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Life Magazine – October 13, 1921 (# 2032) – Maxfield Parrish

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Cover : Beautifully colored artwork of a youth sitting on a rock in a lake, art by the famous and talented Maxfield Parrish.

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Life Magazine – October 20, 1921 (# 2033) – Sailing Adventure

Mark — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:55:47 +0000

Cover : Sailing ships approaching an exotic shore, lovely artwork by the excellent Franklin Booth, one of our favorite artists.

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Life Magazine – September 22, 1921 (# 2029) – Wall Street, Wyeth

Mark — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:45:47 +0000

Cover : Pirates and swashbuckling leader glaring at YOU, “Stand and deliver,” art by the accomplished NC Wyeth = Newell Convers Wyeth.
– WALL STREET NUMBER (this is rather ANTI-Wall Street).
– Full page color ads for Simmons beds, Pierce-Arrow cars (portrait by A. E. Northup, looks like a faintly colorized photo).
– Full page black and white ads for Phoenix hosiery (on trim ankles the luster of silk), Wills Sainte Claire (The molybdenum Car, C. H. Wills of Marysville, Michigan).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (The beginner, A young man is teaching a comely young woman how to golf), Rea Irvin (The tale of the irascible merchant and the heroic office boy), Charles Forbell (The Anglers, Fat men in suits are sitting on the portico of the Stock Exchange and casting fishing lines down into the crowd on the street to catch the unwary), F. G. Cooper (The adventures of Solomon Grundy), Paul Stahr (Tell me not in mournful numbers, man explaining the current stock prices)
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “Disturbing the Peace,” a prospective train passenger comes to a railroad station where the station master is napping, the tracks are overgrown with a cow laying in them and chickens running around.
– Some current events include : There is only feeble confidence anywhere in the governmental and economic bases on which rests the apparatus of current life, Stocks had a rise out of the encouraging badness of the cotton crop, Very many important concerns (including most of the railroads) are living partly on their savings or their credit, The New York World is reporting on a dangerous organization named the Ku Klux Klan, Sinn Fein in Ireland, Judge Landis is condemned for being a baseball judge while receiving a salary as a Federal Judge.
– “People wonder how long the money that they have been used to living on will be forthcoming, and those who have invested funds, even in the most conservative securities, wish they had them in something less liable to suffer from bad business.”
– Cute half page comic artwork by G. Burr Inwood, a motorist who has just had an accident is berating the motorcycle cop, “A fine traffic cop you are! If you’d arrested me for speedin’, like you should, I wouldn’t a run into that poor fella.”
– And much, much more.

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Life Magazine – December 8, 1921 (# 2040) – F. X. Leyendecker – Harem Girl

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:45:07 +0000

Cover : Very attractive art with harem girl reading note from admirer, “Between the Lines,” art by F. X. Leyendecker.

– Full page color Colgate products ad with letters from customers.
– Full page art or cartoon art by John Held Jr. (The White Pearl), Charles Dana Gibson (To Marjorie Rambeau), Gluyas Williams (The Censor), H. T. Webster (Howdy Ossifers), Angus MacDonall (Hey mister! Did ye make de chimbley bigger?).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Grounds for divorce).
– Some current events include : The conference, Mr. Hughes’ abrupt and startling plan for cutting down the Navy, Battleship Maryland, Airplanes and bombs in the progressive stage, Old Soak’s history.
– Full page color Murad Turkish cigarettes ad with Santa on a reindeer.
– Full page color Victrola ad, Look under the lid!
– And so much more! 1921 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

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Life Magazine – December 15, 1921 (# 2041) – C. Coles Phillips – Traveling Lady

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:43:16 +0000

Cover : Woman standing by her suitcase reading a sad letter, “Bag and baggage,” lovely art by Coles Phillips.

– Full page color Great White Fleet Caribbean cruise ad with art of fort in Havana.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Marilyn Miller), R. M. Crosby (And then on the fifth green), H. T. Webster (The known soldier), Gluyas Williams (Portrait of a nervous man buying a stamp in a modern post office), C. Clyde Squires (Competition : Santa and Stork with baby both at Chimney).
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson (Oh Gramp! See what Santa Claus brought to Bossie).
– Some current events include : International conference, Mr. H. G. Wells and his views on the conference, Association of nations, Russia is a tremendous problem, Suppression of poison gas, bombers and submarines, Gallant Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion jumps off a steamer on the way to Havana, care of war veterans, American Relief Association.
– Full page color Prudential Insurance ad with man getting out of taxi at a home, nighttime winter scene, signed with initials CFM or GM probably.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – December 22, 1921 (# 2042) – Herbert Paus – Mistletoe

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:41:37 +0000

Cover : Young couple assisting older man in hanging the mistletoe, “The conspirators,” absolutely charming art by the excellent Herbert Paus.

