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Life Magazine – November 7, 1930 (# 2505) – Cheating at Solitare

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:04:14 +0000

Cover : Woman cheating at Solitare, art by Leonard Holton.

– Full page ad for the National Hotel of Cuba, Havana, opens December 15, 1930.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (Well – I’m afraid we’re thrown on our own for the moment), Edwina (Sinbad the dog : Good ole dog!), Hermione, probably Hermione Palmer (Origin of the expression “Hurrah for our side”, Lady Godiva riding sidesaddle), Ellison Hoover (If the old masters had drawn for the Sunday papers).
– Full page color American Austin car ad, the bantam Austin, The minimum of machinery to carry two people anywhere.
– Some current events include : Colonel Callahan of Louisville is Secretary of the Association of Catholics favoring Prohibition, The Callahan Correspondence, The preferred method of feeding the hungry is to provide work and wages for the unemployed, Drought and poor farming, Distribution of purchasing power has not kept up with the production of commodities.
– And much more 1930 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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Life Magazine – November 14, 1930 (# 2506) – Fox Hunting from cars

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:02:49 +0000

Cover : Gangsters going on a fox hunt from their cars, “High Racketeer Society rides in Fox Chase,” art by Will B. Johnstone.

– Full page ad for Hotel Charlotte Harbor, Punta Gorda, Florida with large photo.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Russell Patterson (Thank Heaven! One more delinquent payment and this furniture is theirs), Edwina (Sinbad : Come In!), G. B. Inwood (Historic Prints of Old New York : Thoo Ow’Clock and Aws Wow!, landscape format), Albert Frueh (Day dreams of the man who sees his picture in the paper).
– Some current events include : British government thinks it is time to omit laying a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Chiang Kai-Shek has converted to Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, The Harkness Hoot magazine is born at Yale, Jews and Palestine.
– And so much more! 1930 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

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Life Magazine – November 21, 1930 (# 2507) – Thanksgiving

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:01:23 +0000

Cover : Turkey laying in bed with alarm clock going off for Thanksgiving day, art by Richard Woolman.

– Full page ad for Gasparilla Inn, Boca Grande, Florida, with four photos.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Bob Fink (Travel ad for Cuba), Peter Hurd (Prestige chocolates ad with knight on horse), Kemp Starrett (New Maid : Well – toodle-oo, I’ll be seein’ yuh!), Edwina (Sinbad the dog : C’m on! Le’s play!), Otto Soglow (Buried treasure), G. B. Inwood (Historic Prints of Old New York : Make way, Make way for His Worship the Mayor, landscape format),
– Full page color Powers Reproduction Corporation ad with art by E. Irving Couse.
– Full page color Hawaii Tourist Bureau ad with lady doing hula in front of full moon, not signed.
– Much more.

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Life Magazine – November 28, 1930 (# 2508) – Bird Dog with Turkey

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:59:23 +0000

Cover : Thanksgiving turkey has slipped onto the floor and man who was cutting it is watching his bird dog “Point” at it, art by Gardner Rea.

– Full page color Goodyear tires ad with Rembrandt’s “The Young Warrior” and Double Eagle tires.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (The food’s nothin’ extra, but you meet some awful nice people … free food line), Edwina (Sinbad : No thank you! … Sinbad doesn’t want the food until his boy offers it to a cat), Ed Graham (Jones! Get your pin, you’re fired!), G. B. Inwood (landscape format : A Red Riot in City Hall Park … policemen roughing up and arresting NO one), Walt Kuhn (The family album : Training down for the holiday).
– Two page centerspread art by Gluyas Williams (The Men’s shop).
– Nice full page color Camel cigarettes ad with football game and group in the stands, When Pleasure is your goal.
– And much, much more.

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Life Magazine – December 5, 1930 (# 2509) – Christmas Number

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:57:50 +0000

Cover : Cutest scene of Sinbad window shopping at the butcher’s shop, border shows Sinbad in Christmas crowds and hurrying home to get away, art by Edwina. Edwina, who is famous for her dog cartoons, is Frances Edwina Dumm.

– CHRISTMAS NUMBER (An extra FAT issue with 56 pages and extra color).
– This issue is dated “December 1930” on the cover and “December 5, 1930” inside.
– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens, Agfa Ansco film and the Readyset traveler camera, Whitman’s chocolates, Cine-Kodak home movie cameras, Canada Dry ginger ale, Crane fixtures in yellow.
– Full page ads for Graybar Radios (art by Briggs, probably Clare A. Briggs), Roger & Gallet fragrances, Santa Fe railroad (with western art), Schrafft’s chocolates, Hotel Charlotte Harbor at Punta Gorda.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Anno Domini 1930), Edwina (Sinbad : Merry Christmas!), Fred G. Cooper (Twas the night before Christmas), Gluyas Williams (The toy department), Perry Barlow (probably)(Old friends are best), G. B. Inwood (Shall I croon for ‘em, Gus?), Victor C. Anderson (from 1922 : Getting ready for the Christmas Reunion), Strothmann (from 1925 : Christmas in Tudor England : Sir Walter Raleigh introduces the Christmas cigar to her majesty), P. L Crosby (from 1928 : D’ya think yuh’ll be workin’ by next year, papa?).
– Full page COLOR art by Henry Hutt (maybe : The making of a skeptic … little boy and three Santas), Ed Graham (What kind of potatoes do you prefer?),
– Two page COLOR centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson (Over the River and Through the Woods … family in sleigh).
– And much more 1930 2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!

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Life Magazine – December 12, 1930 (# 2510) – Ice Skating

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:56:34 +0000

Cover : Rich woman ice skating as her butler follows her with a pillow in case she falls, art by M.

