Life, 1927-04-28 · page 15 of 35
Life — April 28, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a humorous illustration series titled "Leg Language" by cartoonist Marge, showing various positions of women's legs and feet paired with different skirt styles. The visual joke satirizes how women's leg movements and postures could supposedly "communicate" different messages or social meanings through fashion—a playful commentary on 1920s women's fashion and behavior. The accompanying text covers war dispatches from China and brief humorous anecdotes ("Confidences") about marriage expectations. The main cartoon "Fanderville Magician" appears to depict a stage performer in an absurdist scene. The "Leg Language" feature represents period humor about how modern women's increasingly visible legs and fashionable clothing choices were interpreted as social or behavioral signals.
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Life Behind the Chinese Front (By Lire’s Special War Correspondent) (CHANG-SHA, April 16 (by In- dian runner duck)—Brisk fight- ing has ensued on several banks of the Yangtse Kiang between the right wing of the Left Party and the left wing of the Right Party. Heavy firing from both parties early this morni| ed to a complete reversal of positions, the left wing of the Right Party now occupying the right bank while the right Major Berkeley Bumpitt of the Brit- ish Army, retired, and Major Ever- ett Glass, U. S. A., retired, who dif- fered over the proper manner in which General Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Army should run his campaign. Blows were narrowly averted and a letter of reprimand has been directed to the Chinese General along with several items of construc- tive criticism. oe # Hankow, A pril 18 (by chow dog sled)—Miss Lohan Bidong, sixteen and pretty, who was officially appointed the Chinese Joan of Are in an effort to stimilate interest in the war, has ten- dered her resigna- tion. She alleges she was deceived, being given to un- derstand that she was being ap- pointed the Chinese Gloria Swanson. ** * Chang-sha, April 21 (by the rotor- ship “Schmootz”) —Miss Pyrene Vaudeville Magician (after completing his stunt of — Roundout of Buffa- “sawing woman in two"): COME ON NOW, LIZA, PULL Jo, N. Y., was the YOURSELF TOGETHER. wing of the Left Party occupies the left bank of the right turn of the left branch of the right subsidiary of the Yang Po, which practically places it a little to the left and some- what to the right of the right flank of the left wing of the Right Party occupying the Northern end of the Southern extension of the left branch of the right bank. Both parties have called for a new deal. “* * Hankow, April 17 (by pogo stick) —A mammoth score-board has been erected in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel, from which the progress of the war may be watched step by step. Last night a counter attraction was offered by a bitter argument between subject of an out- rage by Nationalists to-day, when on the Tai Po-sien Road she hit her jinricksha boy, sixteen and pretty, over the head with a souvenir cane. Miss Roundout al- leges that rebels crowded about her, became indignant and used un- translatable language, several breathing down her neck in the process, and that her souvenir cane is a total wreck. The jinricksha boy will probably recover. Henry William Hanemann. Confidences “TP give anything if my wife wasn't so wishy-washy.” “I'd be satisfied if mine just wasn't so wishy.” Leg Language comicbooks.com