Life Magazine – April 6, 1916 (# 1745) – Rea Irvin – Easter Number

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Cover : Crowd of people in fancy dress passing a church, “Consider the Lilies,” art by Rea Irvin.

– EASTER NUMBER (a fat issue).
– Full page color Columbia Records, double disc ad with art of man and woman dancing in their house in front of the fire.
– Full page color ad for Great Western Champagne with art of man in white tie and tails.
– Full page ads for Johnnie Walker Red Label Whisky (art by Leo Cheney), Chandler Motor car company (art), Thermoid Hydraulic Compressed Brake Lining (art), Aeolian Vocalion phonograph (art), Heublein & Brother (art), Fisk red top tires (art
– Nice half page fadeaway style Boston Garter ad, art surely by C. Coles Phillips.
– Full page color Rigaud perfumes ad.
– Full page color Pompeian Night Cream and more ad.
– Full page color Cook’s Imperial champagne ad, art signed with D with an arrow through it.
– Two page color Chalmers Motor Company, one page with art of car on beach.
– Full page art or cartoon art by R. M. Crosby (Your wife doesn’t smoke, Eh? None of the Vices?  No, she only drinks and swears.), F. Foster Lincoln (landscape format, If the servants were to tell them what they really think of them), Charles Forbell (That second cocktail), Rea Irvin (The grand tour for stay-at-homes), Paul Goold (Easter with Easter catechism by Harvey Peake), Rodney Thomson (The voice of spring), Robert L. Dickey (Reasons why I like my dog), Charles Dana Gibson (The plump one complains …), Wm. H. Walker (The old woman of the sea),
– Full page color art by Elizabeth Denison Lance (A Jamaican Easter bonnet).
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Angus MacDonall “The Surrender of Winter.”
– Full page color art by Rea Irvin (Poor John!  I knew he couldn’t stand this astral pace).
– Some current events include : Exhibition fight between two eminent heavyweight boxers, Contradictions from Mexico, Carranza troops, Herrera and Villa, Peace talk in Europe, Verdun, Somebody has been sinking Dutch ships, Girls hereabouts preparing for war.
– Full page color Thomas B. Jeffery Company car ad with art.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1916 content – fun!