Life Magazine – March 20, 1919 (# 1899) – Bolshevik Number

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Cover : Lady Civilization drawing her sword on Mr. Bolshevik who has just killed the Monarch and is holding a dagger behind his back and a lighted bomb, art by Walter de Maris.  This is another parallel with the current situation in Ukraine – may Lady Civilization WIN!

– BOLSHEVIK NUMBER (= Russian Communist Party).
– Full page color ads for Michelin (Do the tubes you use FIT?  Slightly different look to this ad, art by Edrop), Grape-Nuts (LOVELY : little girl in red talking to grocery counter man).
– Full page ads for United State Tires, Life magazine subscription, Lucky Strike cigarettes (with circular illustration of smoking man holding playing cards right by his chin), Mimeograph (with art RFH of three parrots), Goodyear tires (with have page photo of coal truck tires and inset photo of whole truck, Zettlemeyer Coal), Miller Tires, Rubberset company.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Rea Irvin (… remould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire), Harry Grant Dart (Tammanee), Robert L. Dickey (If our domestic animals adopted Bolshevism).
– Neat half page art by Rodney Thomson showing War’s Effect on Landscape Gardening such as the Trench Driveway and the Bomb-proof Pergola.
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson (Man throwing a brick (Public opinion) at a howling cat (Bolshevism) : The cure).
– Some current events include : Republicans are hoping to break up the League of Nations, President Wilson’s refusal on the evening of March 4th to meet Judge Cohalan as a member of an Irish committee was deeply interesting, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Raymond Robbins who went to Russia on a Red Cross Mission,
– And much, much more.