Life Magazine – July 1935 (# 2604) – Steeple Chase

Description

Cover : People on horseback jumping a hedge (a la steeple chase) into a flower garden and someone’s gardening tools, art by Gilbert Bundy.

– Full page color Good Year tires ad (Blowouts), General Dual-Balloon tires ad (with lovely art of mother and daughter in yellow convertible going to beach), Seagram’s whiskey ad, Powers reproduction corporation ad (Advertising company, photo of Perroquet suite in the Waldorf Astoria), Mount Vernon whiskey ad, Camel cigarettes ad with Tommy Armour and numerous named sports stars.
– Full page black and white Ipana tooth paste ad (lumberjack), Listerine shaving cream, Ethyl gasoline.
– Full page color artwork, landscape format, “The American Scene 5 : Lord, Heal the Child, by Thomas Hart Benton.
– Full page art or cartoon art by George Eggleston (Very large lady watching polo match finds “hiker’s stool” to be too uncomfortable by itself, so sits on two of them).
– Poem by Ogden Nash, Lament to a wife.
– Multi-page piece by E. Jerome Ellison, Our Native Industries 6 : Loaded dice, marked cards.
– And many small artworks, cartoons, humorous short pieces.
– And much more 1935   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!