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This page from *Life* magazine contains primarily **advertisements and a diary column**, not political cartoons. The main content includes: 1. **Havana travel advertisement** (top) promoting the Sevilla Biltmore hotel, positioning Cuba as an exotic, accessible leisure destination for Americans—typical 1920s luxury tourism marketing. 2. **Dandruff remedy ad** (bottom left) for "Liquid Arvon," using pseudo-scientific language common to patent medicine advertising of the era. 3. **Mrs. Pep's Diary** (right column)—a satirical personal essay where the author reflects on attending plays and her conflicted patriotic emotions, including embarrassment at fellow Americans' behavior abroad. She critiques both overly patriotic theater and her own susceptibility to nationalist sentiment. The diary's humor lies in its self-aware mockery of middle-class American cultural pretensions and emotional contradictions—a typical *Life* magazine satirical feature of the period.

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red CUN. Fascinating sights and sounds, historic places, an amazing freedom that is charmingly European in this Monte Carlo of America—yours for a brief train and steamer trip—forty-eight hours from New York. Charm, interest, gayety, fashion and SPORTS. Racing, Golf, Tennis, Jai Alai, Yachting, Fishing, Bathing. Time never hangs heavy. There are smart shops, the Opera, the Casino and the interesting night life centering at the Sevilla Bilemore on the Prado. For Reservations, cable or write the Sevilla Biltmore, Havana «4 BOWMAN ‘BILTMORE HOTEL The SEVILLA BILTMORE John McEntee Bowman President E. B. Jouffret Vice-Pres. , Tours. rhe Leading 1928 S40 crist cabin fertainment. jal associations. Welte for literature. Students Travel ©) a ‘x $52 FIETAVE® GRAND CENTRAL PALACE NEW YORK ys 20 DANDRUFF A Sure Way to End It There is one sure way that never fails to re- move dandruff completely, and that is todissolve it. Then you destroy it entirely. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and two or three more applications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop instantly and your hair will be lustrous, lossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hun- Sred times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store, and a four ounce bottle is all you will need. gts simple remedy has never been known to Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 22 lungs, thereby attracting consid- erable extra money into the coffers of the organization which reaches many people whom the churches never touch, and I did not, but the reminder does explain to me why I know the words of so many gospel hymns which have not been a part of my regular religious train- ing. My favorite being, “Alas, and did my Saviour bleed, and did my sovereign die, Would He devote that sacred head for such a worm as |?” It is indeed a pity that I cannot set down the music which should accom- pany it. December L@Y late, reading the 28th journals’ reviews of the many plays which are now opening, and it does sound from the accounts as if George Kelly has wrote the most remarkable piece of- fered to the publick in my time, so that my zeal to witness it is un- bounded, and I do pray that, after having laid out a goodly sum for tickets, I be not disappointed. For it has been my recent experience that, however well or amusingly the various critics of the theatre write, they are no criterions, for me, of the drama, Then to Fannie Hurst's new book, “A President Is Born,” disgusted with myself for my re- actions to that portions of it which are strictly patriotic, but Lord! I am as weak as George M. Cohan when it comes to the flag, and am at some pains not to burst into tears when a band strikes up “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” Which, being strictly interpreted, means that, in a moment of diplomatic stress, I might stick out my tongue at Viviani or better, and am therefore not su- perior at heart to the one-hundred- per-cent Americans who spoil Europe for me, and give foreigners such an unfortunate impression of my be- loved country. But even so, I can still record a bit of sympathy with the voice which floated out from a neighboring bus on a Roman night, “Don’t you dare to show me another damned church!” Baird Leonard. When Conscience Stirs A warren says that people can always collect debts if they go the right about it. We hear of a man who wi shamed into paying his tailor’s bill be- cause of an intimation on the bottom, “A remittance will surprise.” —London Opinion. Ixtaiceinc—A quality sometimes no- ticed in the voice which says you have the wrong number.—Detroit News. comicbooks.com