Life Magazine – December 27, 1929 (# 2460) – Liquor Caught by Customs

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Cover : Completely unconcerned young lady applying lipstick as a Custom’s official at the US border pulls many bottles of liquor out of her car, “She didn’t know it was loaded,” art by Gardner Rea.  Note : it is just signed Rea, thus it is possible that the artist is Rea Irvin, but I think not.

– Full page color ads for Hawaii Tourist Bureau (Society’s Winter Paradise, with rather nice art of local man weaving with palm fronds on Waikiki beach as vacationing couple looks on, Diamond Head in background.), Willys-Knight Great Six auto (with art of woman in shawl, Distinctively different in style and action), Camel cigarettes (Judges of quality).
– Full page black and white ad for Mimeograph.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (Finis … end of 1929), R. B. Fuller (All me life I ain’t got mixed up with no women!  Super skiing art, three skiing women about to crash into a hermit), Gardner Rea (Impressions of Magazine offices : Musical America), Edwina (Sinbad : day dreams), Ralph Barton (Diana, Miss Mary Nash), Kemp Starrett (what a marvelous time everybody’s having).
– Half page artwork by Dr. Seuss (I’m all for dawgs as a rule …).
– A million point bridge game” started in Superior, Wisconsin in 1920 and carried by two families, is nearing the finish, the losers must provide the winners with a dinner (This is a true story).
– Two page centerspread art by Robert Lawson (The refugees, animals and other woods dwellers fleeing the site of a new development.).
– Eric Hatch writes Willingdrift, it starts in the first issue of 1930, runs for 26 issues, each is a complete short story and (together) they form a delightful serial.
– And much, much more.