Life, 1927-03-03 · page 30 of 35
Life — March 3, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with one substantial literary feature. The main content is "Mrs. Pep's Diary" (continued), a humorous personal essay by Baird Leonard describing the diarist's February activities—reading a murder mystery novel, attending a Danish opera singer's performance, and nervously recalling smuggling cigarettes across European borders as the most thrilling adventure of her life. The satire is gentle: the piece gently mocks the writer's easily distracted nature, her admission that a morality tale about smuggling only appeals to criminals, and her breathless recollection of petty contraband smuggling as a "most agonizing" experience—inflating mundane life drama. The page also contains period advertisements for Klenzo Shaving Cream, Glover's mange medicine, Luden's cough drops, Johnny Walker cigarettes, and a Rexall drug store endorsement—typical 1920s commercial content with no satirical intent.
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Life Bee Ss True friend of your razor and your face. Thick, heavy lather that lasts. Klenzo Shaving Cream is sold only at Rexall Drug Stores. SAVE with SAFETY at your You will recognize it by this sign stores Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 9) instead of one, with the following in- scription on the reverse of his I have a heart, and here is another bottle for you which I took from the tight- ncross the aisle.” This evening ! a Frijsh, the Danish so- prano, and did revel for almost two | hours in the rare satisfaction of lis- tening to a singer who can be called an artist even by persons who are careful of what they say. February Up betimes, full of high I resolves to write letters 8th and cast up accounts, but en route to my desk I did glance at the new books which have come in, and on the ket of one of them called “The Mouls House Mystery” was the silhouette of one man throt- | tling another, so I was good for nought until I had read it to the end and learned the motive and out- come of the combat, nor did the ex- perience profit me much e the pleasant excitement of the chase, for the moral is for smugglers only, and to the effect that it is nobler for them to confine their activities to silks and cargoes of a similar respectability than to dabble in such disreputable stuff as narcotics. Lord! the coura | required to defy customs officers in any connection soever is left out of my make-up entirely, for I do recall the night when I succeeded in get- ting twenty Melachrino cigarettes across various Continental frontiers as one of the most agonizing that ever I spent in my life. News this day that the new American opera by Deems Vincent | Millay has been put into rehearsal, and I do thank God that the librettist did go back to Saxon times for her story and that English-speaking singers are to have the principal roles, forasmuch as upon several oc- casions in the past the male members of opera-in-English casts have sounded to me a little like sublimated Sam Bernards. Baird Leonard. GLOVERS IMPERIAL MANGE MEDICINE For More Than 50 Years the Same Quality—Formula—Virtue Never Has Been Changed Be fair with yourself. KNOW the facts and face them fairly, Write for free booklet, ‘How to Have Beautiful Hair and a Healthy Scalp.” H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc. Dept. H-66, 119 Fifth Ave., N. Y. The super de luxe Lude: for LUDEN users GOLDEN-lacquered metal container with individual places for six Luden's Menthol Cough Drops, taking up no more space than a lady's compact of a gentleman's watch. Refill it from the regular Sc Luden yellow package— sold everywhere. Keeps cough drops in good condition end no matter where you are, provides quick relief. A novel prize or favor for parties, Packed in a “golden gift” box and filled with six Luden's Cough Drops. We will send one to you, postpai receipt of 25c. Send for it today. ‘WM. H. LUDEN, Inc., Reading, Pa. comicbooks.com