Life Magazine – August 5, 1915 (# 1710) – John LaGatta – Tennis

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Cover : Gorgeous fade-away-style art of young lady serving a tennis ball, “Rare Form,” art by John LaGatta.

– Full page color ads for Omar Turkish Blend cigarettes, Rameses cigarettes, Columbia Records (tennis scene).
– Full page ads for Johnnie Walker Red whiskey (art by Leo Cheney), Life magazine subscription (cute art of Scotsman by Albert Levering), Fisk Tires, Chandler Motor Cars, Perrier sparkling table water, Aeolian-Vocalion (two pages, phonographs).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (If he must remain in the cabinet … Josephus Daniels, Department of Agriculture), Charles Dana Gibson (Do you think you will be able to keep within your allowance this month?), F. T. Richards (July), Walter Tittle (A reactionary : … perfectly contented with the same man ever since).
– Short story: The ego of the metropolis by Thomas T. Hoyne.
– Short story: Approximating the ultimate with Aunt Sarah, by Charles Earl Gaymon.
– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker, “Crucified,” young couple looking at an apartment with sign “To Let, no children,” a huge child is “crucified” on the side of the building (vertical format).
– Some current events include : Must stop the killing in Europe, Mr. Wanamaker suggests buying back Belgium from Germany, Norman Angell and his loud views on war and peace.
– And much more 1915   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!