The Organ-Grinder’s Dancing Girl
If you’ve never seen an organ grinder with a dancing monkey on a chain — which is likely, since it’s a mode of employment that’s gotten awfully obsolete these days — you might not get the joke here. The caption, if you can read it, says “I was starving to death with a monkey.”
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From the August 1940 issue of Esquire; artist is E Simms Campbell. Color image available here.