Judge, 1914-04-04 · page 7 of 24
Judge — April 4, 1914 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple brief comic sketches and jokes typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine humor, plus a real estate advertisement. **The main cartoon** depicts a real estate agent pitching property near marshland, with the sales pitch reduced to pointing out an attractive moon—satirizing how agents oversell mediocre land through distraction and false enthusiasm. **The text pieces** include: - **Actors' dialogue** mocking modern cinema's demands for stunts and "zing" versus classical theater's reliance on Shakespeare—reflecting 1920s anxiety about cinema replacing stage acting with spectacle. - **"Weaknesses of the Great"** targets an unnamed wealthy, successful man admired publicly but dismissed by his own family—likely satirizing celebrity worship and the gap between public image and private reality. - Other brief sketches joke about college romance, parenting trends (stuffed bulldogs replacing dolls), and marital dynamics. The humor reflects genteel early 20th-century sensibilities: gentle mockery of social pretension, gender relations, and changing entertainment media.
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ible les, 1 me the | AN ADDED ATTRACTION Real estate agent (winding up a particularly earnest appeal) —And say! look at that for a moon. Can you beat it? green waves, rescuin’ a loidy what's t'rowed off a pirut ship.”” “Well, I gotta jump into weter, ain't I? And when I get dried off, I gotta hike downtown and be t’rowed out of a skyscraper window by a gang 0’ counter- feiters.”’ “Gee, I envy dem old-time actors what didn’t have nothin’ to do but come out and talk lines from Shakespeare or some of dem old guys.”” “I'd like to see what’d happen to Shakespeare if some of his junk ever got to our director in scenario form." “Why, he wouldn’t be one, two, 'leven! You gotta put some zing in your dope dese days. People won't stand for this art fer gosh sake game no more."’ “‘And you betcher gotta be a real actor in dese of ridin’ and jumpin’ in front of the ca il “‘Surest thing! What'd them old Booth and Barrett supporters know about doin’ a forty-foot fall?’” (Both sarcastically) “Haw, haw!" Weaknesses of the Great HE HAS made a lot of money; All his ventures seem to pay. He can make a speech that’s funny, ‘And he boxes well, they say. He is known across the water And in nearly every State, But his wife and son and daughter Won't believe that he is great. He has won respect in science For his book concerning Mars; He invented an appliance Used for ventilating cars. Other great men hail him gladly, He has won a pile of pelf; But he always bungles badly When he tries to shave himself. —S. E. Kiser. Strong Evidence “This girl is only a college flirt. How do you know that she really loves you?” “She dyes her hair to conform with my class colors, dad. A fellow couldn’t ask for any greater proof of devotion than that.” Beginning Young Mrs. Gramercy—Do you think she’s bringing up her daughter right? Mrs. Park—Indeed she is, my dear! She gave the little thing a stuffed bulldog to play with instead of a doll. Rubbing It In “(My dear,’’ remarked Jones, who had just finished reading a book on ‘‘The Won- ders of Nature,”’ ‘‘this really is a remark- able work. Nature is marvelous! Stu- pendous! When I read a work like this, it makes me think how puerile, how in- significant is man.’’ “Huh!"’ sniffed his better half. ‘A woman doesn’t have to wade through four hundred pages to find out the same thing.”’ The Star Attraction Hostess—1 am glad you children de- cided to come for dinner. Little Josie—We didn’t tum for dinner; we tum to hear Willie’s grandpa eat his soup. comicbooks.com