Life, 1926-11-25 · page 16 of 44
Life — November 25, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of 1920s Life magazine humor: **"Sunday Afternoon" cartoon** mocks domestic scenes where husbands endure wives' complaints about their behavior. **"In the Wings"** is a brief joke about lost musical comedy manuscripts, playing on theatrical mishaps. **"Easy Money"** cartoon depicts what appears to be radio or electrical equipment salesmen, likely satirizing the 1920s technology boom and speculative business schemes targeting ordinary people. The **"Life Lines"** column comments on contemporary issues: liquor referendums (Prohibition-era), prison escapes, sunlight speed, European telephone service expansion, Mars radio messages, and British alcohol spending. **"Fluent"** is a short joke about linguistic ability. The humor reflects post-WWI American concerns about technology, regulation, and consumer culture.
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Sunday Afternoon “SIERE, HERE, YOU BEHAVE YOURSELVES OR I'LL TURN ON ONE OF THOSE SERMONS!” In the Wings USICAL COMEDY PRODUCER: We nranuscript! All we've got is the music. Director: 'S all right. I remember both the jokes. “ve lost the THERE'S one good thing about a liquor referendum, It's the only contest devised by man in wl body concerned always wins a de JL According to the Alibi King, Wayne B. Wueeter, the prohibitionists in this country are too proud to vote. aL It is expected, however, that the dry vote will be much larger when a few hundred thousand of our bootleggers have had a chance to take out their final citizenship papers. LL We are assured by Mr. Hoover that the curve of the “business cycle” has been flattened. Even industry, it would appear, has gone in for the straight-line sil- houette. aL Prison officials in New York and Chicago complain that too many inmates are escaping. However, there are plenty more where they came from. aL It now develops that the speed of sunlight is twenty miles a second slower than it was supposed to be, which may account for the fact that so many up-to-date apartments have not yet received their full quota. JL Telephone service between _ the United States and Europe will be established within a few months, promises President Anpotr of the Illinois Bell Company. And when the monthly toll bill comes in many a wife will be saying: “Ah, h do you know in Prague that y been calling up that week-end I was at the Smiths’ in New Rochelle?” = As to those radio messages to Mars, it would be no laughing matter if the Martians should reply collect. JL The British people spent a billion and a half for liquor last year. Well, anyway, they got liquor. Fluent “TS he a talented linguis' “I should say so—he can speak Yiddish with one hand.” HERE'S a limit to everything— except the number of persons a college boy can get into an auto- mobile. comicbooks.coml|