Life, 1929-04-05 · page 19 of 56
Life — April 5, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"The Hindrance"**: A joke about romantic obstacles—a man can't pursue a relationship because the woman "can't get no job," satirizing economic barriers to courtship during what appears to be an economically difficult period. 2. **"Effect of a Hasty Tour Abroad"**: A humorous account by someone (Herman Fay, Jr.) who visited famous European sites but admits forgetting details, having confused multiple locations. It mocks tourists who rush through landmarks without retention. 3. **"Scotchman's Song"**: A brief Scottish dialect joke about skim milk in coffee. The main cartoon shows a man and woman on a cliff with the caption about "infernal liars these novelists are"—mocking romantic fiction's unrealistic portrayal of adventure. The artwork emphasizes the gap between literary romance and mundane reality.
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17 The Hindrance “Yoh ain't in love, is yoh, Andy?” “Yes, Ah is in love all right—but she can’t get no job.” Derinition oF Parkine Space: An unfillable opening in an unending line of automobiles near an unapproachable fire plug. Remember when this used to be a dirty crack? “With a voice like yours, you ought to be in the movies!”? Then there was the Chinaman who started a humorous magazine and set all of the tongs wagging. GUIDE (at Versailles): And this is the famous Hall of Mirrors, where President Wilson and the other statesmen signed the treaty of peace. Effect of a Hasty Tour Abroad It’s a problem which is . the harder, breaking into “Yessir, the Champs-Lizzie is one the movies in Hollywood of the grandest sights in London, I or at your local theatre. don't see where they get all those pic- tures, and the statuary—... You ought to see the Leaning Tower of Scorcimtan’s Sono: Fitfel; Napoleon built that to the mem- You're the skim milk ory of his first wife, Madame Taj- jn my coffee. Mahal... . Well now I forget which hotel we stopped at in Paris—it was cither the Tweeleree or the Gare Jew Naw— ... Sure we saw Lock Lo- mond—the first lock in the Suez Ca- nal... . We met Kemal Pasha too— they call him The Lion of Lucerne because he used to be Viceroy over Switzerland for the League of Na- tons. Memorial, we didn’t stay long in Bel- gium but we had an audience with Mussolini, just as a private citizen, though, the Passion Play wasn’t go- ing on while we were there, but he certainly must make a wonderful Judas—just built’ for the part... . Then we went to Edinburgh and kissed the Blarney Stone and watched the Scotchmen throwing pennies for the little native boys to dive for... . Then we saw India—the Sphinx and the Pyrenees, of course, but to me the most inspiring sight of the wip was the French Cocottes; boy, there's the finest body of troops in Europe!” Heman Fay, Ir. “T was just thinking, Miss Prune, what infernal liars these novelists are!” ~~ comicbooks.com