Life Magazine – July 13, 1922 (# 2071) – W. T. Benda – Masks

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Cover : Women’s faces and masks, Masks, art by W. T. Benda.

– Full page color ads for Michelin Cord tires and Michelin Ring Shaped Tubes, Fatima cigarettes.

– Full page black and white ads for F. B. Stearns motor cars, Eastman Kodak (3 people on a steamer in a busy port), Kelly-Springfield cord tires (art by Fellows).

– Whispers to wives, apropos of knowledge.

– My trip abroad, an imaginary travelogue by William Randolph Hearst.

– Full page art or cartoon art by illegible (varghle?)(Shapes, people at the beach), William H. Walker (Cut it off, Mr. President, before it is too late – branch named Daugherty), A. B. Frost (The second-hand cello and the early morning lesson).

– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, Gate Receipts, young man kissing his girl at her gate as he drops her off.

– Some current events include : Conan Doyle has gone home after contributing much to this country, Mine massacre in Illinois, Field Marshal Wilson was murdered in London, Walter Rathenau was murdered in Berlin, Coal strike, Preparing a list of the 12 greatest women in the United States.

– Quarter page Colt fire arms ad with gun in office desk drawer, With a Colt at hand you the protection of the “World’s Right Arm.”

– And so much more!  1922 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!