Life Magazine – May 27, 1915 (# 1700) – French Number

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Cover : Six maidens holding guns and representing Architecture, Science, Art, Literature, Music and Industry with French flag in the background, “The Color Guard,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– VIVE LA FRANCE NUMBER.
– Full page color Omar Turkish Blend cigarettes ad with excellent, if rather garish, Middle eastern art, “All the Sea’s self should heed a pebble cast.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Norman Price (Victor talking machine ad), Angus MacDonall (The conqueror … fancy French lady), Paul Goold (with poem “To France” by Leolyn Louise Everett), Harry Grant Dart (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing … Secretary of the Navy Daniels reading books titled “How to tell ships from automobiles” and such), William H. Walker (Our nursery days : a friend in need), Charles Dana Gibson (Aren’t there a couple of young men in there with Clara?), William H. Walker (The law as to pirates … man hanging), Donald McKee (The German pamphleteer sits safe in his retreat and …), C. F. Peters (The campaign).
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, “Joffre.”
– Some current events include : The President writes a “W’ot t’ ‘ell” letter to the Kaiser about the Lusitania, The chucking of the Kaiser’s representative effects out of the Chapel of the Garter at Windsor, Frightfulness in Belgium, Von Tirpitz has destroyed the honorable standing of the German navy.
– Full page color Fatima Turkish blend cigarettes ad with signed art (signature not quite legible, something like Freydiaz), Two men smoking at large office desk, “Distinctively Individual – anywhere.”
– Much more.