Life, 1927-02-24 · page 11 of 39
Life — February 24, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon - "Israelite Golf Bug":** This depicts Jewish figures at leisure, with a man wielding a golf club over his head in an exaggerated manner. The caption "KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN, MOSES!" suggests both golf instruction humor and a biblical reference. This appears to be ethnic/religious satire typical of early 20th-century *Life* magazine, which frequently published stereotyped caricatures of immigrant and minority groups as subjects of ridicule. **"How to Write a Movie" & "On the Wheel":** These are instructional humor pieces satirizing Hollywood screenwriting clichés and marital dynamics. They mock formulaic plotting, romantic tropes, and the clash between refined European settings and domestic American relationships—reflecting contemporary anxieties about cinema's growing influence and changing social relations.
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Israelite Golf Bug: KrEP your 1kAD DOWN, Mosrs! How to Write a Movie pest think of a title. Some presses her lips against it. Harold a close-up of a cigarette in a long name e “The s c is doing exactly the same thing on ivory holder, then the sinuous hand, “Martin Chuzzlewit” will do. the other side. (That's your pathos.) then the sinuous arm, finally the Once you have the title, the bat- Now is the time to Ict Another Other Woman's face. (There’s your tle is half over. The plot concerns a Woman enter Harold's life. The sex appeal.) girl named Sue, daughter of a looser she is the better. A good way Next run the sub-title, “Years middle-class family. The first of introducing her is by showing first roll by and Spring has come to the living-room of southern France.” Show apple 's house in Glendale. FY blossoms. Sue has drifted there » room is three hundred feet f p and has married a nobleman, who long and two hundred feet wide, won her on a bet, but she is his and has porphyry irs and a wife IN NAME ONLY. Keep butler in a striped waistcoat, the audience straight on this point Sue's papa is mad because Sue by showing how the nobleman a t marry: Herold Dingratl rolls up in a blanket and sleeps on mist. He expresses this anger by the mantelpiece i" night long. : (That's your imagination.) taking a cigar out of his mouth and dashing it to the floor. ‘The In the last reel Sue and Harold butler picks it up and finishes it. mect by accident in Australia, (That’s your comic touch.) where Harold has gone to get That night Harold arrives at = from the Other Woman. Sue's in an ceight-cylinder car, The audience will have to guess which he evidently earned by ue is there. Anyway, there stufing birds in his spare time. % she is. (That's your dénoucment.) Sue’s mamma, who is also promot- Change the title from “Martin ing the match, makes a very crude \j Chuzzlewit” to “Sex" and send it remark, such as, “Harold, did you } to any good producer. There's ¢ is a hell of a good cs nothing to it. E. B. W. This bothers Sue, who has ‘y, and when Harold pro- 7 On the Wheel poses she tells him she doesn’t love “WELL, MARJORIE, HERE WE ARE AT THE him—which the audience knows is 200. Now witich or THe ANIMALS woutp “YOU say his wife drove him an out-and-out fib. When Harold YOU LIKE TO sEE First?” to drink?” leaves, she runs to the door and “THE CRICKETS.” es, from the back seat.” comicbooks.com