Life, 1926-12-30 · page 10 of 37
Life — December 30, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces about early 20th-century urban life and social conventions: **"The Prince's Valet Goes Crazy"** (center cartoon) depicts a European nobleman's servant having a mental breakdown, likely satirizing the absurdity of rigid class hierarchies and the strain of servitude. **"Overheard in the Lobby"** captures hotel guests discussing room amenities—soap wrapping, bathing facilities, service standards—poking fun at nouveau riche travelers unfamiliar with luxury hotels and their pretensions about accommodations. **"From a Club Chair"** and "In Retrospect"** offer social commentary on amateur vs. professional sports and nostalgia for earlier eras (horse-cars, theatrical performances). The page satirizes period anxieties: class performance, wealth display, and rapid modernization creating confusion among the social climbing classes.
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Indignant Movie Queen: OFFICER, THAT MAN INSULTED ME! HE PASSED RIGHT BY ME AND DIDN'T TURN AROUND FOR ANOTHER LOOK. From a Club Chair HE chastening power of coin- cidence was best exemplified for me in the case of the traffic cop who recognized his boyhood enemy as the Mayor's chauffeur. ** # The annoyance in sport is not so much in having so many ama- teurs turn professional as in gz so many professionals amateurish. * oe * Ndbody cares much what a man accomplishes in his public career now, if only his private life is interesting. ** * Paris will look strange to the American Legionnaires who are to make a pilgrimage there next summer, There will be hardly a“ ecretary in sight. ** * My idea of a small town is one wherein the taxi driver at the railroad station knows where you are going before you tell him. James Kevin McGuinness. More Likely ILLIS: They say Smith’s wife commands his respect. Gituis: No; he respects her commands. In Retrospect EMEMBER the days when there were horse-cars on Broad- when Lily Langtry sang at , when a good glass of beer cost five cents, and Garfield was President? Well, why don’t you a book about it, then? THE PRINCE’S VALET GOES CRAZY Overheard in the Lobby “CAAY, I like this place. A good S hotel. Yes, and big, too. Big as they make ‘em, I guess, | never seen a bigger. Not this side Chicago any They got a big one there. Yes, in Chicago. Or maybe Cleveland. Anyway A pretty swell place. Bigger than this, I guess. But not so | i, Ut doesn’t stick up so. It's wider, kind of. I don't like it, though. It’s not swell like th It doesn’t stick up. I like to be stuck up high. You can sce things then. From high up, you can, The view is good. I got a good room here. Yes, a bath too, It has a bath. It’s on the second floor. Kind of handy, you know. You don't have to go ‘way up. [t's a swell room, all right. The soap’s all wrapped up. That shows it's sy. They wrap it up for you. It's in a package. That makes it It's sort of foolish, though. nee, kind of. It gets They only do it at It shows they got good service. ‘They want you to feel at home. They do it well, too. i it’s pretty late, ain't it? I won't go up, though. I won't go up to my room, I guess. Not just now, any- ind of dreary there. it much. I'll just T'll stay with you. can talk some. We y ourselves. I'll have a smoke too, I guess. Have you got a match? Hey, have you got a match? Hey, wake up! Have you got a match? Wake up!” in the classy W. W. Scott. Dibs on Inconstancy F I were steadfast, If I were true, There might be some point In yearning for you. Loving is the best of me, ithlessness the worst; I would have left you But—you left first. Now I weep my lonely tears (And I know how to cry!), For you who are not con- stant... Any more than I. Eleanor Chase. comicbooks.com