Life, 1928-03-22 · page 32 of 34
Life — March 22, 1928 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and contest results**, not political satire. The left side features an **Old Briar Tobacco advertisement**—a straightforward commercial pitch emphasizing pipe-smoking pleasure and affordability. The illustration shows a man's profile smoking a pipe; there's no satirical intent here, just product promotion. The center section announces **winners of Life magazine's "All-America Travel Contest,"** listing prize recipients and their hometowns. Below that, "Kay's Twelfth Letter" reveals the winning answer to a geography/trivia question about American landmarks—apparently contestants had to identify locations mentioned in previous letters. The winning answer corrects geographical errors about Baltimore, Wilmington, Johns Hopkins University, and other East Coast sites. The right side advertises **Norway tourism** and **Glo-Co liquid hair dressing**. **Bottom right**: A small cartoon captioned "Mixed foursomes!" shows women golfing, with a joke about how women golfers should use hair dressing to keep their hair neat during play. This is mild, period-appropriate humor about women's appearance. This page contains **no political satire**—it's a typical 1920s magazine mix of ads, contests, and light humor.
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Ola Briar TOBACCO “The Best Pipe Smoke Ever Made!” Smoke it in your old briar pipe— It makes a perfect combination! Light up your old briar pipe filled with Old Briar Tobacco. Enjoy its com- fort and cheer. Notice the natural to- bacco taste. Draw in the fragrance of the slow burning, flavory leaf. Smoke itawhile. Then see how cool and how extra smooth Old Briar Tobacco is. Every day from everywhere men ate sending us the message that Old Briar Tobacco is the end of a long search for genvine pipe pleasure—a perfectcom- bination for the finest old briar pipe. Tr has taken experts, with years of scientific knowledge in the art of mel- lowing and blending, and generations of tobacco culture to develop and per- fect Old Briar Tobacco. And by the application of quantity production methods, it is possible for you to en- joy Old Briarat such arcasonable price. Of All the Pleasures Man Enjoys Pipe Smoking Costs the Least In sizes at 25¢, 50¢, $1 and $2 United States Tobacco Co., Richmond, Va. SPECIAL OFFER To make you acquainted with all of the genuine pleasure of pipe smoking, we will send you on re- ceipt of this coupon a generous package of Old Briar Tobacco. Send 10c—coin of stamps—for postage and mailing expense. Tear out and Mail this coupon with roc— coin or stamps—to United States Tobacco Co., Richmond, Va.,U.S. A. Print Name Address -- City and State LP. 3-22-28 Life Lire’s All-America Travel Contest PRIZE WINNERS (Kay’s Twelfth and Last Letter) First Prize of $75.00—won by M. Cartiste Minor, Dan- ville, Kentucky. F Second Prizes (two more than were offered) ‘of $25.00 each—won by: Frank G. Anperson, 140 Thorndike Street, Brookline, Mass. Mary Taytor Heatu, 14 Beckford Street, Salem, Mass. Cuartotte Misu, 962 Mt. Adams Drive, Portland, Ore. Martin Suepuern, 21-5406 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, D. C. Stoney Stein, Temple Gar- dens Apartments, Baltimore, Md. The Winning Answer to Kay’s Twelfth Letter per KAY: You must have been walking in faced that DuPont- Play- pos- your sleep when you blinding snow-storm for Biltmore Hotel and Shubert’ house, where Anne Nichols’ trophe after the “s”) “Abie’s Irish Rose” appeared last October, are in the same building. Of course, the comedy is a sight but it’s no scenic wonder. Wilmington, being beyond Balti- more, is not en route from W, ington, And the medium-size brick house you saw on Hollins Street is the old family home (hardly a “literary shrine”) of H. L. Mencken, editor of the American Mercury of New York. Poe's monu- ment is in Druid Hill Park but he’s buried in Westminster Churchyard. Didn't you overlook the other students at Johns Hopkins (no apostrophe) University when writing those uncomplimentary things about the “Medics”? And don’t you know that Laf: te Square, while in a high-class section, is far from the plebeian Jones’ Falls district, where Madame Bonaparte, despite her numerous abodes, never lived? Valley Forge—scene of Washing- ton’s terrible winter, not his greatest victory (Yorktown)—isn’t visible en route from Baltimore to Philadel- phia, but you did pass within a few hundred yards of University of (Continued on nert page) The Land of the Midnight Sun Your trip abroad will be vastly more enjoyable if you go to the land of the Mid- night Sun first and visit the continent after the heat of mid-summer. Norway’s summer climate is ideal, even far north of the Arctic Circle. Excellent boats direct to Bergen or Oslo. Request Booklet No. 25. lax Government Fiat te Travel Burean 342 Madison Avenue, New York Asotuer thin an learn by mail to speak good English, and thet will astonish your friends. —Detroit Free Press. Mixed foursomes! Wuen fair ladies play, they usually rate turnout as much as golfing form. Ladies notice your hair first. Be sure that nine holes won't leave it tousled and roughed. Use Glo-Co, the liquid hair dressing. It won't give hair a patent-leather finish. It will fight dandruff. If you can't get it at your favorite drug store, department store or barber shop, mail fifty cents for a full-size bottle to Glo-Co Company, 6511 McKinley Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. Same price in Canada, 10 McCaul Street, Toronto. GLO-CO LIQUID HAIR DRESSING As necessary as the morning shave comicbooks.com