Life, 1929-03-22 · page 15 of 36
Life — March 22, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Satirizes real estate developers' aggressive marketing tactics in what appears to be the 1920s-30s. A couple tours a vacant lot with multiple "proposed" signs for different development schemes (chipboard, painting set, console table, etc.), each claiming prime location. The joke mocks how developers would pitch the same worthless property with invented purposes to different buyers—a commentary on real estate fraud and speculative bubble hype. **Bottom Cartoon:** A person lies in bed with an elaborate contraption overhead labeled "Don't stay/Do stay/Don't stay where you are," suggesting marital discord. The caption reads "It's our own invention—and we expect it to make us a lot of money," satirizing the absurdity of commercializing relationship problems or selling dubious "solutions." Both comics critique consumer culture and commercial exploitation of everyday anxieties.
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The newlywed who furnished his home after the fashion of the real estate developers. A Chicago Gunman Addresses The Tuesday Afternoon Ladies’ Club “Til never forget my first job, as we call it, and how scared I was. The leader of our gang told me to give Louie Flatz a ride because he didn’t like Louie's looks, or something. I was never so thrilled in my life—my first assignment. I borrowed a sawed- off shot-gun from one of the boys, as I didn’t have one then, and went to a flower shop where Louie bought flowers for his women, and then I waited patiently. IT must of been there two hours all the time getting more and more excited. Of course, I laugh at it now, but I was really nervous, because supposin’ I missed and the boys had the laugh on me. “And then I see Louie and I let him have it in the back and jumped into my car and drove away, and I must of been nervous for an hour afterward, “OF course, it makes me laugh now —all that nervousness over one man. Why, last week—but I mustn't boast. Some day I hope to be the best gun- man in Chicago. The field is practi- cally unlimited. “Good day, ladies, I've got to go now—got a little job I want to finish off before supper.” Vo Do De Ode Tell me pretty dancer, pray, In the new-filmed talkie play Have you anything to say? “No, my friend,” she doth reply, With a coyness in her eye, “No, I only heave a thigh.” Hottywoop Version: You're the scream in my talkie. Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers Give us innocence in our girlhood, young women who can blush. —Rev. John Roach Straton. American motion pictures are writ- ten by the half-educated for the half- witted. —St. John Ervine. A house without a radio set might as well be a house without a window. —Arthur Brisbane. Cards are full of life lessons—so is baseball. —Herbert Kaufman. The truth is that prohibition is a gigantic success.—Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals. All the people I know have cither had nervous prostration, are having it now, or are just about to have it. —William Lyon Phelps. I am anything but intellectual in my tastes. —H. L. Mencken. In fact Henry Ford is just a big boy grown up.—Bernarr Macfadden. There is nobody who doesn’t shud- der at the sound of an oath on a girl's lips. —Dorothy Dix. Where the utterances of scientists differ from the Bible, the Bible is al- ways right. —Rev. Arthur R. Kleps. “It's our own invention—and we expect it to make us a lot of money.” comicbooks.com