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This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment listings**, not political satire or cartooning. The main content includes: 1. **The Broadmoor Resort advertisement** (top): A travel promotion for Colorado Springs' luxury hotel, emphasizing natural beauty and "metropolitan service." This represents 1920s leisure tourism marketing. 2. **"Help for Fagged Eyes"** (center): An advertisement for Murine eye drops, featuring a woman's face. "Fagged" meant tired/exhausted in period slang—this targets office workers and readers experiencing eye strain. 3. **Travel and hotel ads**: Multiple promotions for Mediterranean cruises, various hotels, and European tours—reflecting the prosperous 1920s travel industry. 4. **Entertainment listings** (right column): Reviews of Broadway shows like "The Five O'Clock Girl," "Funny Face," and "Rio Rita," with brief critical commentary. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture and entertainment rather than political messaging.

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*S BROADMOOR es fresh yellow-green of new plant life, the darker shade of evergreen forests, fantastic red cliffs, Black Forest sunrises, Pikes Peak sunsets, balmy air at twilight—you'll love it here in the next few weeks! But every time of year has its peculiar charm,and the distinctive- ly metropolitan service is unvaryingly sustained; if yoy can’t come now, come sometime}, Ae Lan COLORADO SPRINGS Dry Breaking a Franscontinental Journey Here | MEDITERRANEAN NORWAY Gircise SUNE SO 52 days, $600 to $1300 Spain, Italy, Riviera, Sweden, Scotland, Berlin, (Paris, London). World Crulse, January 16th, 1 110 days, $1000 up. Mediterranean, 66 days, January 30, 1929, $600 up. Frank C. Clark, Times Bldg., N.Y. HOTEL SYRACUSE SYRACUSE, N.Y. VERY metropolitan service is provided in this new and modern 600 room hotel. All outside rooms—with bath. Rates from 3.00 up. rooms 4.00 up. BSE HOTEL Murine soothes and refreshes MOCAESTISN, strained, tired eyes—makes them sage feel strong and fook alive. It also cleanses them of irritating partic- Senco bathe <= lanes on les which cause a bloodshot con- beds. In heart of banking dition. Perfectly harmless. Try it! and business area. Noted for its hospitality and good food. 300 rooms from 2.25 URINE Up. Both under the direction of OUR ROY P. BRAINARD For a EYES EUROPE $7.22 aay c t Beoteh urna od Sater Ce $00" HARRIS TWEED ts='totse: sires 3 ALLEN TOURS, 3 length by pow, $2.00 pwr 7d. Sample ie se statiog shades desired.” NEWALL, 277 Stornoway, Scotland. Confidential Guide (Continued from page 36) The Queen's Husband. Playhous, lightful role for Roland. Young, sct off apace social revolution in the best tradition. Splensad entertainment. The Royal Family. Scieyn—Tem home life of patrician stage-folk. ‘A sort of play, Dut tugging at the heart, it, The Shannons of Broadway. Marti A rustic comedy, flavored wih Broadwan made into a swell show by the Giensoce.. Sh! the Octopus! Royale—If you like them creepy this one will get you. An evening af tt and fever. as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Coma politan—An old-fashioned spring remedy you're fed up with sophistication. ‘Admirabis revival. " Eye and Ear Entertainment A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbitt— Arthur's Knights have evidently” been taking lessons in syncopation. Some of the sweliag music in town, with William Gaxton and Con stance Carpenter. The Five O'Clock Girl, Forty-Fourth St—Ous favorite tunes done by Mary Eaton and Osar Shaw, Funny Face. Alrin—One of the shows thit make you indifferent to the high cost of livin The two Astaires and Victor Moore are woth almost anything. Golden Dawn. Hammerstein's—A barreled operetta. Jungles, camps a African what-nots as background, Good News. Forty-Sixth St-—Excellent moe gical show. On the double-quick from start to i Keep Shufflin’, Daly's—Good singing dancing by.a high-stepping colored cast Miller and Lyles. Manhattan Mary. A ollo—Ed Wyno puts this show on his back and carries it through. My Maryland. Jolson's—Stonewall Jackson's troops and Barbara Prietchie in a swell singing contest. Rain or Shine. Cohan—Joe Cook in a show by himself. Terrific laughter nightly. Rio Rita. Majestic—High jinks along the Ris Grande, with the usual Ziegfeld ac mes, Ada May and Bert Wheeler have change of the fun department. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—We're all for the Army after seeing this stupendous production, Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue are the fire works. Show Boat. Ziezfeld—Some fine harmony and a sumptuous show, with Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan and Puck and White. Sunny Days. Impericl—"A Kiss in a Tax” goes musical. rank Peintyre and Billy B. Vaa supply the fun. Take the Air. Waldorf—Musical comedy of aviation. Will Mahoney does some fine clowning. The Three Musketeers. Lyri = adventure set gloriously to music. thing to warm the coctles of the ben for Mr. Ziegfeld. Yours Truly. Century—Leon Errol in an old favorite. More amusing than ever. Pan HIS is the time of year when I am placed in a position of more intimate understanding with nature; when I long to spend the lengthening days under the open sky, away from the repressions of home; when I am again faced with the realization of the futility of the arts of men; when I take to wearing old clothes and go about unshaven and unwashed; when my back is racked with pain at the end of the day from pack-bearing; when I make my meals out of tins and forgo all dining facilities; when everything around me is in a state of disorder and confusion from being 0 the move. My wife has announced that she starts spring housecleaning soon. Harry Epstein. comicbooks.com oe ee a