Life Magazine – March 4, 1915 (# 1688) – Circus Family

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Cover : Circus family playing with their small child, “The Big Act”, art by Morland, Monland, or Mowland I believe, Lovely!

– Full page color ad for Vogue magazine, reproduction of the March 1, 1915 cover by Helen Dryden.
– Full page Johnnie Walker Red Label Whisky ad with art by Leo Cheney.
– Full page Welch’s Grape Juice Company ad with art.
– Illustrators include Angus MacDonall (Heroes series), J. Conacher, Otho Cushing, Charles Dana Gibson (full page), Donald McKee, Crawford Young, C. F. Peters, Crichton (cool signature!), Rea Irvin, Wm. H. Walker, P. L. Crosby, Orson Lowell, Gerard O. Delano (neat), F. T. Richards (Full page, February), G. B. Inwood, J. Conacher, F. G. Cooper, Ellison Hoover, Mark Fenderson (full page), J. R. Shaver, and many more.
– Letters of a Japanese School-boy, Wild Women and Hysterix.
– Full page art by Balfour-Ker “Paving the Road to Civilization”, a war theme, very good.
– Doctors, by G. K. Chesterton.
– Editorial comments pertain to Piutes in Utah, Herr Ridder, Congressman Bartholdt, Dr. Kuno Francke, U.S. participation in the war, German submarines, Germany is sinking, San Francisco Fair, Madame Sarah Bernhardt loses a leg, Home Run Baker retires from baseball.
– Two page center spread by C. D. Gibson, “Studies in Expression, making it a jack pot.”
– Full page Goodyear tires ad, Fortified Tires, with submarine in background.
– Half page Nabisco Sugar Wafers ad, cute, a fairy sandwich.
– Full page Kelly-Springfield tire company ad.
– Full page color Columbia Graphophone Company ad, very nice.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1915 content – fun!