Life, 1927-05-05 · page 19 of 46
Life — May 5, 1927 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief humorous pieces mocking contemporary social behavior: **"Tu Ne Quaesieris"** satirizes dinner guests who ask tedious questions instead of enjoying themselves—a complaint about pedantic party guests. **"Binneyville Bugle"** reports small-town gossip: a barber's hair-shingling mishap and a woman breaking her finger while cooking. **"The Hollywood Studio Café"** mocks film industry pretension through dialogue about actors, salaries, and filmmaking trivialities. **"The Advertiser's Joy"** jokes about fuel consumption and long-distance driving. The cartoons feature working-class and leisure-class figures in everyday situations. Overall, the page targets American social pretension, small-town gossip culture, and Hollywood vanity through lighthearted satire typical of Life magazine's humor approach.
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Life Tu Ne Quaesieris (Being a translation of Horace’s Ode XI, Book I, the first poem on record to express disgust with the ques- tionnaire craze.) EUCONOE, I've stood it long enough— Your questioning is driving me insane; ‘They'll diagnose it “softening of the brain” If you keep up this what's-the-answer stuff. Thus you: 1) Just what end awaits us? 2) What do the Babylonian tables show? ) How many more winters do we go? And +) Has Jove the date when we skidoo? I know you're trying hard to give me one Grand time and entertain your poet-gu But, Leucy, give the harricd bean a rest; These queries aren’t my idea of fun. Why not enjoy ourselves instead of wrecking Our heads? Move over for a little necking! Simonetta, Binneyville Bugle E> JIMPSON has developed a sudden streak of effem- inacy. He had his hair shingled Wednesday and bought himself a pair of pajamas. ** # Binney Beach was so crowded last Saturday that Constable Whiddy would let only half the bathers go in at one time, for fear the stream would overflow its banks and flood adjoining farms. oe # Miss Tessie Cull was so unfortunate as to break her little finger while crooking it Friday afternoon in the Pekoe-Boo Tea Room. F. B.M. “TIS CLUB WILL COST YOU TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, SIR, BUT IT WILL ADD FIFTY YARDS TO YOUR DRIVE.” “TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS IS A LOT FOR A CLUB, BUT I GUESS 1 CAN SWING IT.” “BUT 1 ORDERED DEMI-TASSE.’ “AW, THA’S AWRIGHT, LADY. DRINK HALP OF IT.” The Hollywood Studio Café “T BEEN sittin’ around here made-up since last Tues- day and I ain’t worked yet.”...“So I told Mr. Lasky just what to do but he didn’t do it and now he’s .-“We cut to the Marines coming, coming, com- -“You gimme your check and I'll give you my nd then we'll both give him our check.”... ing of art, did you ever see the picture I made “The heavy steals the battleship and we pick them up in a long shot on the desert.”...“Well, Moe got a little bit drunk and tried to shoot the policeman.” .+-"He said to call him up some time next year so I'm very encouraged.”.. .“‘I_ know it’s a good title: I used it in every picture I done for three rs and it always gets a laugh.”...“Who made that girl the star she is to-day? I ask you—who made her? I made her a star.” t'll be selling for a thousand dollars a front foot in just a little while.”...“We cut back to the Marines coming, coming, coming.”...“De trauble wit de Hean- dustry is by us too manny foreigners.” Robert Lord. The Advertiser's Joy “WHAT are you turning around for, John?” ‘¢ just discovered we've come five hundred and ten miles since morning; we'll have to run back to the five-hundred-mile mark and change the oil.” Fair Play ITTY: How did you get rid of that radio collector so soon? Betty: I started up the radio. ECRETARY KELLOGG says the United States should treat all nations alike. What a lot of Marines that will take! comicbooks.com