Life, 1929-04-19 · page 38 of 52
Life — April 19, 1929 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief satirical jokes and cartoons typical of early 20th-century humor magazines: **Top cartoon**: Two sailors falling from a ship's rigging while painting, with the caption "Urry up, 'Arry, or the paint-pot'll get us!" — a slapstick visual gag about workplace danger. **Main cartoons**: The "Lorry Driver" sketch depicts a motor vehicle stuck in brush, with the driver asking a passenger to hold their breath to reduce weight—mocking either automotive reliability or passenger anxiety about new cars. **Text jokes** mock: - Modern art (an artist painting himself deserves the result) - Hoboken melodrama revivals (novelty is seeing villains punished, unlike real life) - Social pretension (the "no inferiors" exchange) - Installment buying culture (the Joneses can't afford their car outright) - Class tensions (meek people inheriting while facing inheritance taxes) The humor reflects 1920s anxieties: rapid motorization, consumer debt, social climbing, and modern art's incomprehensibility. All content derives from contemporary newspapers and magazines credited in attribution lines.
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“Look, dear, Who's the strange women with your husband?” Tit Ba, An artist of the very modern school has painted a picture of himself. All we can say is that it serves him right. —London Opinion. B Thousands of New Yorkers are = travelling over to Hoboken to revivals a of the old-time melodramas. The nov- 0 elty in this is that you see a villain is punished. —Detroit News. Snos—I never associate with my in feriors, do you? Grri—I_ don't know. I never met any of your inferiors. y —Path finder. It’s just as well that the meck in herit the earth. Nobody else would Topmost Saitor: ‘Urry up, 'Arry, or the paint-pot'll get us! stand for the inheritance tax. 1 —Punch (by permission) —Buffalo News. -~ Is it possible to have a nightmare during the day, says a doctor. That is so; we heard of a young man who imagined that he was walking down Bond Street with only one spat on— and he was! —Humorist. Te a ee ee ae ee eee “Now that the Joneses have their new car I suppose they are out quite a bit.” “Oh, no, just the first installment.” —Christian Science Monitor. A Middlesex football team has been suspended because it was reported that some of the players threatened the life of the referee. Footballers should not encroach on the privilege of the spec- Lorry Driver: Now, sir, | think we'll manage it if yer let all yer breath out. tators, —Punch. —London Opinion. comicbooks.com