Life, 1929-03-29 · page 17 of 36
Life — March 29, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine contains brief news-style humor items and one cartoon. The cartoon depicts someone who has crashed through a window into a garden, landing in a rose bush. The caption reads: "Haw, haw! I landed right in his favorite rose bush!" The joke appears to be slapstick humor about an accident—someone falling from an upper floor (visible in the background) and ending up in a garden below. The humor relies on physical comedy: the irony that despite the violent fall, the person lands in something soft (a rose bush), and the homeowner's amusement at the specific misfortune of it being *his* cherished roses that cushioned the impact. The surrounding news items are brief satirical snippets about international and domestic topics from the era, mixing the absurd with the mundane.
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BARCELONA, Spain—A_ dealer here is offering exclusive family crests through the mail “to a limited num- ber of Americans”. The price is only $500 per crest! aL PARIS—M. Deltoro is offering di- vorces by mail to American clients. Results are assured within eight days, and payments can be arranged for on the installment plan. aL JUAREZ, Mexico—The Mexican army fights on “Chile Con Carne.” Truckloads of brilliant-hued cans marked “Red-Hot Chile” were the baggage federal defenders carried away to their internment camp at El Paso. LONDON—A dispatch from Wel- lington, New Zealand, says that Lieu- tenant Richard Brophy, second in com- mand of the Byrd Antarctic Expedi- tion, is resigning his position. He probably ran out of cheery radio talks. aL TEHERAN, Persia—In a moderni- zation of Persia, the women are de- manding the right to make the ac- quaintance of future husbands before marriage. aL LONDON—The Prince of Wales had a good laugh when he and his party were trapped for several minutes in an elevator stalled between floors. Just good clean fun. CETTINJE, Jugoslavia—Miss Stoja Markovich, 19-year-old bandit, has de- cided that marriage pays better than banditry. Miss Markovich, known as the “Balkans’ Beauty Bandit,” has abandoned highway hold-ups for the pay envelope of an unnamed Soviet commissar. She applied to the parish priest of Podgoritza for a birth certif- icate enabling her to contract mar- riage. Merely transferring to another branch of the bandit business. aL BERLIN—A physician has an- nounced a sure cure for hunger striking. He administers an injec- tion of insulin, which gives the faster so voracious an appetite that he cats willy nilly. “Haw, haw! I landed right in his favorite rose bush!” comicbooks.com