Life, 1927-03-03 · page 14 of 35
Life — March 3, 1927 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical commentary and cartoons about early 1920s American life. The top cartoon shows a couple on a couch, with the man saying he cannot afford an expensive coat, satirizing post-WWI economic concerns about marriage expenses. "The Movie-Story Conference" section parodies Hollywood's creative process, with a fictional writer (R.L.) describing absurdly melodramatic film plots involving Marines, shipwrecks, and volcanos—mocking the era's sensationalist cinema. The bottom cartoon depicts Chicago schoolchildren enthusiastically raising their hands when a teacher asks a question, captioned to suggest they're responding to an absurd query. The joke targets educational earnestness. The "Life Lines" column offers brief satirical observations, including commentary on Harvard-Cambridge sports rivalries, political events under President Coolidge, and social trivia about the wealthy and famous.
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“AFTER WE'RE MARRIED, DEAR, | CAN'T LET YOU GO IN AND ARGE A THREE-IUNDRED-DOLLAR COAT.” “OM, DARLING, WOULD YoU TRUST ME WITH SO MUCIL casi?” The Movie-Story Conference i HAT we got to have in this spot is something big —something real big—a wow... .1 remember one Griffith used when I was with him in 1908, - Then we cut to the Marines coming, coming, coming. ...We got a lotta stock stuff of a shipwreck. We ought to use that somewhere....I remember a peach of a gag that Chaplin used about twenty It ain't big enough. C t something big flood or we need is more me! f She says a title to your love grown cold?’ ‘ has ys a title nd how!’ two-shot of the girl and the steam-shovel where we get over our message... . Back to the Marines coming, coming, comin ‘ I'd like to cheat in the mother angle but we're overfoot- age now... .It ain't big cnough. We got to have some- thing real big—a big physical wow like a volea shipwreck.” him: ‘Horace and he back: PUPILS IN CHICAGO SCILOOLS RAISE BOTIC HANDS WHEN THE TEACHER SUD- DENLY ASKS A QUESTION, THE grand riot between Harvard undergrad- uates and Cambridge cops will probably be- come an annual affair, replacing the Princeton game on the Harvard shedale, From the Harvard point of view, there is some- thing to be said for members of the Cambridge police force: few of them wear signet rings, JL The Albuquerque Advertising Club is advocat- ing changing the name of New Mexico to Cool- idge. Such a change, however, is not expected to lower the State’s temperature. Jt “Hear Haminton’s Appress . RE A HEL “Bes Cuow sings, ‘1 Want to Go There, Don't You?” Kansas City Church Adcertisement, We're sure that Ben’s intentions are perfectly good. LL The American Legion convention, it is an- nounced, will be held in Paris (France) this year. Many who attend will do so out of sheer curiosity to see if it has stopped raining. iL Blue canaries have appeared in London—thereby dem- onstrating the enormous influence, even on the animal kingdom, of Grorce Gersiuwin. JL There is probably no political significance in the news that two fist-fights were staged in Congress on the day following President Cootincr’s plea for world peace. JL We now learn that an electrical stethoscope and radio loud-speaker are amplifying human heart-beats 10,000, NOW THEN, WHO 000 times. But CAN GIVE ME THE Ln isn’t this rather ANSWER PROMPTLY ? 4 f cutting in on the tabloid ne ws- papers’ field? They Had Them Guessing scarcely tell the Bixby twins apart, Arcine: Same here. The two girls look so much alike that I am alway: = ting their legs mixed. comicbooks.com