Life, 1928-12-21 · page 9 of 36
Life — December 21, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "'Twas the Week Before Christmas"** by Victor De Paux This sketch depicts four people in an indoor setting, likely a theatrical or social venue. The humor appears to reference Broadway actors and the theatrical world during the Christmas season—the text mentions actresses like Laura Hope Crews and Katharine Cornell, suggesting this satirizes how theater people socialize and gossip during holidays. **Bottom Cartoons: Two small humorous sketches** about peculiar behaviors—one showing "Crawford taking that peculiar arm exercise" and another about "Getting ready to address Christmas cards." **"Charity at Home" section** presents a brief domestic joke where Paul has lent the family car to Dad. The page's overall tone is light social satire targeting theater culture and middle-class holiday customs of the era.
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ce ‘Twas THE Week Berore CuristMas tearing a herring. A corner is reserved for a group of press agents or advertising solicitors. who would have listeners be- lieve they are newspaper men and many of them are boisterous and phony. Sardi cannot do anything about it, Rowever, but he probably wishes There Was a Law. You may admire your favorite actress in Sardi’s or get a load of how she looks off the stage or how she eats and gabs. Then there’s the type Who Would! and the type Who Wouldn't. Laura Ho Crews breaks her fast there and Kath- arine Cornell, Jeanne Eagels, Margaret Lawrence and other actresses gather to chat and pay one dollar for corn-flakes and cream with bah-nah-nahs. If you want to learn whose reputation is being shattered, then Sardi’s is recom mended at luncheon time. If you'd see New Yorkers in the middle of the night (which is noon), ditto, And if you would see snobs snubbing each other or “yessing” Victor De Pauw each other or panning the other fellow, then don’t miss Sardi’s, for it is plenty of “Why is Crawford taking that peculiar arm exercise?” “Getting ready to address Christmas cards.” fun—provided you are not the party be- ing put in the grease. I suppose every hamlet has its “Sardi’s”” but there cannot be one as interesting as the one on 44th Street, nor is there a hat- check girl as fascinating as Renée Carroll, who has Learned About Life since the pace opened. It was Renée who once abeled a nuisance with a flip crack that he has never been able to live down. She said of the loud-mouthed guy: “He's the type who makes a noise but- toning his coat!” And I'll lay you any odds that if you ever displayed this letter to any of them, they'd say that the crack must have been meant for somebody else. You must come to town again and meet them, God forbid! CHARITY AT HOME Berry: Where's the car, Paul? Paut: I lent it to Dad tonight. comicbooks.com