Life, 1928-07-05 · page 44 of 50
Life — July 5, 1928 — page 44: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains mostly advertisements and literary content rather than political satire. The main items are: **"The Greene Murder Case"** — a book review in verse by Arthur Guiterman, summarizing S.S. Van Dine's mystery novel. The poem humorously reveals the plot twist: the murderer is caught by fictional detective Philo Vance. The joke is the final couplet's anticlimactic answer ("Why, that's the very one! You guessed it!") — likely poking fun at mystery conventions where readers never successfully predict the culprit. **"Unattached"** and **"Cynical Typesetting"** — brief humorous anecdotes about modern life and printing errors, not political commentary. The page is dominated by period advertisements for Dr. Scholl's foot pads, Mothersill's anti-nausea remedy, Crown Lavender Salts, and other products — typical magazine revenue. No significant political satire or caricatures appear on this page.
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CALLOUSES Quick, safe relief for callouses and burning on bottom of feet. At all drug, shoe and depe. stores—35¢ Dr Scholls Zino-pads xn, For Free Sample, write The Scholl Mfg. Co., Chicago —in the roughest waters. This ap- i nausea is unnecessary suf. Mothersill’s prevents Travel Sickness on your journeys by Sea, Train, Auto, Car or Air, ” Fig & $1.30 at Drug Stores or direct he Mothersill Remedy Co. Ltd. re ‘A FAIRY STORY Oxce upon a time there was a Golf Enthusiast who gave up the game because he felt that he was getting too old to play.—Louisville Times Ptiaste gramophone records have been in- vented. The trouble is that they are playable, too.—Humorist (London). anenioe SAuTs At home, at the theatre, while shopping or traveling, or if you find reelf in stuffy rooms or places, the pungent fra- grance of Crown — Lavender Smelling Salts clears the brain, steadies the nerves, counteracts faintness and weariness. It is invigorating. delight and com- fort. Sold everywhere. Schieffelin & Co., 170 William St., New York. ero The Greene Murder Case By 8.S. Van Dine, Charles Scribner's Sons, Tuoucr Greene perhaps intended well, His will condemned his heirs, well gilded, For five-and-twenty years to dwell Within the house said Greene had builded. So both the sons, the daughters three And Mrs. Greene the shrewish mother, Tied up by Father Greene's decree, Intensely hated one another. One winter night when snows lay deep And clouds obscured the star’s clear crystal, Miss Julia Greene awoke from sleep To die by some unhallowed pistol. And wounded, too, that fatal night Was Ada, Greene's adopted daughter; Detectives quested left and right, Suspicions played at teeter-tawter. Then, one by one, the sons were shot And poison stilled the mother’s scold- ing; And people said, “This fiendish plot Demands immediate unfolding!” And there were prints of overshoes, Forgotten pasts and imipuidens Besides a secret room with slews Of books about assassinations. The slayer led them all a dance With craft that strangely _ proved effective, Till caught by Mr. Philo Vance, The famous amateur detective. Who planned and staged those tragic scenes? Who pulled the trigger back and ressed it? Who killed those four unhappy Greenes? Why, that’s the very one! You guessed it! Arthur Guiterman. UNATTACHED A recent writer has told a story of a moder girl who said to a real estate agent when he wanted to sell her a house: ‘A home? Why do I need a home? 1 was born in a hospital, edv- cated in a college, courted in an automobile, and married in a church; I live out of the delicatessen and paper bags; I spend my mornings on the golf course, my afternoons at the bridge wble, and my evenings at the movies, and when I die. I am going to be buried at the undertaker’s. All I need is a garage!""—St. Augustine Record er Tue Mowmit’s award for Cynical Typeset ting is handed the Kansas City genius who de- scribed a well-known concert artist as the prominent painist."'—Detroit News. comicbooks.com