Life, 1926-11-11 · page 35 of 45
Life — November 11, 1926 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page contains travel advertisements and satirical humor typical of Life magazine's 1927 content. ## "Men at Their Meanest" A dialogue satirizing male boasting about automobiles. One man brags about his expensive European "Gazottus-Spanish" car—its performance, speed, distinctive appearance with "silver and purple with red wheels," and airplane motor. The satire targets masculine vanity and one-upmanship: he constantly emphasizes the car's superiority, how others notice him, and his ability to outpace the "Twentieth Century Limited" train. His interlocutor's brief responses ("Why don't you?") subtly mock the braggadocio—if the car is so superior, why doesn't he actually use it as claimed? The humor lies in exposing male pretension through automotive status-seeking. ## Advertisements The page also features luxury travel ads: Cunard Line's Mediterranean cruises and a Cuba tourism ad promoting Havana as an exotic getaway "90 miles away," emphasizing romantic scenery and entertainment.
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Life 33 COME TO HAVANA Men at Their Meanest I E: Now I drive a Gazottus- Spanicli; finest European car made. Only a couple of ‘em in this country. Real class, boy, The chassis cost me over fifteen thousand | smacks. Say, those birds have for- Sailing from New York Feb, 21, 1927 got more about makin’ automobiles | =———— —— than we'll ever know. - You: Well, the Ford’s ‘a pretty o @ Le Se nal Exquisite Jsle He: She rides like a cradle. One - to a hundred miles an hour from a D, 1 h standing start up a mountain-side. of e 1g t Nothin’ like it on the road. Say, I Only 90 miles away...right at the can leave New York at ten in the doorstepof Americalies CUBA... morning and be in Boston for lunch+| Pear] of the Antilles. You: But why should you? . : He: I pass everything. The other |’ Rules dru skies. sparklingspohite Reaching Cairo at the height of the Season | night I just made a monkey outta winds. Color... .soft pastel shades... the Twentieth Century Limited. bold, crashing blues, greens, reds...gleam- Youdda thought it was goin’ back- ing white...a riot of gorgeous beauty. HE renown of the Mauretania is world- wide and her distinctive Winter Cruises to the Mediterranean have become an outstanding event in pleasure travel. The Mauretania Cruise offers a most gratifying Winter voyage to the ever-fascinating Inland Sea, where sunshine and good weather prevail and where every sight ashore is a new pleasure. The comfort and recreative activities aboard are such as only a sumptuous Cunarder can provide. 43 Glorious Days for $830 and up Calling at Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, Villefranche (French Riviera), Naples, Athens, Haifa(Holy Land), Alexandria, Southampton (for London). Many comprehensive shore excursions. Stop-over privileges in Europe. One-way bookings to Naples, etc.,$275up Round-trip tickets via North Adantic. We cordially invite inquiries and suggest early reservations. ward. And, boy, when I open that cut-out—you can’t hear nothin’ else but for miles around. And how that sweet boat holds the road! Take any kind o’ corner at seventy miles an hour. You: Remarkable! He: And what a mean-lookin’ job! Silver and purple with red whee Boy, they sit up and take notice when I buzz by ‘em. And she’s got a special airplane motor—toured all through the Rockies without once shiftin’ into low! Say, I could leave town to-night and be in Frisco two days ahead o’ the fastest train. You: Why don’t you? Robert Lord. Outguessing "Em HAVE solved the parking prob- lem! Quite inadvertently it came to me the other day, while I frantically sought a vacant space not prohibited by law, service station, hotel or speak-ea The simplicity of it caused me to marvel at my utter idiocy in not fig- uring it out before. But now I have it! » No more will I burn gallons of gasoline in a vain search for the elusive vacancy. Never again will I rack and twist my shoulders, strain my neck and wrench my back in attempting to wedge into a too-short parallel space. Henceforth I shall have no work for my chiropractor. No more will I spar for an opening with a decripit 1918 flivver, suffering thereby a dented fender and the loss of the parking space, and, inci- dentally, of the last vestige of my gentility. It is all settled now; I shall give the matter no further concern. I've sold my car. Marion E. Burns. Havana... .gay, exotic...city of enchanting contrasts quaint, narrow streets...grilled windows. . overhanging bal- conies.. .musical foreign tongues... .alluring...romantic. Smart shops. . . great hotels... broad promenades...theopera, theaters, cafes...horse races at famous Oriental Park. . .thrill- ing speed of jaialai.. golf, tennis, polo, fishing, yachting, hunting. . .every sport of land and sea... luxury... fashion. .. pleasure. At night...the brilliant Ca- sino... thronged with the world’s best.. dining, danc- ing, gaming. . .enjoying life at its fullest. Come to Cuba now. ..to this enchanting land of new experiences. . .new scenes new delights. . .and the gracious hospitality of its charming people. (In Cuba even the warmest sum- mer day is made pleasant by the cool trade winds. The tempera- ture during 1925 never rose above 93 nor fell below 66 degrees.) comicbooks.com