Life — November 18, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Bad Guesses HE great majority of contestants Tiseae wrong on Douglas Fairbanks and on John McGraw, With the excep- tion of the Talmadge sisters, every one of the prominent people was named by some contestants as Charles G. Dawes. Following are some of the wrong iden- tifications that the Gay Nineties Contest produced: PRESIDENT COOLIDGE was identified as Charles G. Dawes and Harry Thaw. GEORGE M. COHAN as Kaiser Wilhelm, Al Jolson, Newton D. Baker, John Philip Sousa, W. G. McAdoo, Harry Lauder, Theodore Roosevelt, Paul Whiteman, George Creel, Fritz Kreisler, Woodrow Wil- gon, Irving Berlin, Eddie Ricken- backer, Arthur Brisbane and Field- Marshal Von Hindenburg. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS as Babe Ruth, the Duke of York, Jack Demp- wy, Bernarr Macfadden, Billy Sun- day, Eugene Sandow, Harry Sinclair, “Red” Grange and Ty Cobb. THE PRINCE OF WALES as David Belasco, Gene Tunney, William §. Hart, Secretary Wilbur, George ‘Ade, Luther Burbank, Tex Rickard, Earle Sande, Rudolph Valentino, Sir Thomas Lipton, Fatty Arbuckle, H. L. Mencken, ‘Clemenceau, Harry Thaw, Tom Mix, H. P. Whitney, De Wolf Hopper and Lon Chaney. THE TALMADGE SISTERS as the Dolly sisters, the Langhorne sis- ters, Mrs. Frederick Grant and Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. GENERAL PERSHING as General Custer, Admiral Sims, P. T. Barnum, Admiral Dewey, Nathan Hale, Gen- eral Sherman and Marshal Foch. JOHN McGRAW as William R. Hearst, Jack Kearns, Mayor Walker, D. W. Griffith, Senator Reed, King Alfonso, Will Rogers, Judge Landis, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Will Hays, Samuel Gompers, Secretary Mellon, “Pussyfoot’’ Johnson, Flo Ziegfeld, Imperial Potentate Evans (of the K. K. K.), De Wolf Hopper, Charles M. Schwab, Al Smith, William Green, Tex Rickard, Elbert H. Gary, E. L. Doheny, Stanley Baldwin, Fred Stone, Senator Borah and Mussolini. HENRY FORD as H. G. Wells, Charles E. Hughes, Connie Mack, Lord Bacon, John Barrymore, Walter Raleigh, Crown Prince Olaf of Nor- way, Will Rogers, King George V, Lloyd George and the Earlof Somerset. KING ALFONSO as Irving Berlin, iser Wilhelm, Paul Whiteman, Colonel Mitchell, Victor Herbert, Leonard Wood, Prince Carol, Will Hays, Fritz Kreisler, General Persh- ing, Leopold Stokowski and General Ballington Booth. Life WINNERS of the GAY NINETIES CONTEST I N the GAY NINETIE Nineties. their identity were furnished. MBER of Lire were published nine photo- graphs of present-day celebritie: red in or about the The names of these celebrities were withheld, but hints as to The purpose of the Gay Nineties Contest was to identify the subjects of these pictures and to assign in cach case a on for their fame. The nine pictures, with the correct identifications, appear on the opposite page. Following are the prize-winners: First Prize—$50.00 won by Orson ANGELL, Washington, D. C. Second Prize—$25.00 won by Harry L. Marsnatr, Jr., Laguna Beach, California Ten Third Prizes of $10.00 each won by Mrs. Joun D. Cary, Springs, New York. Mrs. Wittiam K. Conway, Wash- ington, D. C. Miss Bette R. Doyte, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Howarn Fi town, Virgini: Miss Exizanetu Howarp Batavia, New York. Richfield ernis, Jn., York- Miver, Miss Evizanetu M, Newnorp, New York City. Miss Pecay Perry, New York City. Grorce Ropinson, North town, New York. Datsy M. Vavener, Oakland, Cali- fornia. Tarry- Miss Vatenta W. Winter, Wethers- field, Connecticut. The prize-winning answer was as follows: Picture No. 1. CALVIN COOL- IDGE (at extreme left). Reason for his fame: He is the man nobody knew until he was interviewed by Bruce Barton, Picture No. 2. RORGE M. COHAN. Reason for his fame: The only Irishman who profited from the Pass Over of 1917 and '18. Picture No. 8. DOUGLAS FAIRBA Reason for his fame: He is the real gold dust kid of the Fairbanks family. Picture No. 4. THE PRINCE OF WALES. Reason for his fame: He is England’s glad hand across the seas, Picture No. 5. CON and NORMA LMADG for their fame: Their sister married an actor. Picture No. 6. JOHN J. PERSH- ING. Reason for his fame: He fathered America’s bad French. Picture No. 7. JOHN J. Me- GRAW. Reason for his fame: He is the hero of “The Shooting of John McGraw.” Picture No. 8. HENRY FORD. Reason for his fame: He invented the parking problem. Picture No.9. KING ALFONSO. Reason for his fame: He is King of Hearts. comicbooks.com