Life, 1927-11-17 · page 11 of 48
Life — November 17, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon**: A motorist has hit a movie actor. The officer tells the motorist he can't collect bounty until tomorrow—satirizing Hollywood actors as so worthless that hitting one might warrant a reward. This reflects early 20th-century dismissal of film actors as low-status performers. **"The Nerves of Industry"**: A dialogue in heavy dialect between two workers complaining about their jobs, using exaggerated immigrant speech patterns typical of period humor that relied on ethnic caricature. **"The Bold Fellow!"**: A brief joke about someone embarrassed at a freak show, caught staring at a tattooed woman. **"No Sale" and "All Explained"**: Separate short humorous vignettes about everyday situations. The page reflects early 1900s comedic conventions: slapstick, ethnic humor, and social commentary through working-class characters.
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Motorist (wildly Hollywood Cop: OFFICER—OPFICER! COME QUICK! I'VE RUN OVER A MOVIF SORRY, OLD CHAP It’s SUNDAY AND You BOUNTY UNTIL TO-MORROW, The Nerves of Industry “McXEEFUS Beltun Leather. AYE) Who ya callun, please? Misser Toozy?...Jussaminnut, conneckya withum....Outsye call Misser Toozy — Oh, zat you, Misser Tooz I bee that party, buttay don’t anssa... Awright, I'll tryum again right Anso I tooum, Anner, I sezz, ‘How ye ta know ya wuz tryun ta get tha Hotel Algonkwun?’ I sezz. ‘Ya gaimme The Bold Fellow! Reggie: 1 WAS QUITE EMBARRASSED AT THE FREAK stow. Perey: Wow Was THA Cholly: tite TATTOORD Lapy CAvGT ME STARING AT HER. tha number annye called um,’ I sezz, ‘buttye ainno telephone dreck ry, I sezz, ‘annye dint know whether ya wuz callun tha Hotel Algonkwun atha Bronx Zoo,’ I sezz. ‘Thassall I knew aboutut,’ I sezz, ‘annye dint care half as mush,’ 1 sezz, , ‘I mighta gesstut,” he sezz. ‘Say,’ he sezz, ‘has they been a death ontha swishboard?’ he when tha fewnrull wait untl afferwards,’ he sezz, annye Misser Griffun,’ 1 sezz, ‘ya may be tha bossuz nevview,’ I sezz, ‘but yar less anna cock-eyed stepson ta me,’ I I'm runnin’ iss ’ I sezz, call tha numbers ya gimmee,’ | ‘buttif,’ I sezz, ‘ya expeck me ta rememer all tha plaisuss ya e down inya date book,’ a got tha wrong party,’ I sezz, ‘coz I ainno dreckry,’ I sezz, ‘annye ainno Get-Ac- quainned Club,’ I sezz, ‘annye ann sezz. “Temmee is annile sezz, ‘Lissun, swish- annile sezz, ainno Agency fa Lonesome Guyls,’ I sezz, annec mad he Anner wuz sa hung up like a hat, Hello... Toozy, I been tryun ta gettum, but- don't an .Well, I'm sure I annimajjun....1 thinkare line muss be outuy order... Heze havvun a fit, Anner....” Heman Fay, Jr. s, Misser No Sale WANT a pair of stockings for 1 Indy . S, sir. Nude?” “None of your business.” actor! CAN'T COLLECT your All Explained DA: Our electric light bill is con- siderably less than last month How do you suppose that happened? Ma: Well, for vacuum cleaner was broken most of the time, then Mabel's friend has quit being platonic. one thing, the and boy | THE MAN WHO TRIED TO ELOPE WITH A CASHIER GIRL, comicbooks.com