Life, 1929-07-12 · page 45 of 48
Life — July 12, 1929 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page mixes advertising with humor content typical of 1920s *Life* magazine. **Left side:** A Canadian Pacific cruise advertisement emphasizes luxury travel planning, promoting a 137-day world cruise aboard the Empress of Australia, visiting exotic locations (Bangkok, Peking, Cairo, India). The illustration shows travelers with luggage and globes, celebrating elaborate itinerary planning. **Center:** A title-writing contest offering $1,000 in prizes for clever, short captions (max 20 words) for an unnamed picture on page 42. Standard contest rules apply. **Right side:** Brief humorous quips satirize modern life—wireless warfare, cramped apartments with kitchens only at delicatessens, and a robbery victim's dark joke about preferring "your money or your wife" punchlines. **Bottom right:** A Dunlop golf ball advertisement promoting their imported "black" dimpled balls at one dollar, using the rhetorical question format common in period advertising to suggest superior quality. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture, leisure travel aspirations, and gentle domestic humor.
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2838838 38 32332 ssssssss23 8 3333 &2Ii323 8 838383 3822 V V HAT A MARVEL of planning! AFTER seven years of World Cruises... this World Cruise! Alluring odd corners... Bangkok, Sumatra, Formosa. The Java stay stretched to in- clude the Boroboedoer. 5¥¢days allotted to Peking and Great Wall region. A week in Japan. Bethlehem for Christmas Eve «..Cairo for New Year’s Eve. Up-country India... Delhi... Agra... Fatehpur-Sikri in cool January. The cruise unfolds, in pro- gressive panorama, the five great world-epochs of Italy, Greece, Egypt, India, China. The ship again is the Empress of Australia, 21,850 gross tons. Marble bath suites. Commodi- ous single cabins. From New York, Dec. 2, for 137 days. OTHER WINTER CRUISES South America-Africa...Jan. 21 Mediterranean... Feb. 3...13 West Indies, Dec. 23, Jan. 10, Feb.11 The alluring details are in booklets. If you have a good travel-agent, ask him. Informa- tion also from any Canadian Pacific office. New York, 344 Madison Ave....Chicago, 71 E. Jackson Blvd.... Montreal, 201 St. James St., West... and 30 other cities in U.S, and Canada. Canadian Pacific World's Greatest Travel System Life Lire’s Title Contest (See Page 42) CONDITIONS Lire will pay $1,000 in prizes for the best titles for the picture on Page 42. By “best” is meant the cleverest and shortest. The Editors of Lire will be the judges. Titles may be original or quotations from well known authors. They must not exceed twenty words, Contestants may submit as many titles as_ they wish, but none will be returned. The contest is now open to every- body and will close midnight July 31. Should two or more persons submit the same winning title, each one will be awarded the full amount of the prize tied for. The final award will be announced as carly as possible after the close of the contest and checks will be sent simultaneously with the announcement of the awards, Address all titles to Lire’s Title Con test, 598 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. CONTEST CLOSES JULY 31. According to Professor Bramer the next war will be carried on by wire- less. Judging by my neighbor's set it has been going on for some time. —Passing Show. The average modern apartment con- sists of two bedrooms, a bath room, a living room and a large kitchen down at the delicatessen. —Tom Sims for Kay Features. The man who had been held up by bandits was very bitter about it. “For a moment,” he said, “my heart leaped with joy. I thought they said: ‘Your money or your wife.’ ” —Tit-Bits. The man who got tired of carrying a car full of road maps can now go anywhere in the world by referring to a globe on his radiator, f HAVE YOU EVER/ HEARD ANYONE ASK/ FOR A BETTER GOLF-BALL THAN A DUNLOP? THE IMPORTED “BLACK” meshed or dimpled marked ONE DOLLAR comicbooks.com