Life, 1929-06-21 · page 32 of 40
Life — June 21, 1929 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines travel advertising, humor, and contests typical of 1929 Life magazine. **Main Content:** The dominant left section advertises French Line steamship travel, promoting France as "The Sportsman's Paradise" for hunting. It emphasizes superior European game preservation versus America, luxury amenities, and the journey from Paris to English ports—classic 1920s affluent tourism marketing. **Humor:** A small cartoon by Tom Sims jokes about liver and onions "getting a divorce"—a dated pun on celebrity divorces, reflecting 1920s tabloid culture. Below, an Abbott's Bitters ad features a couple where rearranging furniture goes unnoticed, implying domestic monotony. **Right Section:** Life's short-story contest ($5,000 prize) solicits fiction from readers, with judges including editor Ray Long and humorist Robert Benchley. The "Came the Dawn" illustration appears to be satirical fiction accompanying the contest announcement. **Overall:** This is a typical magazine page blending aspirational travel, domestic humor, and reader engagement contests—reflecting 1920s middle to upper-class American leisure culture.
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The Sportsman’s Paradise Sais game in the region around and south of Paris... better shooting than in America, because preservation has been understood for a thousand years. *¥ Roebuck, wild boar, deer, in the forests of the Ardennes, the Argonne, the Jura, Savoie and Alsace...English fox-hunting seems tame after that. #¥ The season opens from August 20th to September 10th, according to location. -¥ Nominal license fee, no legal limits or restrictions for non-residents.*¥-Every au- tumn ailing across “the longest gangplank in the world” becomes a Sportsman's Special... Paris itself for gay- ety and cuisine all the way across...calling at Plym- outh, England, the FIFTH day...a few hours later the covered pier at le Havre...a three-hour boat-train... straight to the heart of the city Napoleon loved so well. earrench Line e Information from any authorised French Line Agent or werite direct to 29 State Street, New Yorks City Since liver has made such a grand success in the world, financially as well as socially, we look for liver and onions to get a divorce. —Tom Sims for Kay Features. p} BITTERS Tones the Stomach Improves the Appetite Aids Digestion “Don't you notice Somple of Bitters by anything different?” mail 25 cts. “Naw!” C. W. ABBOTT & CO. “Why, I've shifted Baltimore, Md. the furniture around!” Short Stories of Life $5000 PRIZES FIRST PRIZE SECOND PRIZE THIRD $1500 $300" ——JUDGES—. RAY LONG MERLE CROWELL . Editor, Cosmoroutas Macazing American Macazine ROBERT BENCHLEY The Editors of Lire will award $5,000 for the best short stories published in Lire during 1929. They may be light fiction, timely burlesques, detective or mystery stories, or humorous stories, but they must be short: six to seven hundred words. One story will appear each week and regular rates will be paid, on acceptance, in addition to the award, for each story published. Any number of stories may be entered by any one writer, and al! will stand equal chance in the final awards. Manuscripts must be typewritten, on one side of the paper, the pages numbered, with the name and address of the author on every page, and should be accom: panied by return postage. Address manuscripts to SHORT STORY EDITOR LIFE, 598 Madison Ave., New York City —and College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail AME the grinning sun... your tongue fuzzier than a top hat... and you faintly rec- ollect a cadenza of laughter anda tinkle of glasses. If you're wise, you'll pour a glass of College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail. Quickly you'll find new vigor... that un- diluted juice of sun-ripened to- matoes blended with spices and lemon...allreadytoserve :—-» ++.“hits the spot.” Food 7-— shopsesellit...drugstores serveit. College Inn Food Products Co., Chicago. Lobster 0 la Newberg COLLEGE INN TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL comicbooks.com