Life, 1928-03-22 · page 22 of 34
Life — March 22, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces typical of 1920s-era *Life* magazine humor: **"Movie Star" joke**: Mocks Hollywood divorce culture—a starlet has divorced more times than she's been married, suggesting she remarried an ex-husband. **"You Know Him, Too"**: By Stanley Jones, satirizes the "Perennial Collegian"—an alumnus obsessed with his college identity. He's perpetually broke (still wearing freshman-era clothes), slavishly loyal to his alma mater, attends every football game, jumps up to greet old classmates, runs committees, yet harbors private doubts. The satire targets masculine sentimentality and arrested development. **"First/Second Oyster" cartoon**: Visual pun on a man who's "the mere shell of his former self"—literally depicted as an oyster shell. **"The Sign"** and **"Crime Wave"**: Brief joke pieces about spring weather and an osteopath straightening someone's spine. **"The Most Unkindest Cut"**: A woman prefers listening to a congressman's speech over conversation—commentary on radio's cultural impact and/or women's political engagement. The overall tone is gentle mockery of American social conventions, collegiate nostalgia, and modern life.
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Movie Star: I can't understand it. He: What? Movie Star: I seem to have had one more divorce than I've had husbands, You Know Him, Too E is found, either at luncheon or dinner, at the college club. He is forever jumping up, napkin in hand, to greet some new ar: He is on every Committee, and nobody else would think of running the get- togethers. He is likely to be a class officer. He keeps in touch with every mem- ber, and can tell you what Joe Fish is doing out in Fargo, N. D., and how many kids he’s got. He is be- First Oyster: It looks as if something had happened to our cousin. Srconp Oyster: Yes, something terrible. He's the mere shell of his former self. ginning to take on flesh, but his clothes are still made by the tailor who outfitted him freshman year. He goes back to the Old Place on every occasion, no matter how trivial. He may harbor doubts as to the wisdom of the trustees, but he is Loyal. He would lose an eye rather than miss one of Alma Mater’s football games. He snorts indulgently at the compulsory comradeship of the Rotarians, and be- damns the Business Boosters roundly. But he will knock the hat off a disinterested bystander who does not at once uncover when “Alma Mater” is being sung. He is, in short, the Peren- nial Collegian, and if he could see this chiselled on his headstone: “Tur Orv Prace Witt Never Have ANoTHER Lixe Hi,” he would gladly die to-mor- row, happy as a clam at high tide. Stanley Jones. The Sign I is spring!!! The streets are covered with 4 dull scum of dirty ice and the gutter lines are lost through a thick mat- ting of the same discouraging stuff. Across the river one can sce the cold, blue-white fields. And the shores gleam a long silver menace. Birds shiver under the ea fuzzy bodies telescoped into fa wardness. Humanity minces along the creak- ing, cold sidewalks—collars up; limbs contorted, drawn up against the wind’s playfulness. Red noses, Eyes smarting and moist from the sudden gusts of city canyons. The flowers—in the florist shops— peek hopefully through the frosted panes, as if beckoning to the hurry- ing hundreds. Everybody is hopeful—the new season is born. The Big League teams start North to-day! It is spring! their awk- HLT. S. The Most Unkindest Cut H®: Let's just sit here and talk. Sue: Yes, for a few minutes, and then we can tune in that speech by Congressman Votegetter. 'S our firm conviction that women dress to displease other women. Crime Wave Sue: Bill, why don't you go straight? He: I can't. I've just been to an osteopath. comicbooks.com