Life, 1927-09-08 · page 20 of 36
Life — September 8, 1927 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page combines theater reviews with a humorous essay and a satirical cartoon about domestic life. The main cartoon, titled "First Legion Visitor," depicts a lively café scene with multiple figures in 1920s attire. The caption's joke—"Where's Ed? Oh, he got six drinks in him and was last seen heading east and yelling 'Berlin or bust!'"—satirizes post-WWI travel enthusiasm and perhaps the escapist impulses of the Jazz Age, when Americans were increasingly vacationing abroad. The essay "I Don't Want to Boast" is gentle domestic satire. A husband humorously claims to be a "model husband" by describing how he maintained perfect household order during his wife's vacation—no mess, pets thriving, everything spotless. The twist: his wife thanks him for accompanying her *on her vacation*, revealing the joke is self-deprecating; he's bragging about basic competence while missing that he was absent the entire time. Both pieces mock 1920s American life—travel culture and gender expectations around domestic management.
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