Life, 1929-03-29 · page 21 of 36
Life — March 29, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This is a satirical gossip and humor column from Life magazine documenting Manhattan social scenes and entertainment. The page includes several cartoon vignettes: **"Reunion"**: Describes a World War veteran attending a regimental gathering in Montreal, mentioning a buddy named Joe Shears who later charges a $86.50 taxi ride back to New York to "the war debt"—satirizing post-war financial chaos. **"Hidden Beauties Club"**: A humorous column launching a club featuring attractive women, including a blonde waitress and performers from the show "Spring is Here." **"Manna-about-Town"**: Social commentary on ladies roller-skating in Central Park and theater/entertainment gossip, mocking pretentious theatrical types and orchestras. **"Sh!"**: Describes "the Zoo," a Prohibition-era speakeasy decorated with wild animal paintings, where cocktails are humorously named after animals ("Alligators," "Pythons"). The cartoons and text reflect 1920s urban sophistication, theatrical culture, Prohibition-era speakeasies, and post-WWI social life in New York City.
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wine shop and groggery of Anthony vous man... f Roniset went up in a flaming rum __ signs on the wall i) punch the other morning ... four warn customers V not to feed the animals, but the night we were in there an alcoholic was trying to feed a pink elephant ships an hour are now running on the Hoboken ferry line... Mrs. Thornhill has returned from England with the new styles in corsets... Thomas Gibson’s Piano Warehouse at 61 Barclay has gone in for Patent Harps in a big way . . . Senor Segura peanuts, has composed a Grand March dedi- cated to our new President, General Hidden leckeon: Beauties Reunion Herewith is launched the Hid- den Beauties Club +.and as a starter the blonde waitress at the front table in one of the Fifth Avenue Childs... also the fourth gel from the right in “Spring is Here”. Tom Patterson (brother of Russell Ziegfeld Patterson) World War Vet and owner of a Distinguished Conduct Medal, who was shot in thirty-six places (names and addresses on re- quest) went up to Montreal recently to attend a reunion of his regiment .. twenty-two survivors met and fought the war all over again, and among them was Joe Shears, a buddy . 5 . . Cc eS of Tom's and a demon taxi driver PRICHMAN + Manna-about-town The ladies of the en- semble now go in for roller skating in Central Park in the early hours of the morning +++ four song hits in the new show “Spring is Here” (see Confidential Guide) . . . the last gasp in parties— hire a sight-seeing bus and give a per- sonally conducted tour to Hoboken... - after a barrage of French 75s Joe insisted on escorting his old pal back to New York ... which he did in his taxi... the meter read $86.50 which was put on the war debt... after a two-day whirl in the big city Joe went back to Canada with the meter still clicking away. Sh! The Zoo is located in the Forties - +. the walls of this very original and startling speakeasy are covered with paintings of wild and weird ani- mals of every de- scription fer a few “Alliga- tors” or “Pythons” (cocktails) one 1as the impression of being in the nidst of the ungle ... it is 10 place for a ner- New York Life Obituary—The Che s- terfield died last week of Revenuemonia ... new combination that is nobody's business ... strawberry juice and rye . . . who had the bright idea of putting Glenn Hunter in musical comedy? ... Ray Long says that he has been to the theatre with Odd McIntyre about five hundred times and has agreed with him just about once . . . and adds “One of us must be a darned good critic!” . . . if there’s a better orchestra than Paul Whiteman’s I'd like to hear it... the “brasses” have more kick than a horse race « « » Chevalier is knocking them over at the Midnight Frolic... so is Gladys Glad. comicbooks.com