Life — April 5, 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

LEFiE wD GRAFILEX For real Childhood Pictures—there’s no other camera like the Graflex. You never know at what in- stant you'll have a chance at a picture that will be precious to you for life. The one camera in which you can watch each moment's fleeting expression exactly as your negative will “see” it, is the Graflex. ’ ' ’ And now there's a simplified Graflex, the camera that removes all guesswork in focusing — ready in an instant for the ordinary picture or for » thousandth of 9 second speed — priced within everybody's reach. 3%” x 4%" Graflex, $80. .... Other models $85 to 8375. FEATURED BY THE BEST DEALER EVERYWHERE At a table under the awning of the Cafe de la Paix Roger and Audrey were sampling some of the manage- ment’s finest Cinzanot. The golden, slanting rays of a summer afternoon sun picked out here a distinguished looking face and there a dignified bot. tle; the terrace was crowded. “My dear,” remarked Audrey, “there is Sir John Quelmaine and his wife. Do beckon to them.” The second couple caught Roger's eye, strolled to the table and seated themselves. “Capital weather,” commented Sir John, “today is Paris at its best. Is this not an interesting crowd that passes constantly—jolly assortment of characters.” “Very interesting, Sir John,” replied Audrey, “but don’t you find some of them rather tiresome. Paris is sim- ply dripping with Americans—one can’t get away from them.” “Oh, I daresay there are a few of them about,” yawned Sir John, “I really can’t pick them out.” “They pick themselves out,” ob- served Roger. “Everywhere we find them—loud talk, bad clothes, atrocious table manners. Even in our country place in Devon they have penetrated in their damned search for things that are ‘quaint’ or ‘so picturesque’ or ‘thoroughly English’—to say nothing of the crowds of them in London.” “I've met some that weren't at all a bad sort,” interjected Lady Quel- maine, F “On the Channel steamers the rail- ings are lined with American school teachers,” continued Audrey, “taking pictures of the shore and the waves and the fishes and the boats. And the students, uhh, what people. One might come to Paris by air but there one meets the newly rich. They are the worst.” “Beer,” said Sir John to the waiting garcon. Roger lighted a cigarette: “While I was fishing in Scotland with Lord Lynnfield there were some rich Amer- icans about—he had for some reason taken a fancy to them. They had made money in varnish or some such trade. I heard enough about Ameri- cans to last me till my dying day.” “Oh, one likes one’s own place,” said Sir John. “Well, I wouldn’t like their place and when it comes to having their drunken students and their old maid school teachers and fat business men, with their tortoise shell spectacles, and their clubs and excursions crowding everything from Loch Lomond to the Jungfrau and parading through mu- _ FOLMER GRAFLEX CORP. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK "| cums, hotels, tains, # is simply tet (Continued on Page 4) ul ed Weekly by Life Publi; Company. 398 Madison Ave.. New York. N. No. 242: 1929. Ent’des 2nd Class Matter New York, 8, 1883, at New York P. ice, b 3.1879. Printecio U.S.. Ent'd as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office tr Cleveland, Ohio, Eovd as dad Clase Alatter at the Bees Ofsee Bees Conmaan Copprsght 1925: Life Bub. Co. ie U. 8. Englend and British Posseenicee comicbooks.com