Life, 1929-04-26 · page 20 of 36
Life — April 26, 1929 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine satirizes summer leisure activities for affluent New Yorkers. The "Going Away?" section mocks why wealthy urbanites flee the city during summer—listing actual dangers like poison ivy, snakes, insects, and gas. The irony is that these "summer flirtations" and escape attempts often fail to improve one's situation. The cartoons illustrate specific Manhattan attractions and activities: Central Park scenes, Grant's Tomb, and various entertainment venues. The "Dinner at Eight" section humorously describes a society matron's dinner party disrupted by an automobile accident—suggesting that even carefully planned social events collapse into chaos. The "Summer Sports" and "Parisian Art" sections continue this satirical tone, mocking both recreational activities and cultural pretensions of the New York elite.
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18 Going Away? EW York City is the greatest A summer resort in the world and don’t let anyone tell you different... ask any Southron gel and see if she don’t tell yo’ all it is! . why go away this summer when you can get all the summer joys with- out any of its killjoys, such as Insects (including the ones in white flan- nels) Poison Ivy, Sunburn, snake bites, crickets, frogs, veranda gos- sips, poison gas, etc., without leav- ing the city limits... why take a chance on one of those summer flirtations that may end up in matrimony! . . . why not make this a_ safety summer and stay home! Summer Sports Here in little old Manhattan you can do any of the things they do up thar in Maine or out thar in South- ampton...you can go boating, fishing, swimming, (See slides by Pat- terson), golfing, croqueting, work in your garden, make love, and much more, conveniently (how can anyone make love with mosquitos biting and frogs croaking and saps playing uke- leles!) and you can do more than that! ... you can go to baseball games, (if you insist on it) prize fights, theatres, night clubs, Art exhibitions, Grant's Tomb, the Al gonguin, Alice Foote McDougal’s, Greenwich Village, the Coffee House, Frank and Jacks, Hubert's Museum, the Aquarium, Times Square, 42nd Street. Gosh, I've gone past my station! and, think of it, the TALK- ING MOVIES! Dinner at Eight A well known society matron re. cently started the A. A. L. C. F. D. which means the Association Against Late Comers for Dinner... the one rule of “The Public be Jammed!” Van Cortlandt Park | the Association was that dinner was to mole started at the scheduled time re- well, the w. k. s. matron thew a big dinner, but unfortunately was tied up in an automobile accident that afternoon and when she arrived home her guests were just finishing her very delicious dinner. Parisian Art The latest addition to the long list of Broadway Phonies is the French Post Card Zk) vendor... he “Row” meos comicbooks.com