Life, 1927-06-30 · page 13 of 35
Life — June 30, 1927 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: **"The Perfect Fourth"** mocks American patriotic excess—men claiming independence while denying it to women and daughters, insisting on golf holidays while controlling their families' activities. **"Just Between Us Girls"** features a woman ranting about women's fashion and public behavior. She criticizes short dresses showing legs as scandalous and immoral, and objects to women appearing in cities without male chaperones. The satire targets prudish attitudes toward women's liberation and changing social norms of the 1920s. **"No Appeal"** is a brief divorce joke playing on custody outcomes. The cartoons mock both rigid patriarchalism and outdated social conventions, particularly attitudes toward women's freedom and dress—likely reflecting 1920s debates over the "New Woman" and changing morality.
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Life The Perfect Fourth EPRIVING the young children of the liberty of shooting their own firecrackers, ‘yrannizing over daughters who desire to go riding with young patriots in sports roadsters, Resolving that all men are and of right ought to be free to play golf on a holiday regardless of family plans. Insisting upon every man’s inalienable right to direct the sending-up of the youngsters’ skyrockets. Deploring the passing of the spirits of '76. McC. H. Suggestion for the Next Great Biblical Photodrama HARAOH’S daughter has just returned from the Nile, bearing the infant Moses in her arms. Her father (an irascible old gentleman who nevertheless has a kind heart, as is shown by his smoking long black cigars all the time) looks scorn- fully down at the babe and registers disap- proval. Spoken title: “What did you bring that brat up here for? He has no camera personal- ity!" Spoken title: “Well, he looked pretty good i UST BETWEEN US GIRLS ‘G OSH, my dear, I'm SIMply LIVid! OSsified at this tively perVERTed and things keep and all, do you Well, ANYways, my dear, it said am getting RAPidly because I HONestly think it i the way all these FOUL re TALKing about imMODest DR know what I mean? Oem, I mean I point in the PApers that some odd soul in ITaly who is a MINister or something, I guess, has been sort of WARNing FARMers’ wiv to keep their DAUGHters out of the CITies if they want to save their MORals— can you BEAR it, my dear? Becaus I mean practicably EVerybody knows that people who live in the COUNtry are HEAPS more imMORal and all than people in CITies _ bee: they have no OTHer aMUSEments or some- thing, but what makes me ACtually so MAD I could ROLL over and BUTter myself with IRE at this point is t ister person says ‘y not take a STEP in the CITies and TOWNS with- out secing WOMen, GIRLS and CHILdren in SHORT DRESses, often inDEcently showing HALF- naked L. which shock ANY one with any sense of SHAME and DEcorousness’ or something! ACtually, my dear, CAN you BEAR it? I mean have you honestly ever THE HEARD of such POIsonous incinerAtions for anybody to MAKE? Well, HONestly, my dear, I'm SIMply RIP- ping about it because practicably ALL you HEAR nowa- days is about SOMEbody like this perVERTed MIN ter dePLORing this and dePLORing that, and if it is anything to be dePLORED it is practicably SURE to be something about GIRLS’ LEGS, do you know what I mean? HONestly, my dear, I am all hot and BOTH- ered at this point—I mean I ACtually AM!” Lloyd Mayer. in the rushes.” NLR. J. PLAIN - CLOTHES MAN TAKES A DAY OFP. No Appeal “Gosh, Smith was certainly unlucky in his divorce su “How's that?” “Why, he got the custody of the mother-in-law.” “SEAM, - FIGURED I'D STAY ON THE JOB THIS FOURTH— it’s saver!” comicbooks.com