Judge, 1910-07-23 · page 9 of 16
Judge — July 23, 1910 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes Edmond Rostand's theatrical hit "Chantecler" (1910), a play featuring a rooster as protagonist. The comic shows a character's theatrical preparations and encounters with actual barnyard fowl. The satire mocks both the pretentious French play and the character's affected, verbose manner. References to "eggatorium," "holy ham and sacred omelets," and theatrical declarations about eating chicken ("c-h-i-c-k-e-n") parody the play's grandiose tone. The character threatens to "Fletcherize" (chew thoroughly, per health fad Fletcherism) the rooster's drumsticks. The bottom panels show slapstick comedy as actual roosters assault the would-be actor—deflating his theatrical pomposity through physical humor. Judge ridicules both the intellectual pretensions of the original French drama and American audiences' hunger for such "highbrow" entertainment, suggesting reality (and roosters) matter more than artistic affectation.
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JUDGE T AS “CHANTECLER.” », I mean ‘cockadoodle uh!’ Wonder if that will —— Perhaps ‘all is for the best. A long ride ona train tires me, anyway. Holy don't béieve I’m alarming him at all. He’s still ham and sacred omelets! I’m going to land in an eggatorium as sure as I'ma bi- erve of the lower classes is astounding.—— plane. Will you kindly observe that little bantam down there sharpening his spurs on a nail file and making awful faces at me.—— —— Crow, thou red-headed barnyard thug! But hark, foul fowl, I sup, breakfast, and lunch, from now on till the next comet, on c-h-i-c-k-e-n in the hope of one day having you before me ona platter. Then will I Fletcherize thy drumsticks !" s sensati# cuce before—that was when, in a com- ly she ¥4 remarkably well preserved ! —— comicbooks.com