Judge, 1900-10-06 · page 14 of 16
Judge — October 6, 1900 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and commercial content** interspersed with theater criticism and one political cartoon. The main political content is "THE POLITICAL BANNER" section featuring a **Judge campaign banner** for the 1904 election. The banner shows three portraits—likely candidates or political figures—with a "Full Dinner Pail" emblem (a Republican campaign slogan). The text invites campaign clubs to purchase banners, positioning Judge as supporting this political messaging. The **theater review** mocks a absurd Broadway play involving a man inheriting fortune only if he marries someone deformed—satirizing the low quality of theatrical plots that nonetheless attracted wealthy financial backers ("angels"). A secondary joke criticizes **Romanian actors** imported to the Bowery, paid only $2 weekly by a union, sarcastically suggesting Broadway actors might deserve similar treatment based on talent. The **cartoons** are minimal: one shows a barber/customer exchange about "corns," likely a mild joke about discomfort. The remainder consists of **whiskey, rye, and cocktail advertisements** emphasizing Paris Exposition awards—typical period advertising claiming superiority through international recognition.
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“Comin’ thro’ the Rye” Good things will sell and the best has the custom ‘The best stimulant comes through Baltimore Rye Age Purity Flavor ts the most per- fect whiskey sold, Always Uniform «Unique «Inimitable 4a and by Jobbers. Ny Baluunore, Sia. “JUDGE” AT THE THEATRE. (Continued from page 2.) seems that whatever shortcomings their authors may have as playwrights are counterbalanced by a superhuman ability to find and persuade “angels” to back their fantastic ent Fancy any ove patting up ten thousand dollars for the merry jest of a Broadway tation of this “' plot”: A defunct old fellow named Adam has left a will bequeathing his fortune to,a beauteous young maiden, but only on con- dition that ere her twenty-first birthday she shall marry a man with a bald head and a hare- lip; whereupon the heiress- presumptive prompt- ly clopes with a (supposed) Adonis who has no such deformities, until a lucky railroad accident (symbolized to the audience by a toy-train of cars pulled across the stage by a string) tem- porarily batters him into the semblance of a physical wreck. Thus does Cupid outwit ‘Adam, according to Mr. Stanford, the gifted author. Such plays flourish best in the coago- nial atmosphere of unpretentious towns like Willimantic, Connecticut, or Owl Hoot, Wis- consin; but even there the dramatic what-is-it in question could not have caused a greater sensation—of dumfoundedness—than it did for a night or two in Manhattan, ‘Twenty Roumanian actors, imported to play in the Bowery, having fallen foul of the Hebrew actors’ protective union, it transpires that the} were receiving salaries of two dollars per weel each, This seems rather small, but perhaps the Roumanians have a carefuily graduated scale by which every player is paid exactly in proportion to the artistic value of his perform- ance and no more, Were such a rule strictly enforced on Broadway bow much money would the average actor be getting? JupcE reckons that some of them would have to work for nothing, and pay fines out of that. “THE” POLITICAL BANNER! HANG OUT THE STRONGEST ONE WHILE ABOUT IT. Campaign clubs wishing Banners bearin; Emblem, together with pictures of the Candi with beautiful portraits in oil, together with following prices: 15 x 20 feet, $115.00 the JUDGE copyrighted Full Dinner Pail lates, can procure same, in strong net-work, all apparatus for suspending same, at the 20 x 30 feet, $155.00 30 x 40 feet, $205.00 Address orders to the sole agency, MERRILL & CO., 90 Varick St., New York. EW) ll is Perm eT THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL At the Paris Exposition —— LS Gold Lion Cocktails RECEIVED THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL AWARDED TO AMERICAN COCKTAILS The Cook @ Bernheimer Co., New York First-Class Dealers Sell Them LIN OL CUFFS ARE THE BEST BUY THEM. CYCLE FITTED WITH BoAU INLY | ‘You will get more prompt attention and better service by mentioning JuDen when answering advertisements. (Choma Om Prva “Shave, or hair cut, sir?” ** Corns, you foot !” By Spectal Royal Warrant to Her Majesty the Queen. Dewar’s Scotch Whisky HAS BEEN AWARDED THE Grand Prize at the Paris Exhibition CAighat possible award) FOR SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE OVER ALL OTHER SCOTCH WHISKIES. JOHN DEWAR & SONS, LIMITED, Perth, Scotland; London, England. FREDERICK GLASSUP, Sole United States Ageut, New York. comicbooks.com