Life, 1926-10-21 · page 34 of 44
Life — October 21, 1926 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and charity notices**, not political cartoons. The main content includes: **Cruise Advertisement**: A large ad for S.S. Reliance Caribbean cruises via Hamburg-American Line, featuring illustrations of romantic tropical adventure ("Pleasure Pirate Pilgrimages"). **"Fair Exchange" Column**: A brief satirical piece about Ethel Barrymore's play "The Twelve Pound (Sixty Dollar) Look." The joke concerns British currency fluctuation—the play's title referenced pounds sterling, but its dollar value changed as exchange rates shifted. When the play ran years earlier, "twelve pounds" equaled thirty-two dollars eighty-four cents; now it's sixty dollars. The satire mocks the vaudeville theater's literal, awkwardly-precise advertising of the changing monetary value. **Charity Notice**: Life's Fresh Air Fund, providing country holidays for poor city children (established 39 years prior). **Product Ads**: Bayer Aspirin, Harris Tweed fabric, Mothersill's (seasickness remedy), Kemp's Balsam cough medicine. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and philanthropic causes rather than political satire.
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Lire’s Fresh Air Fund Lire’s Fars Ain Fuxo, has been tion for the past thirty-nine years, time it has expended $322,822.71 and @ happy holiday in the country to 48 city children, Twenty dollars, approximately, pays for suc g holiday for some poor child: from the ps Kind hot city. Won't you help? Contributions, which are acknowled, Lire about three weeks after th ve should be made payable to Live's F Fun, and sent to $98 Madison on *, * : : Previous, cknowledged . Fascinatingadventuresin tropical seas where Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ad the glamour and romance of the buccaneer sherite Chickering’ Bicdsioat, Gai still live. Glorious voyages, not toseek buried AG Zallis, New York. . so gold but to find joy and health. Care-free Mise OE pth Se hie days on board the ideal cruising steamer RELIANCE and shore patie excursions in lands of wonderful beauty and charm. Mrs. J. < ‘ onymous, New York Ss. S. RELIANCE Aen Svan Earley Cola dg See jemory 0 iladelphi: Sails from New York on five William J. Fitzsimons, "Jr, New ‘York “ i igri ” Wik d Tyspy E.—two lucky dogs Pleasure Pirate Pilgrimages “In loving memory of Martha I. Elms DEC.18 JAN.8 JAN. 26 FEB.26 MAR. 30 Nantucket, Mass. 1s Days 1s Days 27 Days 27 Days 15 Days Carlton C. James, 15 Day Crulses—$200 and up 27 Day Crulses—$300 and up Ale Le ang Fee The RELIANCE is unsurpassed in size and appointments for tropical cruising. Luxur- ious lounges, winter garden ball room, spa- De G Bishop, it a, Balti : ter garden 3 hews, Baltimore, Md cious decks, sunlit swimming pool, gymna- Mrs. Harry Wiess, Houston, Texa: - - 4 Mrs Re port, 3} sium and many other features. The wide : Be fire, Repford Swaic, Lockp nN t cruise experience of the management assures 2 ~ Elizabeth S. Beck, Long. ; urch of Point’ O° V unexcelled service and comfort. N.Y . Danae ee Descriptive literature sent on request Lloyd S.’ Salters,’N. E. Harbor, Me. In memory of Grace Osborn ba Proc \s a pla; ven b: rances HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE "Feller, Moire. Rewnie, Margot Mc- UNITED AMERICAN L:NES, INC., General Agents Gregor, Celeste & Wallace Wakem, 35-39 Broadway, N.Y, 177N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 131 State St., Boston Katherne © pyyvie.. Hatner, 77% oR 230 South 'ISth St., Philadelphia $74 Marbet Street, San Francisco oe ghath Moria, of Aanisquam, or Local Steamship and Tourist Agents John S. Ke |. Philadelpbia. Mrs. W, E. Lowe, New York A little boy's mother, San, Francisco Mrs. A. T. Wall, Jr., Watch Hill, Cor 5 Steve Mand Marian Bartell, Ca . Fair Exchange : VAUDEVILLE theatre in New | MS"‘Riwrence esas York recently announced, as its | eg CAE stellar attraction, “Ethel Barrymore in Barrie’s play, ‘THE TWELVE x POUND (SIXTY DOLLAR) Mes. James 0.6) a LOOK.” This was quite correct, of course, and one can not condemn the vaude- | HARRIS TWEED a s sille management for i etic b: 00. Bamipies tree « € ville m nagement for its incticulous | lengths Dy post. $2.00, per 74, Semples tr Une truthfulness in advertising. But | suppose they had been equally careful when Miss Barrymore ap- f Say “Bayer Aspirin’’ peared in this play three or four INSIST! Unless you see the years ago, before the pound ster- 3 = | | i ling had regained its traditional “Bayer Cross” on tablets you | stability. ‘The advertisements on are not getting the genuine Wednesday might have referred to - ies aaa Bayer Aspirin proved safe by | “The Twelve Pound (Thirty-two TRAIN SICKNESS millions and prescribed by phy- Dollars and Eighty-four Cents) | Mothersill’s prevents exhaustion, ” Friday, as the . dizziness and faintness of sicians for 25 years Look,” and then on Friday, as the See, Ne eee as te Bens rates of exchange fluctuated, to “The Train, Auto, Car or Air in Health Twelve Pound (Thirty-one Dollars and Comfort. suesor diet and Eighteen Cents) Look.” It would . Tae’ Mothersitt Remedy Go Cea. all have been frightfully confusing. Accept only a Perhaps Mr. Winston Churchill en — foresaw this very emergency when Bayer package he caused the restoration of the gold wey | is in Old England. whichcontains proven directions | basis in nee Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets AIRY Story—Once there was a | (ummm Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists man who went into a haberdashery KE M P'S BALSAM Aspirin ts the trade mark of Bayer Mana. y and emerged facture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacié to buy just one collar Bi FOR THAT COUGH! L after having bought just one collar. comicbooks.com