Life, 1929-01-18 · page 19 of 44
Life — January 18, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A magician/conductor performs a trick for an audience of seated onlookers. The caption jokes: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that in this trick I delay a little too—o—so much!" This appears to satirize a magician whose act is running long or whose tricks aren't working smoothly—a commentary on entertainment or performance failures. **Bottom Cartoon ("The Expert"):** A burglar struggles with a safe while his wife offers unhelpful advice. He's tried hammers and a sledge; she suggests letting the baby play with it. This is domestic humor mocking both the burglar's incompetence and the wife's absurd "solutions"—typical of period comic strips about foolish criminals or marriage dynamics. Both rely on visual slapstick humor common to 1920s Life magazine.
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Consuror: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that in this trick I delay a little too—o—o much! NEW YORK CITY—According to an editorial in that paper, the // Martello had its December 2, 1928, issue barred by the postal authorities because of articles it had concerning General Italo Balboa, Fascist General. The Il Martello is still laboring under that foreign illusion that this is a free country. NEW YORK CITY — Lieutenant Patrick Fitzgibbons is appointed by Grover. Whalen to lead New York’s strong-arm squad. His particular duty will be to prevent disorderly conduct on the streets and in the subways. Lieutenant Fitzgibbons is leader of the New York Police Glee Club, How about singing in the streets, Patrick? WASHINGTON, D. C.—A contract providing for construction of remedial works to maintain and improve the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls has been signed in Ottawa by the United States and Canada, the state department announces. Well, we should get some nice new souve- nir postal cards out of it anyway. WASHINGTON—Recording the na- tional death rate for 1927 at 11.4 persons Per 1,000 population, the Department of Commerce reported today that Idaho had the lowest rate of the States. Is it because people wouldn't be seen dead there? WESTFIELD, Mass.—State troopers who last night raided the rooming house of George Floyd of Blandford in search of liquor found none, but they found four- teen sticks of dynamite. Well, that's enough for a good blowout. 17 NEW YORK, N. Y.—Miss Betty Wil- son, college girl and swimmer, set a world record last week for uninterrupted talking by a woman. With the exception of a few minutes for. eating the girl had been engaged in a monologue for forty-two hours. She is one of six women contestants in the so-called “word rodeo” at the Seventy-first Regi- ment Armory in Park Avenue. What @ wonderful wife for some poor fellow. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Mrs. Herbert Hoover is the “ideal Girl Scout” and will be the first active Scout worker to occupy the White House. Mrs. Evelyn Wight | Allen, Brooklyn Girl Scout Commissioner and college room-mate of Mrs. Hoover at \Stanford University, told about 100 girls yesterday. Can she light a cigarette with one match? | BOSTON—Men will wear blue shoes |the coming year if the hopes of show stylists are fulfilled. To match their noses. Tue Expert. Burciar to His Wire: I've tried blasting and T've tried a sledge hammer, but I'm damned if I know how to get this safe open. Wire: Don't give up; let the baby play with it. comicbooks.com