Life, 1929-07-19 · page 16 of 36
Life — July 19, 1929 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Life magazine page (page 14) contains a humorous section titled "Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers" featuring satirical quotes from famous figures like Henry Ford and Sherwood Anderson on topics like stockings, automobiles, and liquor. The main cartoon (signed "Rebuffier") depicts a golfer's mishap—a wild shot that sends the ball flying dangerously near spectators. The caption parodies the sport's pretensions: a golfer claims he took up golf "for the social contact and not for th' XII—i's exercise!" The "Believe It Or Don't" section contains anecdotes about celebrities and oddities, including Eddie Collins (baseball player), Pete Murphy (streetcar conductor), and a Hollywood director's conference about making "talkies" (early sound films). The satire mocks both the pretensions of leisure activities and the absurdities of early 1920s culture.
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14 Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers Stockingless girls at school should be highly commended. —Bernarr Macfadden. Now lovers who go out in automo- biles do not talk much. —Sherwood Anderson. No one is any good who uses liquor. —Henry Ford. X, And if we have trou- \ bles, let us think of the \ clown in the circus who “Is this the advertising men’s club, takes to his bed at night gentlemen?” with many a bruise x tis peer aswell From what I can glean from books —George Matthew and plays and gossip, I imagine that Adams. any nightclub is about the last yawn . . in unutterable boredom. Believe It Or Don’t —William Lyon Phelps. Three middle-aged matrons sat “There are no fat upon the porch of the Dinwiddie cops in New York.”— Hotel in Watervliet, Mich., on July Police Commis- 8, 1925, from 1:00 until 5:00 and not sioner Whalen. one of them told in detail to the others what her husband liked to cat. At Gillicuddy’s Chop House on Broadway, New York City, at 6:00 P. M., August 3, 1923, a waiter ap- proached a guest, handed him a menu, and made no suggestion that any special dish was very fine that evening. Eddie Collins, the great ball player of the Athletics and White Sox, has never been called “Rip.” Pete Murphy, a street-car conduc- tor of Cincinnati, Ohio, the week of May 6-12, 1919, took a vacation. He did not go riding on a friend's car the entire period. In Hollywood, California, April 12, 1929, the head of a moving pic- ture concern called his director into conference. “We will make a talkie,” said he, “without any theme song.” Dusser: Yes, Thompson, I took up golf for the social contact and not for th’ XI! —I ® exercisel comicbooks.com