Life Magazine – June 16, 1927 (# 2328) – Movie Stars

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Cover : Bored looking actor and actress in front of the camera, the camera man has the kind of camera that has to be cranked by hand, “The Daily Grind,” art by Leonard T. Holton.

– MOVIE NUMBER (much humor pertaining to movies).
– Full page color ads for Chandler-Cleveland Motors (New Royal Eight, nice art with blue car, person on white horse in courtyard of huge white house, Everybody admires a magnificent automobile), Willys-Knight Six (2 complete cars in one, the 70 Willys-Knight Cabriolet Coupe, blue-grey car on crème background), Camel Cigarettes (four people ready to go horse back riding, No half-way verdict – Camel is supreme).
– Full page black and white ads for Elco Standardized Cruisers (You’ll drop all cares as you lift the anchor, art by Ernest Walker), Mimeograph (art with owls), Eastman Kodak (Cine-Kodak movie camera), Spaulding Kro-Flite golf balls (with Tony Spinella, greens keeper).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Fred G. Cooper (Cathedral of the motion picture), Charles Dana Gibson (Our Boy, young man with Belgian girl and Lady Liberty), Leonard T. Holton (The censure : proving that one cannot be too careful of what one says to a child), C. H. Sykes (Lindbergh – Blah, they’ll soon forget him! He’s only a hero!), James Montgomery Flagg (The private life of Thomas Mix, he is a cowboy and it shows him shooting his pistol all day long),
– Two page centerspread art “Movie Opportunities of History (not signed).
– Some current events include : Charles Lindbergh is apparently a teetotaler, Calling Congress to vote money for flood relief, Life staff member James S. Metcalfe has died.
– And much, much more.