Life — September 23, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Grocer's Boy Movie-Fan Takes Pardonable Revenge Upon a Hapless Movie Magnate" 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.