Life Magazine – September 1933 (# 2582) – Playing Card Royalty Romance

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Cover : Playing card, the Queen of diamonds meets the King of hearts, “C’mon up sometime,” art by Lester Gaba.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (with art of mother and daughter in car), Graham cars (Safer for every member of your family), Chevrolet, Color advertising in Life magazine, Camel cigarettes (with pilot A. M. Wilkins for Trans-continental and Western Air, W. Niedernhofer).
– Eight pages of Life’s Fresh Air Fund Summer Supplement, listing donors and their home town, plus many nice photos of kids at the camps.
– Full page black and white ads for Ethyl gasoline (art by Frederic Stanley), Pontiac, Listerine, Kings Beer, Ridgways Teas.
– Special section : IMPOSSIBLE MAGAZINE MERGERS 4 : Photoplay and Woman’s Home Companion with sample color cover (Mitzi Mordecai) and two sample interior pages.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jose Schorr and Albert Viale (Predictions for September), S. Berman (clay model of a boxer, mightiest Roman), Russell Patterson (I vouldn’t give you a nickel for twenty yards, Morris … crowded beach scene), Dorothy McKay (Color : Smash him, Honey; the lights are with us), Edwina (Sinbad : the last laugh), Harry Haenigsen (Our own newsreel), illegible (Speaking of a century of progress : kidnaper special), H. M. Bateman (The unknown vintage … from PUNCH).
– Some current events include : Pilot Wiley Post flies around the world, Nose shaping device called the Sculptron invented by Paul Bieles of Sheboygan Wisconsin, Prohibition repealNational Industrial Recovery Act.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1933 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!