Life Magazine – January 16, 1931 (# 2515) – Laundryman’s Dilemma

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Cover : Very Cute (though now would be considered racist) scene with Chinese laundryman calling customer to see if he really wants a shirt washed … it has girls names, numbers and lip imprints all over it, art by Ed Graham.  Or – HA – maybe he is calling the girls himself!

– Full page ads for Canadian National railway for trips to Alaska (includes photo of Taku glacier near Skagway), Ethyl Casoline (Color, with really nice art of porpoises, not signed, Merrily they roll along), Chesterfield cigarettes (color, with nice art of plane flying over ocean at sunset, art by Norman Kenyon).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (another Hoover Dam), Edwina (Sinbad : snow bound!), Gluyas Williams (the elevator starter’s little snapper gets out of order), Ralph Fuller (2/3 page, couple on safari followed by a huge string of laden porters (By the way, dear, have you any idea where you packed the hair-pins?), Cyril Kenneth Bird Fougasse (Homo sapiens).
– Care and feeding of debutantes, by Jack Cluett, chapter 3.
– The telephone and you, by Tom Sims.
– Two page art by Percy L. Crosby, The Family Album, Skippy and the Revolution of the soul.
– Some current events include : Coolidge and wheat pegging (farm subsidies, setting the price of wheat), Robert Owen’s settlement named New Harmony inn Indiana, Communism does not seem to work well, American Legion in dispute with Salvation Army over distribution of funds.
– And much, much more.

Want More?  Click —>  Who is He Calling?, 1931 LIFE magazine.