Life Magazine – May 12, 1927 (# 2323) – Fashion Number

– FASHION NUMBER (much on fashions, le mode, models, beauty).
– Full page color Chrysler Imperial 80 car ad with yellow open-top auto, art by Frank Quail.
– Beautiful and unusual (for Denton) full page intricate art ad for Phoenix hosiery, man smoking a pipe in his pajamas, art by Donald Denton.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Loren Stout (Big emotional moments with the fashion model), Russell Patterson (The survival of the fittest … models wearing furs of endangered animals), C. H. Sykes (No sign of abating).
– Very humorous piece by Robert Benchley, The Four-in-hand outrage.
– Two page centerspread art by Ralph Barton, “Five famous ladies as the fashion artists would depict them).
– Some current events include : Floods, China in chaos, Stock Market is ailing, Discussion of the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, First class murder with sex complications outranks everything else in the newspapers, The Judicious Hooker.
– Half page artwork by C. J. Mulholland, “Tell me, Nigel, why do you insist upon using the Little Gem Kant-Slip rivets in your work?”
– Full page color Melachrino cigarettes ad with Maharajah de Kapurthala.
– Full page color Chesterfield cigarettes ad with couple reflected in lily pond, A reflection of good taste.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1927 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!