Life, 1926-09-23 · page 10 of 40
Life — September 23, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This comic strip depicts a grocer's delivery boy gaining revenge on a movie producer by bombarding him with rejected movie scenarios. The boy, frustrated by the studio's repeated rejections (shown by his stack of labeled submissions), systematically hands the magnate increasingly absurd pitches—each meeting the same dismissal. The final panels show the boy's "pardonable revenge": he literally buries the executive under an avalanche of rejected scripts. The satire targets early Hollywood's gatekeeping and dismissiveness toward unsolicited screenplays. It mocks both the studio system's arrogance and the persistent desperation of aspiring screenwriters seeking their break, presenting the scenario as comeuppance for the executive's condescension.
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To Elizabeth, an Ingrate Yeu say I have maligned you; well, what then— ‘an your indifference be justified? Remember Sunday last—that countryside, The trouble that you made beyond my ken? I think I'm most indulgent of all men: Though others scoff around you and deride, I treat you gently, kindly, and abide Your sudden outbursts ever and again. Who took you in when others cast you by, Who sct you straight, who rubbed awa Who gav ? your scar, «And did you try? You sneered! And now the end; you've gone too far... . Can this, can nothing move you? Well, then I Shall trade you in and buy myself a car. George A. Paravicini. another chance?. A New Monologue HARRIETT: Now that Blank’s insomnia is cured, what does he bore people with? Aoatua: His dreams. A dozen eggs boy and hurry OVERNMENT chemists have suceceded in pro- G ducing an alcohol which will not poison you but just makes you feel sick, thus sounding the key- note of the whole Prohibition movement. . JL It is our fear that our most lawless and unpatriotic clement will now refuse to drink the Government's off- cially poisoned alcohol and will stick to the illegal but purer brands. aL “Foro Secks New Site for Assembly Plant,” says a headline. We suggest that he erect it near the tmost convenient grade crossing. The problem before our tennis stars is whether they shall play the game for love or money. aL The impending visit of Mlle. Lenten to these shores is apparently destined to cause small excitement unless, by some chance, C. C. Pyte could persuade Suzan to swim over, aL Chicago's curfew, ordering young by midnight, will be parents, who have had a hard time getting tables at the bet- ter night clubs, welcomed by “FOR SALE—Or trade, cheap this week: A good young milk, fur- niture for tw dster and a ladies size Waltham wa —Lyons (Kan.) News. In other words, she will give till it hurts. LL The increase of eighteen per cent. in the production of fount encourages the belief that ir in’ pens another six months or a year the industry will hav ght up with the output of dotted lines. +L “Modern funeral methods discussed at annual meeting of Oregon undertakers. Sports section, page 4.” —News summary in Portland Oregonian, Can it be that some of the Oregon morticians have signed contracts with C. C. Pye? LL did not give a party y ing, as published Iri- jay, but had a few friends of the neigh- borhood to cat some refreshments left from a party given by Mrs Riley —Wahpeton (N. D.) Globe. We're glad to get the real facts on this at last. LL THE GROCER’S BOY MOVIE-FAN TAKES PARDONABLE REVENGE UPON A HAPLESS MOVIE MAGNATE. In Texas, woman's place is again the home. comicbooks.com