Life, 1927-06-09 · page 15 of 39
Life — June 9, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines a romantic poem ("The Red Dress" by Dorothy Parker) with humor about senior class predictions and a stereoscopic comic titled "Indiscretion." The main cartoon shows a stereoscopic gem (a double image viewed through a special viewer) depicting what appears to be a compromising social situation. The caption reads "INDISCRETION," and the advertisement text warns that viewing such stereoscopic gems could damage one's reputation or create scandal—a humorous reference to how risqué or suggestive stereoscopic images were popular novelty items that people kept private due to social propriety concerns. The senior class section lists typical yearbook information (favorite sports, poems, voting preferences), grounding this issue in college/high school culture of the era. The overall page satirizes both romantic idealism and Victorian social anxieties about morality and propriety.
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The Red Dress ALWAYS saw, I always said If I were grown and free, I'd have a gown of reddest red As fine as you could see ‘To wear out walking, sleck and slow, Upon a sunny day, And there'd be one to see me so, And flip the world away. And he would be a gallant one, With stars behind his eyes, And hair like metal in the sun, And lips too warm for lies. I always saw us, gay and good, High-honored in the town. Now I am grown to womanhood... I have the silly gown, Dorothy Parker. The Senior Class Voting ravonitE POEM — “Gunga “Tf, 6 Din,” 348. las Nickle i from Armentiéres,” 29, ( 3. Favorite Sport — Curling, 433. Clock golf, 14. Hare and heunds, 1s. Religious Preference—None, 55. 207. “Nicho- “Mademoiselle “Ode on a STEREOSCOPIC GEMS “DIDNT GLADYS INVITE YOU TO TIE BUT SHR CERTAINLY We “NO, THRE MRAN THING, WEDDING? ‘rT BE ABLE TO KREP MR FROM TILE DIVORCE.” Pleasantest Year — Senior, 453. Junior, 121, Freshman, 34. Second Freshman, 29. Hardest Year — Sophomore, 347. Leap, 215. First year after leaving college, 98. Have You Ever Kissed a Girl2— Yes, 607, No, 13. Not on the mouth, 11, Only my sister, 3. Undecided, 1. What Is Your Greatest Regret?— Not having been football captain, 218. Taking Analytical Geometry, 153. Lending neckties to friends, 88. Getting fired, 3. What Suggestions Would You $ ving the college moved York, 507. Abolishing Chapel, G12. Unlimited cuts, 341. Major letters for the Bowling Team, 4 Norman R. Jaffray. TIOM9ONNOA 40 LNAWASHWNY GNV NOILWIISIGS FHL 404 “INDI SCRETION" comicbooks.com