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# Analysis of "Radio Wrinkles" Page **The Cartoon:** The top cartoon depicts a man (labeled "head") operating what appears to be an early radio device, telling an alligator "I haven't the heart," while the alligator asks "Wonder what ails master?" The caption explains that a man named Dorf kept alligators as traveling pets but has grown too fond of them to kill for new suitcases—hence his dilemma. **The Story Below:** "Radio Wrinkles" is a comedic piece satirizing early radio communication. It mocks the chaos of international radio broadcasts, depicting garbled messages, crossed signals, and absurd misunderstandings between callers in different cities (Jerusalem, Detroit, Halifax, Paris, Edinburgh, Moscow). The humor relies on readers' familiarity with radio's notorious technical unreliability and the comedy of miscommunication across distances—a cutting-edge technology still novel enough to be funny.

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“ [haven't \ 0F “Wonder what atly 5 Draen by Dox Henne Mr. Durr tHovcur ne WIS OWN TRAVELING BAGS. 80 FOND OF HIS PETS THAT 4b NEEDS A NEW SUITCASE. WOULD SAVE Now, arrer MONEY BY SEVERAL YEARS, HE HASN'T THE ALLIGATORS AND RAISING FINDS HE HAS GROWN THEM, MUCH AS HE KEEPING HEART TO KILL Radio Wrinkles By Sopiute P-P-P-PTZ-Z-Z-Z. “Arabella, do go answer the flash! I think that is Mrs. Dubinski of Jerusalem trying to get over. She promised, you know, to call me up one da week to give me her recipe for dehydrating olives. Do tap the sender at once, dear, before that meddle Badillah Abdul of Constantinople puts in.”” 1-2-0: —Pt2-2-2-2-0-2-2-2- “Tell her I'm coming—yes, yes, Mrs. Dubinski, this is De- troit—yes, this is Harding 1-9-2-1," “Oh, get off, Naples!” “There, now Mrs. Dubinski! Can you hear me?” “What's that? You've just got up? Oh, that’s right, it is just breakfast time with you! I keep forgetting. Why I’ve just got in from the matinee in Chicago.” “Oh, pretty good! One of those Ante-Bellum plays, you know. You can't imagine how awkward the women looked with those horrid old skirts on. By the way, you should sce the new trouserettes John brought me from India. They're pat- terned after those of the leading lady in Medullah Hariwaji’s arem, “What’s that?” “Oh, I'm expecting John to dinner soon. hour or so ago when I was in Chicago. then, “Yes, said he had a crippled propeller, but I wasn’t to worry; said he'd pick up a new one in New York.” “Oh, for Heaven's sake who is that calling in?” “Oh, somebody! Did you hear her, Mrs. Dubinski?” Spt-tz-tz-tz-2-2-2-2-2-2-!!! “Well, what do you know about that? Cut clear off from Palestine—Sh-sh-h-h! Arabella, do be still.” She says her name’s Mademoiselle Givotte French girl on the tap!” “Say, Arabella, she’s having somebody paged in the McAlpin I talked to him an He was in Halifax in Paris, a Reprorp in New York pudent minx! Mr. John Tackheimer!: My husband! The im Well, U'm glad I learned French during the war anyhow.” “Oh, says she’s coming Telling your father, too—ol York—Oni, ¢ we'll see! nunzio route to Bordeaux Lippsner Special to Washington, D. C."” He says—" BL LLLLL LLANE Oh, dear, what does all this flibbertigibbett mean? 1 was just getting interested. 1 do wonder what John was starting to say, but I'll fix her—the French vixen—oh-h! Wait till John Tackheimer gets home!” sh to America soon, by next plane h, he says he'll meet her in New Says she'll fly by night via D’An- Caproni Express to Liverpool Jerusalem! Oh, Jerusalem!” “Who's that? Oh, is this Edinburgh? Great Scott!” “Why, hello, Mr. MacDonald, I thought I knew your voice “You say you're trying to get Rabindranath Tagor we certainly do get our waves crossed yet sometimes, don’t w A Scotsman calling an East Indian poet, getting a suffragette in Michigan!” vo, Mr, MacDonald, I just lost out on Jerusalem; some- thing wrong on the Berlin-to-Bagdad line, I fancy, and it put me in on Paris, How's Mrs. Mac and the bairnies?” Gone to Moscow? Heavens, whom does she know there? Oh, yes, I do remember now that you mention it. I've heard her speak of Mrs. Kabrilovitchky: “Oh, went over in her new touring plane? But you must tell Mrs. Mac to come over and see my new parachute; it’s one of those nice silk ones, you know, John bought it for me on his last trip to Shanghai—it’s the very latest—” “Hello, hello Hell’ * ** ** QI” 1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-7- Boom! “Horrors! I heard a Hun—I'm crossed with Konigswuster- comicbooks.com