Life, 1926-10-21 · page 16 of 44
Life — October 21, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical pieces: **"The Misanthrope"** features a cynical letter from someone dismissing major American sporting events (Davis Cup tennis, heavyweight boxing championship) as meaningless, contrasting with their genuine passion for a local football game between Podunk and another town. **"The Perfect Sapoific"** mocks the story of Scheherazade from *One Thousand and One Nights*, suggesting her radio broadcasts saved her by boring the Sultan to sleep—satirizing the tedious nature of radio content. **"Another Success Story"** ironically celebrates someone whose verse was deemed worthless for ten years, now suddenly America's greatest songwriter—mocking sudden, undeserved literary success. The bottom cartoon, "Go-Getters," shows vagrants unable to "count over 50," likely satirizing the period's economic struggles or homelessness.
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Life Stranger: A BANKER AND He’S THE RICHEST MAN you say? Citizen: yes, 1F’8 SAVED UP HALF OF WHAT EVERYBODY IN THIS TOWN EARNED. The Perfect Soporific CHEHERAZADE was in a terrible predicament. Before her wavered the very shadow of death. Her last story was not going any too well with the Sultan and it would soon have to end. Her resourceful- ness seemed to be exhausted. The wicked gleam res suggested prison chambers s. He was waiting for her e up...to admit defeat. Sud- denly she had a brilliant inspiration. Only one thing could save her. in just as all plot in- ; ill be broadcast from the following radio studios.” And then she pro- ceeded to name the thousand and one stations from Mecea to Mogador, not omitting Fort Worth and Schenectady. She was saved again. asleep. The Sultan was sound E. L. EACHER 1 Lit. Course: Who wrote “An American Tragedy”? Lit. Srupent: Andrew Volstead. The Misanthrope DON’T care about anything. I don’t care who won the war or whether or not we get the debts collected or who won the heavyweight championship. It doesn't matter to me if the United States never does recapture the tennis title; and as for the Davis Cup, we can lose it to France or to Spain or under the chitfonier or however we please—it won't faze me in the slightest. Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen could play an ex- hibition match in my front yard and I wouldn't even go out to see which one was being thrown down and trampled on oftener by the gallery. I don’t even care whether or not they repeal the Volstead Law. I'm just not interested in the universe, that’s al!—it's a mess and not worth bothering about. But if good old Squeedunk doesn’t crash through against those low-lifes from Podunk next Saturday I’m going to howl and jump up and down and tear my hair and yell for the coach’s head and say wherein’ell is the old fight and why don’t we get a backfield and “We want a touchdown! We want a touchdown! We want a touch- down! We want re E. L. G. Another Success Story CCORDING to editors, his mawkish, sentim sickly foolish. For ten years he starved, convinced of his own ability, but unable to convince his best friends that his work was worth reading or writing. One day it occurred to him to write a popular ballad. To-day he is America’s greatest song writer. Hans Hansl. verse was insipid, al, useless, worthless, terrible, weet, sugary, inane, asinine, girlish, childish and Very Brief Essay on the Difficulty of Pleasing the Female of the Species SAN FRANCISCO woman got a divorce because her husband, a saxophone player, was away from home too many nights. NOWE OF US CAN Counr _ OVER B5- GO-GETTERS comicbooks.com