Life, 1927-04-07 · page 8 of 59
Life — April 7, 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **travel advertising** for steamship and mail lines serving Asia and the Pacific. The large left-side advertisement promotes Dollar Steamship Line, American Mail Line, and Admiral Oriental Line, offering passage to destinations like Honolulu, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Japan. The decorative illustration features **stylized Asian women's faces** in a romanticized "Oriental" aesthetic typical of early 20th-century Western marketing. This reflects period attitudes toward Asia as an exotic, desirable destination for Western travelers. The right column contains unrelated poetry reviews, including "Show Boat" and other literary pieces, suggesting this is a standard magazine layout mixing advertising with editorial content.
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Ssreet Scent, Kobe Lands of Charm Across the Pacific ‘THE OLD worLp of the Orient is a new world of ad- venture for you. Go now to these ancient and fascinat- ing lands of the Far East. Youmay visit Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila. Or go direct to Japan from Seattle. Plan tomake the complete trip. Visit all of these inter- esting ports and countries. No other lands in the world offer the traveler so much of adventure and romance. Japan is a miracle of scenic loveliness and modern progressiveness. Great cities, snow-clad mountains, ter- raced gardens, a joyous people. China, most ancient in civilization, is a storehouse of treasure. Sce the quaint river life—junks, sampans, bumboats swarming beneath your steamer's bow. Manila at the crossroads of the Pacific, a cosmopolitan * city; Baguio, tropical mountain resort, a short day's journcy distant. Great President liners take you in perfect comfort. Pleasant publicrooms. Spacious decks.Airy staterooms. A cuisine approved by the most critical of world trav- elers. Liberal stopovers at any port. Tickets interchange- able between the two lines. There isa Dollar Liner sailing every week from Los Angeles and San Francisco for the Orient (via Hono- lulu) and Round the World. Fortnightly sailings from Boston and New York for the Orient via Havana, Pan- ama and California. AnAmerican Mail Liner sails every fourteen days from Seattle for Japan, China and Manila. And fortnightly sailings from Naples, Genoa and Marseilles for Boston and New York. For complete information communicate with any ticket or tourist agent or Dollar Steamship Line American Mail Line Admiral Oriental Line 32 Broadway. . . . . NewYork Dime Bank Building . . . Detroit 604 Fifth Ave. + New York 112 W. Adams St. . . Chicago, Ill. 25 Broadway New York 101 Bourse Bldg. . Philadelphia, Pa. 177 State Street - Boston, Mass, 514 W.SixthSt. . Los Angeles, Calif. Robert Do!lar Bldg.,San Francisco, Calit. . 1519 Railroad Ave.,So., Seattle, Wash. Rhymed Reviews Show Boat By Edna Ferber. Doubleday, Page & Co. O*% Mississippi, day by day, Progressed the Cotton Blossom, show boat; When people came to see a play They walked the plank or took a rowboat. Her boss was Captain Andy Hawks Or else his Spartan wife, Par- thenia; The flower that blessed these parent stalks, Magnolia, was a white gardenia, Among the river towns she grew As lovely as a crimson rambler, And then, of all the motley crew, She married Ravenal the gambler, Upon the boat to her and him A babe was born one rainy morning; The little stranger, christened “Kim,” Took much too long a time 2 borning. While "Nola acted show-boat style She never made a big sensation Despite her devastating smile; But Kim received an Education. She chummed with Woollcott, Broun and Towne And all the festive keyboard- pounders (Some think it helps a book's re nown To name our journalistic round- ers). Correct in manner, speech and dress, Well versed in all theatric scholia, She won a great New York success; But other goals allured Magnolia. Again she made her pilgrimage Behind a Mississippi towboat: Though Art may grace the city stage, Impassioned Drama loves the show boat. 4.G. A Mother's Care “Ax? what will you be doin’ now you have no mother: “I don't know,” replied the bereaved boy. “Well, me boy, if you ever feel as if you need a good hidin’, come to me a” I'll be a mother to you.” —London Evening Nevt. Have You Seen Her? A pvescairrion of a missing girl says: “She wore flesh-colored stockings and bad bobbed hair.” That ought to make It easy to find her almost anywhere on the street.—New Orleans States. Th Ey Th Abe Anc Abc Wh But The I vi In] II pare mak for bolt sir, in b ders oh, : over you’ no, do t poli whe knev back said you’ antic twel knov don’ lieve on t perf. and the « Yous driy, comicbooks.com