Life, 1929-08-09 · page 7 of 44
Life — August 9, 1929 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for Kro-Flite golf balls, made by Spalding. The top half includes a theatrical script excerpt titled "Merely a Matter of Farm" (continued from an earlier page), featuring characters named Muze, Si Lo, Timothy, and The Choir discussing a newborn child and various rural matters—apparently a comedic sketch with no clear political content. The dominant content is a product advertisement with photographs of golf balls. The copy claims the Guillotine (a golf ball testing device) can damage other brands but cannot cut Kro-Flite balls, positioning them as superior and durable. The ad emphasizes Kro-Flite's proven performance through rigorous testing, priced at 75 cents each. This is straightforward early 20th-century advertising, not political satire.
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Merely a Matter of Farm (Continued from Page 2) Voice Benno Hint: (Enter Maize). St Lo: Sow! It is Ewe! Maze: Yes, it is me, all rye, all rye. St Lo: You are looking rather pail. What is that you are fold-ing in your arms? Maze: Oh, that is a haby. Isn't he s-wheat? St Lo (sternly); Aha, so a child has heen harn to you! Is this some fowl Hay, pa! bran-new lot? Maize (softly): Must sty confess? St Lo (suspiciously): Come glean! Hoe is this rake that has take vintage of your di-vine innocence Maize (intensely): 1 met him in a calf-€ in Jersey! He said he was the Mare of Filly, but he was only foal- ing! He was just a sailor off a sheep, and he gave me a drink and said, “Swine, that’s all!” But it was a Hol- stein of t and when [ awoke he was Guern-sey? St Lo (angrily): L will find the cow- ard, and give him a lamb on the ear! (Enter Timotuy). Timotuy (rushing upon scene): Hold! 1 will be the fodder of the child! Maize (101th emotion): My harrow! | (They embrace). Muze (weeping): Ah, T have been so sod—so sod! (weeping too): there—soil right, soil right! St Lo: Well, T woodshed a tear my self, but T guess you toolshed plenty. How about a nice hot coop of tea to celebrate? Tiotity Tiseotny (to Muze): Come, dry those steers, and ge put the cattle on! Tie Cinmn: Say, T have cotton tired of waiting around! Bring on the wedding bales! Timotuy: Now that he can be on the social rooster, wattle we name him? Maze (fondly): We will call him “Hennery!” (Curtain). There, | Froon Warner: Hovse Dick: go buy, What are you doing here? Oh, just watching the clouds Life And here’s what it didn’t do to KRO-FLITE Tue Guillotine hits a golf ball such a ter- tific smack that only one ball in this world can withstand it. That one is Kro-Flite. What is this murderous device--this Guillotine? It is a scientific reproduction of the blow hit by a powerfully swung golf club—it is a heavily weighted steel knife that crashes on a golf ball exactly as your clubhead does on a badly topped iron shot The photograph above shows the Kro- Flite and five other famous balls after they had fallen afoul of the Guillotine in a labo- ratory test. On five of them—five of the finest balls the world produces—the falling blade cut right through the cover. So com- pletely were these balls ruined that even a caddy would pass them by. But in the Kro-Flite, the Guillotine found a ball that would not call “quits.” The blade dealt the Kro-Flite as brutal a blow as you ever will ask a golf ball to take —and left a scarcely visible dent! This same Kro-Flite easily could play more than the 72 holes for which Spalding guarantees it If this were a one-time test, it might be a case for the Skeptic's Society. But every reputable ball in the world—including, of course, the Kro-Flitehas been tested on the Gyillotine pot once, but hundreds of times. The story is always the same. In all these tests the Guillotine never yet has been 5 Here’s what the guillotine did to five famous golf balls able to cut a Kro-Flite Ball. Ir never has failed to cut any other. Try the Kro-Flite! It comes cither io the exclusive new Multidor marking or in plain white—dimple and mesh. Your profes- sional, your Sports Dealer, or any Spalding Store will supply you. t 2 Ae ABOUT DISTANCE Spalding makes two golf balls—the “Spalding” and the *Kro-Flite.”" The “Spalding” Ball és recognized, by golf's leading amateurs and professionals, as the Jongest ball in the world. Yet the *Kro-Flite’'is only a trifling distance bebind this longest of all balls—a fact established time after time in comparative Driving Machine tests at Chicopee, Mass., Pinehurst, N.C.. and Putney, England. In this Kro-Flite, the golfing world sees the first ball ever to combine maximum durability and first-grade distance. © 1929 KRO-FLITE sail 5 cents comicbooks.com