Life, 1929-02-01 · page 17 of 40
Life — February 1, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief news items with accompanying illustrations and humor. The main cartoon shows a man so angry at a cat that he throws his shoe before the cat can escape—visual humor about quick temper. A photograph shows a police officer at what appears to be a safe or vault, with the caption joking: "Cop: Does it bother you to have people lookin' over your shoulder when you're workin'?" This is workplace humor about the awkwardness of being observed during tasks. The news briefs cover mundane civic matters: a judge's ruling about a woman's lips in a motor accident case, fashion comparisons to African dress, and a decision about swimming pools for police training. The tone is satirical, treating trivial bureaucratic decisions as newsworthy absurdities typical of Life magazine's satirical approach.
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Life WASHINGTON, D. C.—The House Ways and Means Committee has reported favorably on a joint resolution to author- ize the President to ask other nations to participate in the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Vice President Dawes appeared in behalf of the resolution, and said that later the government would be asked to contribute to the expenses of the Fair. To come under the head of military ex- pense, nO doubt. NEW YORK CITY——A long drawn- out legal battle was launched when the Pathé movie company obtained an injunc- tion restraining the State movie censor from interfering with their sound accom- paniments to “Sal of Singapore.” The movie lawyers claim the censor has no jurisdiction over sound, and if he claims the right it would seriously handicap the movies as well as illustrated lectures. The pity of it. Mr. Blooey was so quick tempered that he threw his shoe at a cat before he could get it off. LOS ANGELES—A Superior judge, James H. Pope, awarded Thelma Gor- don, motion picture actress, $7,112 dam- ages from Kenneth Sanderson because her upper lip was marred in a motor accident for which Sanderson was responsible. The judge declared: “In this day and age a woman’s lips are her stock in trade, espe- cially if she is engaged in motion pic- tures.” Whaddaya mean, especially? NEW YORK—Evening gowns worn by New York matrons this season are very similar in outline to the native dress of the Kikuyu woman of British East Africa, according to Miss Ethel Traphagen, in- structor in costume design at Cooper Union Art School. The Kikuyu women, however, are remaining calm. MILWAUKEE, Jan 16—A swimming pool is unnecessary to train a_ police patrolman, the City Council decided in crossing off a pool from the proposed plans of a new public safety building. © 65 WS 08S A®-Ba-MO SE 7 EAD UD RFD NG = FOB POS 00 We -wWO GAR ccny. TBEGORLK oo The salesman asked the professor if he wished to have any initials in his new hat. STEVENS POINT, Wisc.— Burglars stole a safe containing $3,000 from the Wisconsin Telephone Company, and hauled it away on a hand sled which they stole from a nearby house. They stole a ladder from an office near at hand and lowered the safe from a window. Evi- dently, they didn't need the office. PROVIDENCE, Jan. 15—Every mem- ber of a Protestant church in this state would be made an informer of the na- tional prohibition enforcement service by a plan adopted yesterday at the Rhode Island State Citizens’ Convention, held under the auspices of the state Anti- Saloon League. Are they their brothers’ peepers? Corp: Does it bother you to have people lookin’ over your shoulder when you're workin’? Except in Venice. comicbooks.com