Life, 1926-10-07 · page 34 of 44
Life — October 7, 1926 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **Burberry's advertisement** (center) emphasizing style and practicality in overcoats—a major fashion statement for the 1920s well-dressed man. The accompanying essay "If Autumn Comes" by McCready Huston is a **humorous lament** about lost innocence. The author recalls enjoying early fall's simple pleasures—crisp mornings, World Series season, romantic walks to movie palaces. But now, as a family man responsible for securing four expensive box seats at football games for "socially important" events, he finds autumn stressful and longs for winter instead. The joke: **adult responsibilities destroy carefree pleasure**. Modern readers might relate to similar sentiments about how parenthood/adulthood transforms once-enjoyable seasons into sources of financial and social anxiety. The page rounds out with book reviews and cruise advertisements—typical Life magazine content from the 1920s-30s era.
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——————— SERTERRY COV RY CONS STYLE ann EASE 2 = GNASE inthe appearance of dress is 2S recognized everywhere as one mark GS of the man of affairs. Many efforts at so-called smart styles are no more in keep- ing with the ideas of the really well-dressed man than exaggerated manners or speech, But there is no reason. why ease and com- fort should not have distinctive style as well. Burberry overcoats are famous on six continents for just this happy combination —and for another one, too, equally im- portant. They combine the greatest warmth with an amazingly light weight. Dealers in every important city S in the United States and Canada. BURBERRYS LTD OF LONDON, ENGLAND For the name of your local dealer, write to New York Wholesale Office—14 East 38th St. CIO NER fonts If Autumn Comes HOW, used to enjoy the early fall! The invigorating mornings, with milk bottles rattling crisply in the alley; the warm afternoons, with just a touch of World Series in the air; the mysterious, starlit evenings, Clark’s Famous Cruises By Cunarp-Axcuior new oil burners at rates including hotels, guides, drives and fees. 121 days $1250 to $2900 ROUND THE WORLD ss “California” sailing Jan. 19 7th cruise, including Havana, Panama Canal, Los Angeles, Hilo, Honolulu, 19 days Japan and China, Manila, Java, Burma, option 17 days ‘India, Ceylon, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Riviera. Europe stop-overs. 23rd Mediterranean Cruise Jan. 29; 62 days, $600 to $1700. FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bldg., N. Y. inviting a man to walk to the New Motion Picture Palace. In those days I watched every succeeding shade of autumn color with deepening pleasure—even the color in the suits, gowns and hats which came home on approval. All was right with the world; come what may, I had the fall with its sense of man’s nearness to his fellows, espe- cially noted in the street cars. But all that was before I became the head of a family and had to worry about producing four box seats on the fifty-yard line for every socially important football game. Now I long for winter. McCready Huston. Abbott's Bitters on halt Grape Frult; fast tonic, Sample bitters by mail 23 Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. ‘Teaspoonful | a detighttul bre eta. in HE pedestrian has the right of way and all he needs is a French 75 to prove it. Among the New Books Dry Martini: A Gentleman Turns to Love. By John Thomas (Doran) The light and airy chronicle of a bon vant’ upon whom a_ twenty-year-old daughter was suddenly thrust. The Women of the Family. By Margaret Culkin Banning (Harper), The story of a tragic fate, even to the third and_fourth generations, That Last Infirmity. By Charles Brackett (John Day). The epic of a social climber done in the author's “Week-End” manner. Labels. By A. Hamilton Gibbs ( Little, Brown). Three more young English peo. ple with love affairs and readjustment problems. Lenz on Bridge. By Sidney S. Levy (Simon & Schuster). An expert player discusses the high lights of a popular game. Mohammed. By R. F. Dibble (Viking Press). A biography along “man and prophet” lines. Ann’s Crime. By R. T. M. Scott (Dutton), The White Circle. By Car- roll John Daly (Clode). The week's good news for mystery-story fans. Through Many Windows. By Helen Woodward (Harper). The candid record of a business woman who has run a wide gamut of experience. My Son John. By E. B. Dewing (Minton, Balch), For those who like to read about geniuses and their relations with women, Rip Van Winkle Goes to the Play, By Brander Matthews (Scribner). The latest papers on dramatic subjects by the oldest professional critic extant. The Art of Being Ruled. By \Vynd- ham Lewis (//arpe Modern soc: its social and political aspects examined by_an entertaining expert. Less Than Kin. By Charles Caldwell Dobie (John Day). The havoc that a wicked woman can wreak when she gives up her life to it. The Leading Lady. By Geraldine Bonner (Bobbs-Merrill), Terrible do- ings after a charity performance of “Twelfth Night” on an island off the Maine Coast. Wayfarer. By Kathleen Millay (\or- row), A novel of Greenwich Village and a Maine farm, Stepchild of the Moon. By Fulton Oursler (Harper). A frustrated poet with balked aspirations has to do what he can without the favor of the gods. The Escape from the Primitive. By Horace Carncross (Scribner) - ticing psychoanalyst applies the principles of his science to mankind as a whole Early Autumn. By Louis Bromficld (Stokes). One of our most significant American novelists adds the third panel to his American screen. BLL. FOR DANDRUFF GLOVER’S exercises an antiseptic effecton the scalp. i ulates. Write for Free Book “HowtoHave BeautifulHair and a Healthy Scalp.”” It will tell you many things you should know. Write Dept. P54 H Clay Glover Ce, tac, 118121 Fite Ave. New York comicbooks.com