Judge, 1916-03-11 · page 21 of 28
Judge — March 11, 1916 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily features **advertisements and celebrity content** rather than political satire. The "Celluloid Sonnets" section celebrates **Mabel Normand**, a silent film comedian known for slapstick roles in "slavey rags and speckled socks." The poem humorously laments that seeing her in dignified "human garb" ruins the comedic magic—it's like asking a rose to play a common vegetable ("yarb"). This reflects early cinema's rigid typecasting. The main editorial discusses fundraising for the **Actors' Fund Home**, a charitable institution for retired entertainers. It notes the motion-picture industry volunteering half a million dollars—significant for legitimizing the nascent film industry as a respectable profession. The remaining content consists entirely of **product advertisements**: Vafiadis cigarettes (marketed as refined, approved by royalty), Carstairs rye whiskey, Faultless pajamas, and spring water. These high-end brands targeting affluent readers dominated Judge magazine's revenue.
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CELLULOID SONNETS MABEL NORMAND When Folly looked earth over for a maid To personate her on this gloomy sphere, Some kink of fortune caused you to appear In slavey rags and speckled socks arrayed, Your sprightly spirit never seems to jade, Your drollery, your garments quaint and queer, Would wake a grim dyspeptic from his bier And cause his frown of forty years to fade. You win from me a hearty cachinnation, But having seen you once in Auman garb, My laughter comes against my inclination, My soul esthetic feels a poignant barb. It somehow seems to me like desecration To cast a rose to play a garden“ yarb"! —W. Kee Maxwell A Noble Charity T' ERE is under way a commendable effort to endow the Actors’ Fund Home on Staten Island with a fund of $1,000,000 that will make pleas for the support of this noble charity hereafter unnecessary. ‘The regular theater, by a series of benefits and otherwise, purposes to raise a large sum toward this endowment, and the motion- picture industry has volunteered to con- tribute half a million, which will be made up of percentages of receipts during a certain period and contributions from persons engaged in that industry. There is no class of persons that has been at all times as generous as the actors in working and giving for charitics of every description, and to permanently endow the Home where the superannuated and needy of this great profession may find comfort in their declin- an object which should interest every person who has found entertainment in the theater. TOE Its purity has made It famous” ‘Se the ease of six glass stoppered bottles. (ADvT.) SUDO AS ™ ‘(a@fiadis Parveyed to the Houschol 4 ‘the Khodive, the imperial Courl of Austria Hungary His Royal Highness Pine. Philip of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, the imperial Court of. Japan. etc. etc. the principal clubs and the regimental messes of bidia. Burmah and Canada ¢ Those Americans who have smoked our Vafiadis (Vah-fee-ah-dis) Cigarettes ‘abroad"may now obtain them in Die Uniled Nates ~ because to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. who import themswe have also given the sole right to manufacture them from our Cairo formula. \_ Theodora Vafiadis & Ca CALCUTTA BOMBAY: LONDON RANGOON CARO) | Packages fa. 25. Tins of 10 4270 npn tes Rigen pea tole ful ahaha ilaces Brady ponte rept ony Prep Address Lagee eer Ba Fidh Avenue Sew York Ci Fifty-six Years before the Telegraph mild, _ mellow Carstairs able bottle—* A Good Bottle to Keep Good Whiskey Good.” — the emblem of restful peace E Rosenfeld & Co Baltimore and New York comicbooks.com