I Always Say—(Sez Gracie Allen)

Sez Gracie Allen presents a single-panel gag comic drawn by O. Soglow, featuring a frustrated woman at a public telephone booth. Allen, famous for her radio comedy partnership with George Burns, lent her name and comedic voice to newspaper features. The gag targets the era's ubiquitous pay-phone frustrations: wrong numbers and mechanical failure. Soglow's line work—economical, expressive—captures physical comedy through exaggerated gesture and facial distortion. The speech balloon convention, already standardized by the 1930s, anchors the joke to its punchline. Such daily strips populated newspapers nationwide, forming the visual scaffolding from which comic books would emerge within the decade.