Life Magazine – May 22, 1919 (# 1908) – Star gazing

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Cover : Couple cuddling in car while watching the stars, car license says “License applied for,” caption is “Taking a chance” excellent art by Edward Monks.

– Full page color ads for Michelin tubes, Colgate’s shaving stick.
– Full page ads for United States Tires (the brunt of the burden), Miller uniform tubes, Packard Motor Cars, Chandler Sic motor car (art by Glenn Shaw of the new Chandler Touring car), Girard cigars (Girard week May 19th to 26th), Reed & Barton Jewelers and silversmiths, Ruud Water Heaters, Macbeth Lens headlights.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Walter de Maris (Open covenants : four old men in a meeting behind conspicuously locked doors), G. Farr (artist is probably William Gordon Farr = Jack Farr, page and a half, A romance of high finance), Charles Dana Gibson (He’s made a wonderful success out of literature … used to write poetry, now writes advertisements), Robert L. Dickey (Dog : if I had my way).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “I heard you calling me,” wizened old GOP elephant with his 66” Congress briefcase talking to the President.
– Some current events include : Flight is the current novelty, There is a big flight underway which aspires to reach Europe, Colonel Arthur Woods reminds us that our brethren in Khaki who lately had employment in France are coming back by the hundred thousand, and that many of them need jobs.
– “Regarding the Peace Treaty : France is dubious, England is rather rueful, Belgium is bawling for more, Italy is outraged, Russia is out of it, China is disconsolate, Japan is meditative, Germany is teetotally flabbergasted and protestant, and these States look on and wonder how a world of nations so distrustful and disgruntled will ever get together.”
– And much, much more.