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This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews** rather than political satire. The layout includes: **Advertisements**: Heublein cocktails (emphasizing machine-mixed precision), Burlington pocket watches, and a "Sexology" instructional book—typical early 20th-century magazine fare. **Book Reviews**: The "Judges Between Covers" column reviews two novels. "The Man Who Forgot" by James Hay Jr. concerns a temperance advocate with amnesia working to achieve nationwide prohibition. The review appears sympathetic to the protagonist's reform goals. "Victory" by Joseph Conrad receives brief mention. **"The Most Serious Man in the World"**: The right column features what appears to be **Charlie Chaplin** (identifiable by his bowler hat and cane silhouette) with text praising his comedic talent and seriousness—likely promoting his film work. The page reflects early 1900s concerns: Prohibition sentiment, popular literature, emerging film culture, and consumer products. No sharp political satire is evident here.

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Club Cocktails Served by men whose hospitality is of national repute —on every occasion that demands a real cocktail. Because no hand-mixed drink could pos- sibly approach the smoothness, mellow- ness and fragrance of these perfectly blended, aged in the wood cocktails. All popular kinds — ot your dealers G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO, Hartford New York London Importers of the famous Brand's A-1 Sance fj manufacture—adjusted ‘to the second, positions, tem the Szaulelte pew watch cases, 19 Jewel =, Burlington Rieder The great Burlington Watch Tay as tre rane De, by William H. Wai imparts in a cl way, in one volume: Koowlegee a Vooss Man Shosld t ry Keoe edge Mother Hay ke 08 Mother Should Lmpert vo Her Doughter, id Bath house swinging de 1b $ x 8 laches: with { CELEBRITY ART CO., 37 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. JUDGE'S BETWEEN COVERS By KOKERT MOUNTSIEK Passing Sentences oT! = MAN WHO FORGOT,"’ by James Jr. Into a refuge for down- man who has forgotten his name. He pt trying to remember it; all his efforts are directed toward get- ting away from the furies of hell who have been at his heels for a thousand years—in other words, he is suffering from d. t The swish of a woman's gown brings **John Smith i liness and fragrance and graciousness—a striking contrast to the man who collapses at her feet, whispering, ‘* Very white ashes on his shoes--ashes of dead souls—ashes of —poor dead souls ive years go over,"* to quote the next words that strike the reader's eyes, and, lo! we find Senator Mal- lon saying to his daughter, “This fellow Smith! Idon't like him!" ‘But I do,"* replies his daughter. And there you have itin a nutshell, but to crack the nut and see if it's a good one: Yes, Miss Mallon has recognized in Smith, the famous tem- perance worker, a face she saw five years before. Why shouldn't she like him?) Mr. Smith dances divinely, talks beautifully of matters that interest her and is working heart and soul for a great cause. Washing- ton society accepts Mr. Smith, but some people persist in asking, not ‘*Who is John Smith?’* but **What was John Smith?" Nobody wishes more to have an answer to the question than does John Smith himself. Anyway, Smith is in Washington to compel Congress to amend the Constitution so that the United States can cast forth liquor and patent medicines from Maine to California, from Florida to Washington, D. C, and State. Naturally you ask how Smith is going to force Congress to amend the Con- stitution, He will do it by the use of the following: his electric mind; his ability to strip a situation of all extraneous and in- consequential facts, so that he can see its stark-naked figure; the aid of a new editor; a sorrel horse prancing delicately at the head of a procession of tens upon tens of thousands of people marching through the streets of Washington and praying be- fore Congress; and the love of a beautiful woman. And John Smith, the man who forgot and who finally remembers, actually brings about nation-wide prohibition in this book, The author is an ideglist who writes as spirits move him, with the result that his novel a readable temperance tract that congressmen and their constitu- tents might well read the day before every and-outs ente to consciousness. She election, 66 VICTORY," by Joseph Conrad. A story that develops into one of love and death, with a Conrad atmosphere envelop- ing a company of remarkable characters brought together on a bit of land entirely surrounded by water. With me, ‘‘Victory"’ passed a supreme test; along with lemons, it served to comfort me on a disastrous ocean trip. The Most Serious Man in the World THe gospel truth! On and off stage, Charlie” is a very grave gentleman. In his funniest moments, “the funniest man in the world” takes himself seriously—all his slapstick tricks are solemn matters with him. That is one of the secrets of his success. Chaplin, trying to be funny, would never get a laugh, but Chaplin be- ing just himself—going sedately about his work — is naturally a “scream.” Film Fan for Film Fans gives you the “inside” story of Chaplin's methods, his personality, his rise to fame, etc. Mack Sennatt, who “discovered” Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Sidney Drew, Lloyd V. Hamilton and many of the other comedy stars of the screen also appear in Film Fun. Pictures galore, of personalities and scenes from | the best comedies of the month, funny incidents of studio life—scenarios of the newest rib-ticklers— make up the balance of twenty-four pages of the cheerful, human-interest side of the phytoplay comedy. Thirty-six pages, cach of which in itself 1s a full measured dime’s worth of entertainment, an taken together, will add to your enjoyment of the screen's humor many fold. Published monthly. On the newsstands the first of July. Ten cents a copy, or by subscription, $1.00 a year, or 25c for three months. FILM FUN 225 Fifth Avenue New YORK Published by Lestiesdudee Company comichooks.com