– Full page color Fatima cigarettes ad, signed clearly but I do not recognize it, ends in ‘ards.
– Full page art or cartoon art by H. T. Webster (Aw, you can’t fool me! You’re the League of Nations!), Charles Dana Gibson (The top of the morning to you), Gluyas Williams (Travel – 1921), Charles Forbell (The perfect Christmas)
– Two page centerspread art by J. R. Shaver (Shopping), two little street kids and dog looking in a store window stuffed with toys.
– Some current events include : The trouble between Ireland and England, How are the starving Russians to be fed?, American Relief Administration.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – December 29, 1921 (# 2043) – Rea Irvin – Balloon Man

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:39:53 +0000

Cover : Old man giving balloon to the Life cherub, “The Balloon Man,” art by Rea Irvin.

– Full page color Instant Postum ad with art by Norman Price.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Sterner (The headliner), Oliver Herford (An 80 percent Samaritan), J. R. Shaver (Well, anyway, it was a good Christmas), Rea Irvin (Two pages : Around the world with the New Year), P. L. Crosby (Here endeth the first lesson),
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Gentlemen – the Ladies!).
– Some current events include : Four-Power treaty for the Pacific, Fight for an Irish Republic, The Mind in the Making by James Harvey Robinson, The world does not need a theology that teaches Conduct by compulsion and decorum by fear.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – October 6, 1921 (# 2031)

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:38:12 +0000

Cover : Group of youths riding in a hay wagon under the full moon, “The Hay Ride,” art by Victor C. Anderson.

– Full page color Prudential Insurance ad with Columbus and his ship, art by Sweeney.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Uncle Sam’s Predicament : Taxes, unemployment, disarmament : they are all up to me – Sounds like 2011), Charles Forbell (Discovery of the first mosquito in Halcyon Heights), Robert L. Dickey (Fanastic! The psychology of a Pair of Ears and a Tail – understanding what a dog is saying.).
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonnell (A summer creation, couple in a canoe).
– Some current events include : Cursing all the factors that led to the Great War, Smashing of organization, Progress of new ideas, Discussion between Sinn Fein and the British Government, Henry Arthur Jones and George Bernard Shaw, Major Curran’s success in the Republican primaries, National conference on unemployment, Mr. Urbain Ledoux of Boston.
– Half page art by J. R. Shaver (Hello! What’s the matter, Little boy Old man bending down to talk to little boy and puppy in street).
– Quarter page Holeproof hosiery ad, not signed, but likely by C. Coles Phillips.
– And much more 1921 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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Life Magazine – October 27, 1921 (# 2034) – Rea Irvin – Golfing Lovers

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:36:37 +0000

Cover : The house falling over on an oblivious man reading Life on the patio, art by Rea Irvin.

– Full page color Pall Mall Rounds cigarettes ad.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Forbell (collecting ye indemnity), Charles Dana Gibson (Memories – when her little sister came to town), Rea Irvin (For a pure Mother Goose), Robert L. Dickey (The awakening of Chiu-Hi), Ethel Plummer (Golf humor, After the ball),
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall (Golf theme with young lovers “They’ve already taken seven between them and they’re not out of the rough yet”).
– Some current events include : Baseball series not yet done, Ireland not yet loose, Canal Toll exemption bill passed, Speculations of astronomers about vegetation on the moon and inhabitants in Mars, Old Moore’s Almanac, Mayoral election in New York, Three hundred thousand dollars of alcohol have been abstracted from the cellar of Joseph Leiter’s house in Washington, National Organization of Girl Scouts.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – November 3, 1921 (# 2035) – F. X. Leyendecker – Folly Number

Brenda Wiard — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:35:00 +0000

Cover : Fabulous! Jester playing music for young woman while looking down her dress as her husband looks on from behind, “A False Note,”art by the excellent F. X. Leyendecker.

– FOLLY NUMBER.
– Full page color Victrola ad, Victor Talking Machine Company, art by Norman Price.
– Full page art or cartoon art by H. T. Webster (Private Jim Hopkins see General Foch for the first time – rather a sad drawing of a man with only one leg standing at his hospital window with crutches, while saluting a general who is giving a speech outside), Cesar Giris (with a poem by Oliver Herford : There, There Pierrot!), Gluyas Williams (Please don’t wait! Insure before it’s too late), Albert Sterner (The heights of folly – woman smoking),
– Two page centerspread art by A. B. Frost (The morning after the night before – partying farm animals).
– Some current events include : United States Labor Union reduces wages for railroad workers, Railroad strike, Silesia, The unwisdom of coercing Japan, Sinn Fein, Colonel Haskell of the American Relief Administration in Russia.
– And much more 1921 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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