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This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment listings**, not political satire. The left side features a **Broadmoor Golf Resort advertisement** showing golfers at a scenic Colorado course. The copy emphasizes luxury ("truly fine hotels simply pile perfection on perfection") and year-round playability—typical 1920s resort marketing targeting affluent Americans. The center and right columns contain entertainment guides: film reviews (noting early "talkies" like Al Jolson's *Singing Fool*), supper club recommendations in New York with pricing, and sheet music listings for popular songs. The right side advertises **French travel** via Railways of France, promoting Biarritz and the Pyrenees as Easter destinations for "the man of average means" who'll "find you're rich...in France"—marketing affordable luxury tourism. **No political content or satire is evident.** This reflects Life's 1920s editorial mix: consumer culture, entertainment, and leisure advertising alongside light social commentary.

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Number One, Sir? DRIVE STRAIGHT foc PIKES PEAK’ EYER landmark about The. } Broadmoor golf course is a scenic wonder that has been painted and photo- graphed and poetized for years. But that doesn’t spoil the golf any! The Ross-built } Broadmoor, course, per- fected by ten’years of con- stant care, is as fast and velvety and sporty as you could wish, while the cli- mate, the scenery and the luxury of one of America’s truly fine hotels simply pile perfection on perfection. The course is enjoyably playable 300, days a year. The hotel and fully equip- ped golf club are always open—and await you. BROADMOOR Let us tell you what the world’s masters of the game say about Broadmoor Golf! ~ Life Confider tial Guide (Continued from Page 26) Tue Barxrr. (50% TAatxinc) First National; One of the best talkies. Milton Sills cap- ably supported by the vocal and physical charms of Betty Compson and Dorothy Mackaill. For adults. Tue Sincinc Foor. (Tarxinc) Warner Bros.; Al Jolson loses his Mammy and_ becomes a father. Heavy and effective; tugs at the heart strings. Al's songs are great. Tue Wostan Dispuren. (Sounn) United dr- madge despite a few indclicate scenes. Jannings. | Our Daxctxo Davenrers. (Souxn) Metro- | Goldwyn; Interesting information about | modern youth with Joan Crawford, John | Mack Brown and Anita Page. Aus Jimary Vatentive. (TaLxino se- veces) Metro-Goldwyn; William Haines as breezy and clever as ever. | Kituinc rie Kinzer, (Sitent stort) U. utes but worth the price of an evening. Marcinxe Ox. (Tatxixe stort) For; Sale in a remarkable character study. Supper Clubs * Dressy. | C Cover Charge. | H Head Waiter, | Anassapon Gritt, Park Avenue at sist. Nice | quict place to dance. * C.$1,50-2.00. Bansev's, 85 West grd. A swell orchestra. C. Livo, 7th Ave, at sand. Very Park Avenue 5.00. H.Cabiati. Moxraarte, 205 West su. Oldest supper | club in town and still popular. C.$3.00. H.Charlie. Hucu-Ho, 35 East sjrd. Nice Place. * C$2.00-3.00. H.George. Geivay’s, 203 West $4th. Whoopee. C.$4.00 5.00. H.Carl. Miravor, 200 West srst. $3.00-4.00. H.Louis. Good show. °C. | Renvezvovs, Winter Garden Theatre. Clay- ton, Jackson and Durante, the funniest men. C.$3.00-4.00. H.Leon, Seactape, St. Regis Hotel, Vincent Lopez speaking. *C.$1.50-3.00. H.Charles. 0-3.00. H.Jean. Dance Numbers (Sheet Music) “Let's Talk About You" (Hello Daady) “Dance Little Lady” (This Year of Grace) “Button Up Your Overcoat” (Follow Thru) “I Want To Be Bad” (Follow Thru) “Anything But You” (Follow Thrt) “Raise the Dust” (Lady Fingers) “Making Whoopee” (IV hoopee) “Fioretta” (Fioretta) “Lover Come Back” (New Moon) “You're Perfect” (Pleasure Bound) “Deep Night” (no show) “L'il Never Ask For More” (no show) (Continued on Page 40) tists: Commendable work by Norma Tal- | Tue Parrior. (Souxp) Parumount; If you | haven't seen this one you've missed the | best picture made in the past year. Emil | d.; Slow motion pictures of a mongoose | killing a cobra. Runs less than fifteen min- | A swell place. | -3.00. H.Arnold. | Beatrice Lillie and Moss and Fontana. | Mipsicut Frouc, New Amsterdam Theatre. | Helen Morgan and a big check. * C.$6.60. | Nuiw Virta Venice, 10 East Goth, Collegiate | a | Mediterranean under a cloudless sky | ...and when you get tired of Napoleon, | here’s where you catch your trout.... Biarritz and the Pyrenees for Easter... then follow spring to the gay northern beaches! | If you’re the man of average means, | you'll find you're rich...in France | ....To travel, to be amused, to en- tertain, to get the cosmopolitan view- joint you've always wanted... how Fitete it needs to cost!...The gayety of Biarritz at Easter with the long waves flashing in the sun... it isn’t reserved for millionaires ...it’s yours....Pau with its solid gold climate and its frieze of diamond mountains offers you health... financially and ph cally both.... Corsica sits in the hue Later on in the spring you can run up | toLeTouquet...and even if the Prince | of Wales is there the price won't keep you out....LaBaule provides you | weekends with a gay Parisian crowd +++-Everywhere you ‘0...for pleasure, culture, rest or just because the whim takes you... you're pleasantly sur- | prisedtofind how faradollarstretches. Information and literature on request RAILWAYS OF FRANCE General Representatives INTERNATIONAL WAGON-LITS, 701 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, OR ANY TOURIST AGENCY comicbooks.com