Life, 1928-11-30 · page 5 of 52
Life — November 30, 1928 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts two women in conversation near a window, with the caption presenting a dialogue about divorce costs. One woman tells the other that a lawyer quoted her five dollars for a divorce, which she rejected as an insult—the cost being less than the value of her jewelry. This satirizes attitudes toward divorce and marriage in the early 20th century, mocking both the commodification of relationships and women's materialism. The joke relies on period assumptions about marriage as a financial transaction and women's concern with possessions. The surrounding text contains three separate pieces: "All-American" discusses collegiate football team lineups and ethnic names; "Hark to the hip-hurrahs" comments on cheering traditions; and "He Approved" briefly quotes someone's opinion on a theater movement. These appear to be typical magazine filler content and brief commentary rather than connected satirical pieces.
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“Divorce him? Say! De lawyer tole me a divorce'd cost me five dollars—an’ ‘at nigger of mine jes’ ain't worth it.” All-American Hark to the hip-hurrahs, songs, and the | Take a good player—no matter what Ais oski-wows! kin is— Coutectare football I'm told is American,} Are they for Allen or Thompson or| See that he chooses a tongue-twisting Native as Babbitt or bootleg or pie, Ross? | name But reading the lineups of teams, 1} Don't make me laugh! They arise as|Like Pulkrabek, Nemecek, Krafchik, or declare I can Jankoski wows Miskinis, Not find the evidence showing me why. Bleacherites, throwing Stanczyk for a Apsit, or Westra, and safe is his fame! : loss. | Dalnar Devening. Take a Brunonian list, or New Yorkian; tints of Michigan, Fordham, or | Tell me, is all of that cheering, so catchy, ale, HE APPROVED a And tell me whence Niemiec, Magai,| Tribute to Robinson's passes and boots? | _““Wuat do you think of the Little and Kevorkian, Reader, those cheers are for Krekow,| Theater Movement?” Sjostrom, Wisniewski, and Kovalcheck Guarnaccia, “I'm for it! The sooner it moves, the hail! Yablok, Ujhelyi, Raskowski, and Utz. | better.” comicbooks.com