Life, 1927-02-10 · page 18 of 43
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**Top Cartoon: "Television is Going to Ruin the 'Detained at a Conference' Story"** This satirizes how television will undermine traditional excuses. A person watches TV showing someone claiming to be "detained at a conference," while simultaneously viewing the actual conference scene in the same broadcast—exposing the lie. The joke reflects early television's potential to make it harder for people to fabricate alibis, as simultaneous broadcasting could contradict false stories about one's whereabouts. **"As One Fan to Another" Article & Cartoons** The column discusses Six-Day Bicycle Races and urban social life, with accompanying cartoons about marriage, legal matters, and entertainment. The lower cartoon about a "snappy burnt-orange tie" at a fire sale appears to be a separate humorous vignette about bargain shopping. The page reflects 1920s-30s urban American life and emerging television's social implications.
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‘i [ TELEVISION 18 GOING TO RUIN THE “DETAINED AT A CONFERENCE” sToRY. As One Fan to Another L, old timer, I dropped in t the last Six-Day Bicycle Race in New York and they told me a lot of popular men-about-town were around there the whole week. Just long enough to sit out their last marriages, it scems. I saw one young blood who had been married the afternoon the race He dined with his bride and kissed her good-by, saying, “Now, dear, I'll be gone all week. You can drop in on my lawyer to- morrow and fix the details of our divorce with him. It will save time.” The race itself has become quite fashionable lately. Any number of the younger members of our so-called best families manage to get in a nap each night at the opera and then scuttle off to howl themselves hoarse while the Italian tenor’s brother-in-law pedals around the So long as the » is unknown to ew Yorkers. It’s a week of lonely nights on the ostermoors. They tell me, too, that during the Six-Day Race it is almost impossible to get a first-rate job of gunning or blackjacking done any- where in town, It seems that the ated Association of Master Gangsters and Thugs, Local 687, forbids any of its members accept- ing a professional engagement dur- ing that week under penalty of re- scinding his pistol license. If any one is reported missing by his anxious, or relieved, family while the race endures, the Police Depart- ment waits until the last night and then pages the whole mob at one time in the lobby of Madison Sq Garden. Photographs are no “puAt’s A SNAPPY BURNT-ORANGE TIE.” “YEAH; 1 GOT IT AT A FIRE SALE.” to identifications in these cases, since many a man enters the building with a as smooth as the story he told his wife on leaving home and emerges bearded as an Old ‘Testa- ment prophet. Some of them, at any other time of year, would be sus- pected of having made one of those “non-shave” election bets on John W. Davis. Well, anyway, old timer, the Six- Day Bieyele Race is so popular that anagement 0,000 profit 1 lot of moncy to pay for a couple of cases of boot- leg insomnia. James Kevin McGuinness. You Know “QO Billie is in Tin Pan Alley now, ch? What does he do?” “He writes those songs they put on the other side of phonograph records. F the instalment sales- men wish a better-bus ness slogan, Every American Home. comicbooks.com