Judge, 1917-11-03 · page 2 of 28
Judge — November 3, 1917 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **Vanity Fair magazine advertisement**, not a political cartoon. The illustration depicts "the Night Operator"—a stylized female telephone operator in an evening gown, positioned dramatically at a switchboard. This personification was common advertising imagery of the era. The ad promotes Vanity Fair as "the most cheerful and stimulating of all magazines," emphasizing its coverage of literature, drama, society, and the arts. The "$1 for five issues" offer reflects pre-WWI magazine pricing. The "Green Dollar" coupon mechanism was a standard subscription incentive. The publication date (November 1917) places this during America's involvement in World War I, though the advertisement itself avoids wartime references entirely, instead focusing on escapism and cultural sophistication.
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HELLO! Are You There? VANITY FAIR The most cheerful and stimulating of all magazines. A| winter of it will keep you in touch with the social, literary, dramatic and artistic skirmishes in American life and insure}- you against dullness, boredom and intellectual old age. HE: burn brisk and mesinart, and in life, a politics e the ti eal brisker and more burning. — It is the avant courier, the drum major among Ame *s forward- marching magazines. © Seniy Fair This is the Night Operator at ANITY FAIR will help you cut in skirmishes, night oper- ations. You can’t keep up with these double- quick times without reading a double- quick magazine in which the big writers, humorists, and essay- ists are booming away on all of Life’s battle- fronts. Get the Cheero Spirit—for $1 One little Green Dollar Will Bring You the Next Five Issues of Vanity Fair—and even si. you mail the coupon promptly. In order that Americ you may intellectual advance guards, and become one of so keep up with all the surprises and en- tanglements of modern life, now—make you this special we we—here and time offer of an entire winter of Vanity Fair for one green dollar —just half the money you throw away on a single ill-chosen theatre ticket. Attention! Forward March! Eyes right! Salute the coupon! Tear it off, fill it out and let Vanity Fai —all winter— keep you in step with the times. Every Issue Contains THE STAGE: of ail that’s golag on — and com.ng theatre: and portraite the New whos who to York dramatt light THE ARTS: Pain! happeainzs In p Uterature, se ‘Ipt arehitectiire, HUMOR: Not tard-pie school, p the "8 nday s pptement Fein, but the movt ams: Ing." or « of our. writers and artist « ASSORTED NUTS: Por- traits” and revelations of all ‘the. best = and most carefully asworted nuts, a ESSAYS AND REVIEWS ning and une 0 ket fits, erttien and Vol. LXXI1 November 3, 1917 If you long—in the battle of life—to be come a Busy Bertha, and to stop being a dress “*Judark Publi bed Werk Brunswick Bui Wai Wyatt th | Joba A. Sleicher, President in small bore, fall in be-|= hind our special war- time offer—an entir | winter of Vanity Fair for One Green Dollar. Read the coupon. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ar, 5¢ numbers ~ 26 numbers nd, the poblishen ly ‘reported on went year, 10 cents pet copy; 1916 18 dependencies, year for postage: to a A Reviews DANCING: All varieties in the door, outdoor rhthmic and ball-room ex,onents, © spite FASHIONS : The last ‘ord — pronounced with & Parisian accent —on the smartest cothes for te Smartest men and. the stnartest women less ertt= painting, are and 00GS AND MCTORS Photographs and life hls tories of the most suc- ceavful 1918 modets of well-bred dogs and well- built motors the cus younger SHOPPING: Tho heart Known nd madd ul exeay= uithore Cover Design: Passed by the Censor A Dark Outlook A Friend to Her - - WRSVPL - : 2 . Furnace Mittens Playing Safe in China Doing His Bit - - - “Maplehurst 262 Does Not Answer” (Full page) - Sandwiches - Their Acuteness ‘As It Seems to an Aviator the First Time He is Fired Ie ls Better Cease foe Apprehension - Gaining Wisdom The Horrors of War Unsentimental Coincidences (Illustrated by Fellows) Short Notions Unwelcome In the Ranks What Might Have Been - Berween Curtains Smart Bits from Current Plays War Cartoons from Abroad Modern Woman Perverte! Proverbs CONTENTS C. L. CROMPTON “The World is Mine” (Full-page Drowing) - —- - - HAROLD A. VAN BUREN Editorial: Do Your Bit!—What Act Is It?—Sixes and Sevens - Drawn by C. W. KAHLES MORRIS WADE ED. : DON HEROLD BENJAMIN De CASSERES Drawn by ANDERSON Drawn by ORSON LOWELL Movie of a Clerk Trying to Make Up His Mind to Ask the Boss for a Raise (Full-pog: Drawing) _- SMALL STRICKLAND GILLILAN TENNYSON J. DAFT Upon (Full page) Drawn by RODNEY THOMSON “ser ‘of | The Last Line of German Trenches Finally Surrenders Drawn by TOUSEY H. W. DEE TOM P. MORGAN | WALT MASON TOM P. MORCAN J. A. WALDRON - TUDOR JENKS CHARLES A. LEEDY CAROLYN WELLS CYRIL ANDREW ANNA CADOGAN ETZ - W. E. NESOM Contributions to JUDGE'S Tench Christmas Fund, Jo and anecdotes from the boys in uniform, With the Collese Wits, Passing the Mustard, Stories with Smiles, 14 Humor from JUDGE'S staff of writers Other Illustration by Zim, Don Herold, Emil Flohri, Held comicbooks.com