, or a lunch-counter, or both—in addition to its other excellent restau- rants, Club breakfasts—good club breakfasts—are served in all the hotels, Hotel Pennsylvania ‘New York The largest hotel in the world with 2200 rooms, 2200 baths. On Seventh Avenue, 32d to 33d Sereets, directly opposite the Pennsylvania Station. A Statler-operated hotel, with all the comforts and conven: iences of other Statlers, and with the same policies of courteous, intelligent and helpful service by all em- ployees. And. Statler-Operated Hotel Pennsylvania~New York comicbooks.com