Judge, 1918-01-12 · page 17 of 28
Judge — January 12, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a theatrical column presenting humorous dialogue excerpts from Broadway productions of 1917. The page features five separate scene vignettes with quoted zingers from contemporary plays, attributed to their casts. The jokes target familiar situations: a commuter hoarding luggage and avoiding phone booths, a husband publicly reading his wife's love-note confession to a stranger, a telephone operator's curt efficiency, a husband unwittingly reading aloud a wife's note announcing she's leaving him for someone else, and soldiers/lovers making romantic declarations to each other. The satire mocks everyday frustrations (telephone operators, commuter chaos), marital discord, and wartime romance. The "Naughty Wife" and infidelity references suggest contemporary anxieties about wartime relationships. These aren't political cartoons but rather light entertainment—theatrical gossip presented as humor for Judge magazine's sophisticated urban readership.
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