Life, 1927-08-25 · page 12 of 36
Life — August 25, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon**: "Things We Read About but Never See" depicts police throwing a dragnet over a city to catch a criminal. This is satirizing the gap between newspaper headlines about police efficiency and actual crime-fighting results—readers see dramatic stories but rarely see criminals actually captured. **Main Article**: "You Don't Mind If I Don't Talk, Do You?" is a dialogue between a man and woman about dancing silently together. He appreciates not having to maintain polite conversation; she defends women's constant talking as nervousness around men. The piece satirizes gender stereotypes about female chattiness and dating etiquette of the era. **Lower Cartoon**: "Courtesy to Patrons" shows a whale asking "Have you left anything?" to a small figure, likely satirizing excess consumption or greed.
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Things ec THE POLICE THROWING THEIR DRAGNET OVER THE CITY TO BAG A CRIMINAL. So Say We All OYE klorious sunshiny day, after she had enjoyed herself playing on the lawn of her summer home all afternoon, little Dorothy came into the house and said to her mother: “Oh, Mama, I do wish it would be nice weather like this forever—just once!" Courtesy to Patrons The Whale (as Jonah steps forth): HAVE YOU LEPT ANYTHING? “You Don’t Mind If Don’t Talk, Do You?” SHE: You don’t mind if I don't talk, dv you? I sort of feel I know you well enough so you'll un- nd if I don’t talk and I think talking all the time spoils the rhyt! of dancing, sort of, don't you really think it doc , I guess you're right. :: But if you don’t talk so people think it's rude. I mean why I simply adore to dance y ause I sort of fe don’t have to talk to be poli all, do you know what I mean? He: Abs'lutely ! Sue: It's terribly sweet of you to be so nice about it. I mean I really think it takes away an awful lot from the pleasure of dancing to have to keep talking all the entire time, don’t you really think it does? ah, I guess that's right. I mean I think simply heaps of girls just talk on and on about simply anything at all just because they are afraid the man_ they're will think they're rude if they don't keep talking, do you know what I me He: Yeah, that's a hot one. Sur: But it's an absolute fact, my dear, because I mean they are simply scared stiff to keep still for a imin- ute, but I honestly think it is per- fectly ridiculous to feel you have to keep talking all the entire time when you are with some one who under- Stands, sort of, which is why I simply adore dancing with you be- cause I mean you really don't mind if T don't talk, do you? Lloyd Mayer. Hats the insidious thing about pre-war liquor—your best friends won't tell you they have it. .) comicbooks.com