Life Magazine – March 8, 1923 (# 2105) – W.T. Benda – More Masks.

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Cover : An extravagant scene from a party with a masked man and a lovely young lady who has just removed her mask.  Perhaps this is Mardi Gras.  Art by the excellent W. T. Benda.

– Full page color ads for Cantrell & Cochrane Ginger Ale, Velvet Smoking Tobacco (with great art of a golfer, not signed).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Unknown (Correspondence school for fox hunters), Oliver Herford (The impossibility of drying out the Capital building, prohibition), James Montgomery Flagg (You and your cigarettes).
– Two page centerspread art by J. R. Shaver, “Gee! I’m glad I ain’t a horse,”  man standing in blizzard looking at horse standing in blizzard.
– Some current events include : British debt, Franco-German problem, “We say goodbye to the 67th Congress without undue violence of grief.”
– Full page ads for New Chandler Six with the Pikes Peak Motor, Phoenix hosiery, Simmons mattresses (the purple label), Lincoln Motor Company (Enduring quality), Statler Hotels (the headwaiter and his captains).
– Humorous little piece “Sounder discusses the National Pocket Flask.
– “A radical is a man who looks down on those above him.”
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1923 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!