Life, 1927-12-29 · page 22 of 41
Life — December 29, 1927 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **theater review/entertainment guide** page from Life magazine, listing Broadway shows and entertainments circa mid-1920s. The OCR is heavily corrupted, but the page structure is clear. ## The Cartoons: **Left cartoon**: A bewildered young man asks a salesgirl where to find silk lingerie. The joke plays on the awkwardness of a man shopping for intimate female apparel—a mildly risqué humor typical of the 1920s. His discomfort at the request is the comedic point. **Right cartoon** ("Higher Geometry"): A professor attempts to explain a triangle to a couple. The wife and husband are positioned ambiguously, and the joke hinges on the double meaning: the professor is literally teaching geometry, but the visual composition suggests a marital "love triangle" scenario. The setup mocks pretentious academic explanation of an uncomfortable social situation. Both cartoons use 1920s-era mild sexual innuendo and social awkwardness as humor—typical of Life's satirical approach to modern life and changing social mores of the Jazz Age.
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20 Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verify from the daily newspapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious At the Gate of the Kingdom. Laboratory—A drama by Knute Hamsun, by the best of our tiny-th jarBehold the Bridegroom. ater Caste, Mansfeld: milton no The Centuries. and very modern an ¢ Civic Repertory. Fourteenth St—Eva Le Gallienne making a success of repertory Coquette. Marine Elliott’s—Helen Hayes superb in one of the seasc ow pieces. Dracula. your spine with’ moi of the People. a good Ibs Pour Wall in a play of the East Side w Interference. | £m pire— ‘ama made entertaini performances Irish Player: The Ladder free, but your tit Max Reinhardt Repertory. man ani Mongolia. later Nightstick. Selwym—Showing that a police man never forgets. a Porgy. Republic—A Negro ca: in of the Thea: Provincetown— pressive product e Guild's. The Prisoner. later. The Racket. stuff, with a po Sisters. Klow—To be reviewe The Trial of Mary Dugan. murder trial w ght te for an evening Trigger. » be reviewed | \a Bewitpeero Younc Man (to ne find silk lingerie? Sarpeceme Search me. | salesgirl) : Comedy and Things Like That And So to Bed. Sam H. Harris—Wallace Eddinger as Mr. Pepys in a genially amorous adventure. The Baby Cyclone. Henry Miller's—One of the few farces of recent years which have got laughs out of this department. Grant Mitchell heads the cast. Banshee. Daly's—Nothing has been left out of this thriller exc @ certain skill Bless You, Sister! Forrest—With Alice Brady To be reviewed later. Broadway. Broadhurst—There is no sense in pretending that you don’t know about this one. Burlesque. | Plymouth—The loves and tribu- lations urlesque wheel told, at times, with great effec Celebrity. Lyceum—To be reviewed lat The Command to Love. © page. Longacre—See op- The Doctor's Dilemma. Guild—A fine cast doing Shaw as it should be done Fallen Angels. | Forty- Ninth Si—Pay Bai sod stelle Winwood in light conversa‘ » Most of the @ good. alt 15 to Laugh. Eltinge—To be reviewed The Ivory Door. Charles Hopki y for the holidays by A. A. Milne—if you I asy for the ys. Los” Angeles. _ The Love Nes The Marquise. Bilimore—Billie Burke rustling around in silks. The 19th Hole. | Cohan—You 4 a {0 get Some laughs out Hudson—To be reviewed next th June Walker. Comedy—W fr. Paris Bound. Music Bor—With Madge Ke dy To be reviewed late Playing the Game. Rits—To be reviewed later. The Road to Rome. Playhouse—Last weeks of r. Sherwood's comedy which g for a year, Martin Beck—A swel hand cry without reg The Gleasor "Spring Song. Bayes—To be reviewed later. Where will 1 Proresson: Corre: il _ The Taming of the Shrew. ney and Mary of Shakespeare in p Venus. Laurie, Jr. ought to entertain yo. Eye and Ear Entertainment tists and Models. ries, with Pi Sack Osterman and A Connecticut Yankee. thing different v Harry Delmar’: lation revue.with n clothe Te Revels. rank Pay any The Five O'Clock Girl. Mary Follies of 1927. Cantor, Irving Ber! Funny Face. Hit the Deck. nd well 1 The Love Call about Manhattan Mary. person, Eaton and Ose New The Merry Malones. those Cohan musical touches, Take the Air. 1 White Eagle. Hionre Gromeray For the last time I'm going to try to explain this triangle to you. How nice. Which is the wife and wh Idorf—Review Casin Winter She Mr Alein—Th s making a good show os Masque—To be reviewed 1 Weather Clear, Track Fas in somethi Shub F haw in Am: for the eye Bert Wheeler Knickerbocker edy with se h is the other man 4 Wis Garrick—Basi later lack"s—Joe which @ the influence ert comicbooks.com