Life Magazine – January 29, 1914 (# 1631) – The Encore
$10.00 – $24.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Good – once bound (Spine is slightly rough. Cover has central crease)
Fair (Generally Very Good, but upper edge is faintly water marked. Not bad).
Description
Cover : Female performer coming back out on the stage for a final number, “The Encore,” signed, but I do not know the signature. Looks like a capital E and capital D overlaid and inside a squarish O. If you know this artist, please let me know.
– Full page color ad for VOGUE magazine, woman in fancy gown and headdress in front of a large peach V, art probably by George Wolfe Plank according to a 2Neat customer.
– Full page art or cartoon art by J.G. (Life’s Fancy Work), Rea Irvin (Popular illustrators at work : Charles Dana Gibson).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell (Jury box with eleven men and one woman. On the first ballot the vote was eleven for conviction … “We, the members of the jury, find the defendant not guilty”).
– Some current events include : Boston, Congressman Curley, civil service reform, New York has better brains than Boston, Blatherskite, the Montessori method in politics.
– Grape juice as an alleviation of intemperance is prejudiced by the current assertion that five per cent of alcohol has been found in it.”
– Nice full page color Pierce Arrow car ad in rust and olive green.
– Much more.
– Full page art or cartoon art by J.G. (Life’s Fancy Work), Rea Irvin (Popular illustrators at work : Charles Dana Gibson).
– Two page centerspread art by Orson Lowell (Jury box with eleven men and one woman. On the first ballot the vote was eleven for conviction … “We, the members of the jury, find the defendant not guilty”).
– Some current events include : Boston, Congressman Curley, civil service reform, New York has better brains than Boston, Blatherskite, the Montessori method in politics.
– Grape juice as an alleviation of intemperance is prejudiced by the current assertion that five per cent of alcohol has been found in it.”
– Nice full page color Pierce Arrow car ad in rust and olive green.
– Much more.