Life Magazine – October 21, 1915 (# 1721)

Life Magazine – October 21, 1915 (# 1721)

Cover : “Indian Summer,” Old man pursuing old lady while being serenaded by old satyr on the pan flute and shot at by old cupid, art by Rea Irvin.

– Full page color ads for The Great White Fleet (There the pirates hid their gold), Phoenix Silk Hose (LOVELY: Traffic cop stopping cars for a lady in green to cross the road, art by Mortimer W. Loew, probably), Columbia Records.
– Full page ad for Reed & Barton sterling silver, Packard Motor cars (no art), Goodyear tires (most phenomenal year ever), Johnnie Walker Red (art by Leo Cheney), Franklin Sedan, Multigraph printer (like a mimeograph).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Reginald Bathhurst Birch (Mother, I wish you and father would make up …), William H. Walker (All Hope abandon ye who enter here), Harry Grant Dart (Rich commissioner facing impoverished army), F. G. Cooper (Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall … pork barrel balancing above national disaster), Charles Dana Gibson (Tragic moments : Slimpkins’s fiancée returns to town about sixty pounds heavier), Rodney Thomson (The greatest wonder in the world, love).
– Short Story: When “Kultur” was beaten, by Lieutenant X.
– Short Story: Presumption of innocence, by Lyman Bryson.
– CUTE : half page art by A. B. Walker, “Her Fish Story,” doting parents look on while daughter (with man on a leash) says “I caught it at Newport and it’s that long (arms apart with $10,476,592.98 written in the space).
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by C. W. Kahles, “An Indian Summer,” Native Americans doing all the traditional “white people” summer activities (vertical format).
– Some current events include : Constitutional convention, We are to vote on women’s suffrage in New York, “Votes-for-women, whenever it comes, is probably a step in the direction of government by experts,” President Wilson is soon to be married, Many Americans are afraid their country has not done enough about the war in Europe, Frank Crance boasts that “Uncle Sam is hopelessly bourgeois, fond of minding his own business, anxious to make money.”
– And much, much more.