Life, 1926-10-14 · page 16 of 44
Life — October 14, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine features a cartoon titled "The Gay Nineties" depicting two women at a "Family Entrance" doorway. The accompanying text satirizes a specific social practice: during the 1890s, women could enter certain establishments (likely saloons or theaters) through separate "family entrances" to avoid the stigma of being seen entering through the main entrance where less reputable activities occurred. The joke critiques this hypocrisy—the caption notes these entrances allowed "the fair sex" to offset moral disapproval while husbands engaged in questionable behavior. The cartoon mocks the pretense that separate entrances provided respectability when everyone knew what was actually happening inside. The "Hollywoodiana" section below contains brief Hollywood gossip items unrelated to the main cartoon.
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‘G TIE GROWLER.” ) THIS INCONSPICUOUS PORTAL OF CHE r. U.'S AND OVERRASH INDIVIDUALS WHO—IN AN UNGUARDED MOMED 4AMOUS Peruvian director se- ke Epic of the great North woods... . Minnie, the wonder gazelle, signed up for new long- term contract....Five thousand ac- tors starving to death in Hollywood. ...Magnificent Pictures Corp. brings over boatload of Finnish ac- tor: High-priced scenario writer unable to read or write....Lavish The Gay Nineties THE DOORWAY WITH THE HOMEY TITLE, UP EVERY SIDE STREET IN TIE f THE PAIR SEX COULD OFFSET A HARD DAY’S WASHING BY (“A PINT OF DARK, GUS, AND NOT TOO MUCH COLLAR TIUIS ALSO A BOON TO HUSBANDS OF T—HIAD SWORN OFF, Hollywoodiana Productions, Inc., fails for billion dolla -Noted Zulu director elopes with twelve-year-old | saxo- phone player....Prospects never better, says president of Lavish Pro- ductions, Inc....Film star breaks fingernail in horrible auto crash... . Trained duck paid thousand dollars a week....Famous Javanese boiler- maker signed up to write original “LIVE-AND- screen stories....American author dies in garret. .. .Film star divorces seventh husband to marry bull fovies in their well-known channel- berian director builds thirt dog-house in Beverly Hills... . Film star has family mausoleum equipped with expensive radio set. Robert Lord. comicbooks.com