Life Magazine – January 25, 1923 (# 2099) – Charles Dana Gibson – Shakespeare

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Cover : Two men examining posters for various plays “Mr. Shakespeare comes to town,” art by Charles Dana Gibson.

– Full page color Victrola, Victor Record Catalog ad with art by Price.
– Neat full page Western Electric ad with photos of uses of paper in telephone manufacturing.
– Full page art or cartoon art by H. T. Webster (It’s tiresome but worth the effort), Oliver Herford (Painful impressions of Impressionism), Ralph Barton (Life’s social directory, no. 1 the theatre), C. H. Sykes (the month), C. F. Peters (La politesse! Toujours la politesse!), W. J. Enright (Determining the horse power of a new model in Detroit), Ernest Hamlin Baker (Underwood portable typewriter ad)
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (The bashful lover).
– Some current events include : M. Clemenceau at the Havre, Occupation of the Ruhr, Decadence of Europe, Nitti, We do not want the needy Europeans to starve, Battalion of death.
– Full page movie poster ad for Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks.
– Much more.
– Half page art by J. R. Shaver (Sis, what’s a conscience?, two girls reading in front of fireplace).