Life, 1927-10-27 · page 15 of 36
Life — October 27, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Life magazine page from October 4th contains several satirical pieces about 1920s social life: **"Mrs. Pep's Diary"** mocks high society's obsession with sports, travel, and leisure—mentioning European trips, gambling at Monte Carlo, and visits to women's exhibitions. The illustration (bottom left) shows a couple dining, likely depicting the idle wealthy. **"Broadcasting the Game"** is a brief joke about football ignorance between characters named Jimmie and Angelica. **"The Inexperienced Proverb-Maker"** satirizes someone misunderstanding practical wisdom. **"1927 Model"** and **"Los Angeles Romance"** appear to be additional gossip-column style pieces mocking Hollywood culture and romantic entanglements among the entertainment set. The overall tone ridicules wealth, superficiality, and modern urban social pretensions of the Jazz Age.
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Mes Lope Diary October Most of the morning 1 gone in trying to estab- 4th jish telephone connee- tions, the service on our exchange being so poor these days that Sam does suspect our wire of being watched by sleuths on the wrong, as usual, track. ‘To luncheon at an inn with Fifi Fitler, and near us sat Mr. Rickard, the prizefight promo- ter, bearing out the sports writers by quafing a great beaker of milk. Much talk of Fi's travels in Europe with Sally Fairfax, whose Negro maid, transported by Sally as much for her conversation as her services, quoth, after watching the roulette at Monte Carlo, “The way for you to win that game, Miss S. yo'self a little rake.” Marge Boothby to the Exposition of Women’s Arts and Industries, vast and extremely engrossing, and we did characteristically y all the booths wherefrom we might have de- rived domestic advantage, but stood spellbound before the exhibits of artificial eyes, bridge scores, pickles. soothsaying and cosmetics, and I was obliged literally to drag Marge BUT WHAT F YOU'LL DROP AROUND AT THE She: STUDIO TO-MORROW, I'LL INTRODUCE you TO MY DOUBLE. Broadcasting the Game DON'T KNOW Jimmie: 1 ner vou Angelica: Mayur away from the Bureau for Self-Un- derstanding. 1 was at some pains, too, to keep her from signing for a course in numerology costing one hundred dollars, only the assurance that she could duplicate it in the popular science series at the five-and- ten-cent stores having any weight with her soever as an argument. There was one woman advocating correct posture and one eager to do silhouettes, both of whom did evade with blushes and protests. This night to our first big dinner of the season, and it was so dreary a business that I could not but regret- fully recall similar and happier oc- casions of the past summer wherein the guests seemed to have sprung up naturally about the table, and not as if they had been thrust there by an act of God or the elements. Home betimes, reading in Hendrik Van Loon’s “America,” a beautiful and fascinating hook respectivel to format (Please turn to page we THE FIRST THING ABOUT POOTBALL, 1 po. WHAT Is It? The Inexperienced Proverb-Maker N reading an old manuscript I found this proverb: “Things which are not practical Are not desirable.” After pondering the statement, I concluded that the experience Of the author with women Had been extremely meagre. Chester Lee Quong. 1927 Model “TXATHER,” began the Beautiful Girl into the Au- gust Presence, “I want you to help as she came me do something about Geor, “Huh,” granted the old om “Want to get married, eh?" “No, Father,” went on the Beau tiful Flapper. “We married seerctly six weeks ago. I want you to help me get a divorce.” n. were comicbooks.com