Life, 1929-04-05 · page 41 of 56
Life — April 5, 1929 — page 41: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Life magazine contains primarily **advertising and entertainment listings** rather than political satire. The main visual element is a **Squibb's Shaving Cream advertisement** featuring a stylized illustration of a man shaving in a hurried, exaggerated manner—reflecting the page's humorous headline "RIGHT IN THE WHIRL," which jokes about modern life's hectic pace. The ad copy plays on 1920s anxieties about time management, suggesting that busy professionals need reliable grooming products. The rest of the page lists **Broadway entertainments, books, dance numbers, and records**—typical Life magazine content from the prosperous late 1920s. Notable are references to current shows like "Spring Is Here" and "Follow Thru," and book recommendations including Sinclair Lewis's *Dodsworth*. The **Cunard Line advertisement** promotes travel to France, appealing to affluent readers interested in European tourism. There is **no significant political or satirical content** on this particular page—it's primarily commercial and entertainment-focused.
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ee sie aed ? RIGHT IN THE WHIRL SOME of these very full days hardly leave us any time. Have to gallop through shaving with a hustle—and trust to luck—or, if | you’re in the know, to Squibb’s Shaving Cream. Time doesn’t matter when you brush up with Squibb’s. It always does a cool, thorough, comfortable | job of shaving. Try it. You'll find your razor | singing a song of smoothness. What a real surprise you'll find in the mellow comfort—the sooth- ing freshness of a good Squibb thave! All drug stores sell it. 40c a generous tube. © 1929 by E. R. Squibb & Sons A SHAVING CREAM BY SQUIBB’ Confider#fial Guide | (Continued \J from Page 34) Gutnan’s, 203 West s4th. Whoopee. C.$4.00- 5.00, H.Carl. Mipwianr Frotic, New Amsterdam Theatre. Helen Morgan Chevalier, and a big check. °C.$6.60. Renvezvous, Winter Garden Theatre. Clay- ton, Jackson and Durante, the funniest birds in town. C.$3.00-4.00. H.Leon. Seactave, St, Regis Hotel, Vincent Lopez speaking. *C.$1.50-3.00, H.Charles. Vitta Vater, 10 East 60th, Collegiate. *C.$2.00-3.00. H Jean. Books Dovswoarn (Harcourt, Brace), by Sinclair Lewis—A penetrating but sympathetic ex- amination of American marriage, with some views on Americans abroad for good meas- ure. Enthusiastically recommended as the finest thing Lewis has ever done. Spirs (Putnam), by Thea von Harbou—The author of Metropolis constructs a big mys- tery story convincing in detail. Tite Crapte or Tur Deer (Simon & Schus- ter), by Joan Lowell—The vigorous and pleasantly vulgar autobiography of a young lady brought up on the South Seas. Love tx Cnicaco (Harcourt, Brace), by Charles | Walt—The revealing diary of a professional | killer. Humprus House (Little, Brown), by Jean- nette Phillips Gibbs—Fine novel of mar- riage, monotony, and how one woman es caped it. Ivo Tux Ain (Crime Club), by Horatio | Winslow and Leslie Quirk—Racy mystery involving a magician, a medium, and the al leged spirit of a dead crook which does in a famous criminologist. Unfair ending, but | worth reading. Dance Numbers (Sheet Music) “Just a New Kind of Old Fashioned Girl” (no show) Along Came Sweetness” (no show) ng of My Heart” (Spring Is Here) Yours Sincerely” (Spring Is Here) “Red Hot Trumpet” (Spring Is Here) “Honey” (no show) “1 Could Give Up Anything But You" (Fol- low Thru) “Fashionette” (no show) Me and the Clock” (no show) Dance of the Paper Doll" (no show) “Raise the Dust” (“Lady Fingers") Susianna” (no show) “Song of Songs” (Lady of the Pavements) | Records | 1 Want To Be Bap—(2) Burroy Up Your Overcoat (Victor) Two numbers from “Follow Thru,” sung | a bit differently by Helen Kane. Atoxe Came Sweerness—(2) A Love Tacr oF Atsace Lorraine (Columbia) (1) Very light and peppy, with vocal chorus. (2) Slow and dreamy. My Lucky Star—(2) You Wovrpy’r Foot Me, Worn You? (Brunswick) Two of the more melodious numbers from “Follow Thru.” Lovisiana—(2) Ratyrist Kino (Okeh) Very extra special hot, both of them. 1 Faw Down ann Go Boom—(2) Precious Limite Tino Catten Love (Victor) (1) Nonsense by George Olsen's boys. (2) Music by his band. Explore the Real France ++. via Cunard Beyond Paris the real France, on the te, plar- bordered roads, that Tead, as straight as the Roman legions marched, to chateaux, vine- ards and cathedrals. Go to heims, Chartres, Blois, go to Mont St. Michel and Carcassonne! Stop at inns so clean that the copper shines like gold. Lunch in a garden, where a chef will make ome- lettes that angels might envy. Taste champagne that has never been moved two miles from its vineyards. Cross Cunard to Cherbourg: the shortest and quickest way to France. And, if you like, shorten your stay in Paris. For life in the Aquitania or the Mauretania is as ‘cosmopolite’ as life in Paris . . . the food will be like the food at the Ritz or the Crillon, and you'll meet the same people. Cross Cunard ... have your Paris- and-London in one, on the crossing ... and then seek out the real France, that has not been ‘internationalized’. TO FRANCE AND ENGLAND MAURETANIA April 10-May 1- May 22 AQUITANIA April 17+ Mey 8° May 29 BERENGARIA April 24-Msy15-JuneS CUNARD LINE @ See Your Local Agent THE SHORTEST BRIDGE TO EUROPE comicbooks.com