Life, 1928-06-28 · page 28 of 35
Life — June 28, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor page from *Life* magazine featuring brief jokes and satirical cartoons on various social topics. Key items: **"Paris Guide"** (top): A French observer mocks American tourists, suggesting xenophobic humor about foreigners visiting Paris. **"The Campaign Cigar"**: Political satire about vote-buying—a Scottish politician offers cigars in exchange for votes, mocking election corruption. **"Another Famous Mad Scene"**: Broadway theater satire about a female playwright whose love scene is deemed too sexually explicit for authorities to allow. **"It Won't Listen to Reason"**: Absurdist commentary on intellectuals trying to prove superiority over a golf ball. **Other items**: Domestic humor about bathing noise, bathroom traps for mice, and racial dialect jokes (the "Yassuh" item uses period-appropriate but now-offensive racial stereotyping). The page reflects 1920s-era concerns: political corruption, theatrical censorship, gender dynamics, and casual ethnic/racial mockery typical of the era's mainstream humor publications.
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