Life, 1927-05-05 · page 16 of 46
Life — May 5, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **"Just Between Us Girls"** (top): A humorous column mocking the inconvenience of television. The writer complains that TV broadcasts at "ANY odd hour" disrupts daily life, making it impossible to use the telephone or maintain privacy. The satire criticizes how this new medium intrudes on domestic routines—a timely complaint during television's early adoption period. **"Journalistic Portraits" by Bruce Barton** (right): Profiles a powerful newspaper auditor (identity unclear from image) who controls which stories get published. The piece satirizes his significant influence over American public opinion and media narratives. **Bottom cartoon**: Shows a child asking his grandmother if she remembers him; she admits forgetting him immediately after their last visit—a joke about elderly absent-mindedness.
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14 Li SUST BETWEEN US GIRLS “M* dear, I am ACtually all of a DOOdah—I mean I'm SIMPly QUIVering with agiTAtion over this odd TELevision contrivance they have suddenly thought UP because I honestly think the iDEA of it is TOO perVERTed—I mean I ACtually DO! I mean you have little eNOUGH privacy as it IS nowadays because you practicably NEVer can get a MINute to yourSELF or anything, but with this poisonous TELevision idea people will be able to disCOVer you at simply ANY odd hour of the day or NIGHT, my dear, which is actually the most BILious situAtion because I mean I have ALways simply aDORED TELephoning when I am in a hot BATH, which to say the LEAST would be kind of im- PRACticable with this TELevision iDEA in operation, do you know what I mean? HONestly, my dear, I am getting rapidly OSsified with this VILE iDEA be- cause it just means that you will have the most SOBbing exPEriences like having some BOY friend suddenly PHONE you when you are BOUNDing around your BOUdoir with prac- ticably nothing on but a STEP-in, because I mean you will simply NEVer be able to re MEMber to put something ON before you answer the PHONE. Well, ANYways, my dear, the iDEA of this obnoxious TELevision thing would be simply SCREAMing in SOME ways, be- cause I mean think of the people you could call UP and disCOVer in all kind of COMpromising and emBARrassing poSItions and every- thing! I mean I honestly think THAT part of it would be terribly inTRIguing—I mean I ACtually DO!” Lloyd Mayer. Exclusive RS. NORTH: The Burrows seem to be unusually proud of their car. Mrs. West: Yes; they can’t afford it more than anybody in our set. LICE (listening to college quar- tette): Oh, Virginia! Wouldn't you like to have those boys for your first four husbands? Mrs. Brown: Tommy: Yrs, BUT SHE FORGOT YOU THR NEXT MINUTE. Le Journalistic Portraits Bruce Barton HE cuts the uplift-reading public with Glenn Frank, Dr. Frank Crane, and Henry L. Mencken. He is understood to get thirty-five per cent. of the gross re- ceipts with the privilege of having his own man audit the books. His influence has thoroughly satur- ated the American people. Recently a candidate for the wrestling champion- ship was billed as “The man nobody throws.” He is the envy of all newspaper men because he has shown what an edi- torial writer can do if he turns profes- sional. Until he came . along withthe Tabloid Reporter: 1 sust THovGuT younger generation, OF A SWELL HEADLINE— the farthest North “HOOCH QUEEN "Ss in making money INI out of the Bible had been reached by the Reverend Billy Sunday....What a wonderful sub-division salesman he would make! Editor: NOW GO OUT AND PICK UP A STORY TO FIT IT, McCready Huston. DID YOU REMEMBER ME TO YOUR GRANDMA, TOMMY? comicbooks.com