Life, 1927-12-01 · page 66 of 80
Life — December 1, 1927 — page 66: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical humor pieces typical of Life magazine's social commentary: **"The Poker Face"** (top) is a three-panel joke about a husband caught lying. In panel I, Fred claims a poker victory with his hand. Panel II shows him bluffing about playing cards. Panel III reveals the real deception: he's lying about where he was—he tells his wife Mr. Higginbaum called at the office, but she reads his guilty expression and knows he's been playing poker. The satire mocks both male deception and the assumed wife's shrewd ability to detect it. **"By the Way"** (right) satirizes pretentious literary culture. A character describes a friend who's an unsuccessful writer—unpublished except for brief Dial magazine acceptance, dismissive of commercial success, yet claims his novel-in-progress will be a "sensation." The joke targets the self-important obscurity of struggling modernist writers who reject popular success while producing little of note. Both pieces use period vernacular and casual dialogue to mock middle-class masculine behavior and artistic pretension.
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