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Life Magazine – May 1934 (# 2590) – Dr. Seuss
$125.00
Magazine Condition : Good (crossword filled)
Out of stock
Description
Cover : The incomparable Dr. Seuss depicts a bird bragging how hard it is to have an egg … to an ape with a new baby.
– Full page color ads for Johnnie Walker Scotch (with art of smart gentleman in red coat), General Dual Balloon blowout-proof tires (with art of aviatrix), John Jameson Irish Whiskey, Grace Cruise Lines ships (with photo of minimum rate stateroom), General Motors Cars (body by Fisher, with photos of man and woman on the phone), Camel cigarettes.
– Full page black and white ads for Dixie Belle distilled dry gin (with lovely artwork of couple in evening garb), Paul Jones and Four Roses whiskies (it takes old-fashioned whiskey to make old-fashioned cocktails), White star line (learn the secret of the Olmpic’s lure! Signed, but not quite legible. I think it might be Edward Cy Klauck = Edward A. Klauck), Emerson’s Bromo-Seltzer (art signed but not quite legible), Martini and Rossi Vermouth (art by Gregor Duncan), 1934 Chevrolet (with photo of Lake Forest bride-to-be), Crab Orchard whiskey (with art of men in underwear), Budweiser beer (with art, Good times coming, boss!), Airflow Chrysler cars (air drag vs air flow), Listerine toothpaste, Gooderham & Worts whiskey (G & W), Boyden-Minuth Company (Jewelry craftsmen, monograms).
– Small cartoon by Dr. Seuss, the Tangled yarn problem … these members of the Engineer’s Club lost their lives in an attempt to unsnarl 200 yards of fishing line.
– PHOTOFIBS by Bonte, the political front (think of this as early photoshopping).
– Small photo of a Life’s Fresh Air Camp counselor in Native American garb with some of the boy campers.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Geo T. Eggleston (stately and bored older couple watching younger couples dance lasciviously, they do the same once they get HOME), Conrad Massaguer (Wife telling husband to let the kids have the comics, some color), Milt Gross (The guy from Mars), Edwina (beginning of a series : Is Sinbad being kidnaped?).
– 2/3 page ad for Pine Knoll Camp for girls and Camp Ossipee for boys, both in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, with photos.
– Full page color art by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, Our Foolish Contemporary, man using billboards to create privacy at his house along a major road.
– A current event : “Moscow-on-the-Potomac” … the sensational letter from Dr. Wirt accusing the Brain Trust of being hired hands of the Kremlin.
– And much more 1934 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!
