Life, 1928-12-28 · page 22 of 37
Life — December 28, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains four separate satirical cartoons commenting on contemporary social issues: 1. **"Heap Mover"**: Jokes about incompetent moving companies and the need for patience with inexperienced workers. 2. **"Theater Usher"**: Satirizes theater etiquette—the irony being that profanity is acceptable "from the stage" (performers) but not from paying patrons, mocking theatrical hypocrisy. 3. **"Backwards Sign"**: A worker refuses to endorse his employer's café by displaying their sign backwards, criticizing either false advertising or poor working conditions. 4. **"One-Eye Connolly Crashes the Ku Klux Meeting"** (photograph) and **"Chiropractor Works on India-Rubber Man"**: Mock the KKK and quack medical practices respectively, reflecting early 20th-century concerns about extremist groups and fraudulent healthcare. The cartoons reflect ordinary working-class life and contemporary skepticism toward institutions.
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Heap Mover: Try to have patience with him, ma'am. He's new at the game—an’ we all have to learn, sometime. Tueater Usiter (remonstrating with uproarious patron): You'll have to stop it, sir. You can’t use such language in this theater—that 1s, except from the stage. Sue: Wot's the idea? Yer sign’s on backwards. He: To tell the truth, madam, I just took lunch at the café I'm workin’ for, and I find that I cannot indorse the sentiments expressed on this sign. ‘Tue Citropractror Works on THE INpiA-RusBer MAN comicbooks.com