Wild Cherries, Vol. 1, No. 3

This October 1933 issue of Wild Cherries, a humor magazine, contains sixty-four pages of jokes, satirical verse, and fiction. The lead story is Dorothy Davies' "Broadway After Dark," an impressionistic catalogue of nocturnal Times Square humanity—theatrical characters, criminals, debutantes, prostitutes, and working-class types rendered in dense, rapid-fire description. Additional content includes comic verse such as "Boiled in Greece," a humorous anecdote titled "Business Before Pleasure" about a junior partner extending his honeymoon, and light wordplay in the "Whisperings of the Sphinx" section offering quips about flirtation and courtship. The extended narrative "Let the Chips Fall Where They May" depicts an Irish servant arranging a faith healer to transfer a pregnant woman's labor pains to her brandy-drunk master, subverting his arrogant expectations. The issue also features cartoons, advertisements—including a bust-enlargement cream promotion—and editorial commentary from the publisher advocating humor as relief from Depression-era hardship.