– Full page color Whiting & Davis Mesh Costume bags, purses, ad with art, signed but illegible, George ?
– Full page art or cartoon art by Victor C. Anderson (Mama, it’s so nice to have Daddy home all the time now), Edwina (Sinbad : The winter winds do blow!), Ralph Briggs Fuller (Gosh, Ed, some storm!).
– Some current events include : Harvard football, A couple of Yale players had broken legs after the Yale-Harvard game and another was damaged but no one killed, The great battle between the Wets and the Drys, Mr. Wickersham, Anti-Saloon League, Methodists Board of Morals, Clean up racketeering in New York and Chicago.
– Very pretty full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes ad with woman in diaphanous mint green dress, not signed.
– And so much more! 1930 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

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Life Magazine – December 19, 1930 (# 2511) – Christmas flask

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:55:06 +0000

Cover : Man glaring at odd little flask, a Christmas present?, art by E. Simms Campbell.

– Full page color ad for Life’s Dog Calendar with boxer dog by Carlton Smith, “The Portrait of a Gentleman,” 1931.
– Full page art or cartoon art by I. Klein (That’s our new 95 story building. We weren’t going to let New York have all the honors … dwarfed by gorgeous huge mountains), Edwina (Sinbad : Here comes Santa Claus … hiding “Santa’s” mask and beard).
– Two page centerspread art by C. H. Sykes (The Military Wedding).
– Lovely full page color Ethyl Gasoline ad, Getaway, with very nice art of pheasant and fox by CB.
– Full page color Chesterfield cigarettes ad with gorgeous woman in all white.
– And much, much more.

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Life Magazine – December 26, 1930 (# 2512) – New Year’s Eve

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:53:44 +0000

Cover : Smoking cherub asking for admittance to club, “Have you got a card#8221;, art by Mr. Cooper (probably Fred G. Cooper). Old man 1930 eyeing youthful 1931.

– Full page ad for Life’s Dog Calendar with boxer dog, art by Carlton Smith.
– Nice third page ad for Hotel Tampa Terrace, Florida.
– New Year’s theme in several places.
– Full page cartoon by Gardner Rea, the Life of a mother.
– Sample joke “A centenarian died the other day after seeing an auto for the first time. Evidently he didn’t see it soon enough.”
– Among other comic illustrators this issue has William Steig, G. B. Inwood, Ed Graham, Chester I. Gande, Frueh, Gardner Rea (full page, dogs), I Klein (Miss Fiditch),
– Full page cartoon by J. R. Shaver, His dad’s the racketeer, boy strutting past crowd of kids.
– Humorous half page cartoon of old gents fighting with their glasses off, G. B. Inwood.
– Full page funeral theme cartoon by Barbara Shermund.
– Two page centerspread cartoon by Gluyas Williams, End of a Birthday.
– Full page football and wedding theme cartoon by Kemp Starrett.
– Another great Edwina and Sinbad dog cartoon page, So she doesn’t like dogs.
– Two page paired art by C. W. Anderson, men in winter park.
– Third page ad for Hotel Royal Worth, West Palm Beach, Florida.
– Full page ad with photos for Gasparilla Inn and Cottages, Boca Grande, Florida.
– Life’s Cross Word picture puzzle # 72.
– Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with art of seated lady in red.
– And more.

What to see more Click —> The humor of LIFE magazine.

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Life magazine – August 22, 1930 (# 2494) – Umbrellas on the Beach

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:51:05 +0000

Cover : Colorful beach scene with umbrellas, art by Russell Patterson.

– Wilson golf balls and golf clubs, full page ad.
– Full page cartoon by Kemp Starrett pertaining to The Depression.
– Metropolitan Life Insurance ad, full page “Schooling Raises Pay.”
– The art of radio heckling, by Tom Sims.
– The Male confesses, by Albert Ford Mullady.
– Sinbad the dog, fences and digging, full page cartoon by Edwina.
– Diary of a flagpole sitter, by W. W. Scott.
– Charming half page cartoon by Farr, Library humor, Silence.
– “It was a night for love”, apartment building full of fighting couples, full page cartoon by R. B. Fuller.
– Two page center spread cartoon by G. B. Inwood, Disappearance of taxis during rain.
– Movies : “Manslaughter”, “Our Blushing Brides”, and “Hell’s Island.”
– Quarter page Dr. Seuss cartoon that is actually ad for FLIT bug killer.
– Excellent full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes ad with art of fat and slim athletes, saying “smoke instead of eat” – “Don’t surrender when tempted to over-indulge, reach for a Lucky instead.”

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Life Magazine – August 29, 1930 (# 2495) – Crowded swimming

Brenda Wiard — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:49:44 +0000

Cover : Large swimmer looks up in dismay as another man on a water horse sails over him, art by Ed Graham.

– Interesting Full page Cord Cabriolet front drive car ad with older vehicles fading into background.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Jack Farr (How about supposin’ ya gimme a choc’late soda …), G. B. Inwood (Historic Prints of Old New York : The voyage of the Half Moonshine up the Hudson, landscape format), Edwina (Sinbad : He’s in bad again), Gardner Rea (Yoohoo! Eddie!), Unsigned but probably Baird Leonard (Impressions of the Opening of “Suspense”), G. B. Inwood (The influence of this Tom Thumb stuff).
– Half page artwork by J. R. Shaver (From Life December 9, 1920 : Two kids greetings each other with nicknames that dismay their Mamas).
– Full page color General Dual-Balloon tires ad with mountain road on ledge, art by Fred Mizen, On the Brink of a Hill.
– Much more.

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