Judge, 1918-03-02 · page 28 of 36
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This page is primarily **theatrical advertising and reviews** rather than political satire. The main content consists of: **Theater Section ("Broadway and Thereabouts"):** Brief, witty capsule reviews of New York plays—employing puns and irreverent commentary. For example, "Flo-Flo" is described as "Chicken Salad, with very little dressing," mocking the play's substance. **"My Affinity" Poem:** A humorous philosophical piece about soulmates, expressing anxiety about meeting one's predestined romantic match—using early 20th-century pseudo-mystical language about "psychic sages" and "designed fate" to explore the absurdity of arranged or fated romance. **"Not Kindly Received" Joke:** A brief dialogue mocking a poor suitor advised to invest his hundred dollars in a one-way train ticket—satirizing economic disparity and dismissive attitudes toward the working poor. **Leslie-Judge Recruitment Ad:** Seeks theatrical representatives for small towns. The page reflects early 1900s Broadway culture and satirizes both theater and social pretension through humor rather than explicit political commentary.
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For Your [4 Amusement REPUBLIC riot Wea. esse at A. H. WOODS PRESENTS PARLOR, BEDROOM and BATH A fresh, flippant, farcical frolic By CW. Bell and Mark Swan, A. H. WOODS PRESENTS Business Before Pleasure with BARNEY BERNARD & ALEXANDER CARR By Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman My Affinity By ALLS. OMEWHERE my true afiinity, my twin, My destined double, Is waiting for me; but a thdught steals in That hints at trouble. Perhaps when we shall meet I may demur At the selection, Finding it difficult to give to her My soul's affection. At least I crave the privilege to view Before I ask her— This maid of Zanzibar or Timbuctoo Or Madagascar. It is not fair my mate should be ordained Unless I choose her; And when we mect—would Providence be pained If T refuse her? Within the soul, these psychic sages say, Is the attract But souls embodied may not, or they may, p satisfaction, I think (if I may say so without sin) It will be better If J select the prize I hope to win Before I get her. As for this purpose of designing fate, I feel quite certain That for the present she had better wait Behind the curtain, Not Kindly Received Black—What did her father advise when you told him you loved his daughter, but only had a hundred dollars saved u White—He advised me to invest it all in a one way railway ticket with no stop overs! Broadway and Thereabouts An Intimate Recue of the New York Theatres Bittetrep—Fulton. Emerging — safely from her plunge into Greek tragedy, Margaret Knglin relaxes and exhilarates in this refreshing English comedy. Cueer Up—Hippodrome. Ragtime pag- eantr] Cuu Cutrxn Cuow—Century. Oriental spectacle requiring the services of sev- eral hundred people and the most ex- pensive adjectives. Conan Revue—New pluribus humor. Copperneap, Tue—Shubert. Augustus Thomas’s latest entry for the Great American Play. Cure ror Curastes — 39th Street. William Hodge exhibits 2 new product of the Shubert Laboratories. Eyes or Youtu—Mavxine Elliott. In place of the too-familiar woman with a past, Marjorie Rambeau gives us a woman with several futures. Fro-FLo—Cort. Chicken Salad, with very little dressing. Rerertory—/ieux Colombier. cellent acting in a language you'd like to understand. Girt o’ Mixe—Bijou. Musical show, dappled with bright spots. Giesy Tr —Plymouth. Gay whimsy about a sedate Lochinvar and his adventurous rival. . Up—Liberty. Frank Craven de- picts the comic terrors of having one’s Feautiful bluff called. Happiness—Criterion. Laurette Taylor demonstrates a recipe for blis Jack 0? Lantern—Globe. Fred Stone’s notion of happiness is to be cheerfully crazy. . Kinc, Tue—Geo. M. Cohan. A satire on susceptibility as a national and femi- nine characteristic. Lrrtce Teacuer, Tue—Playhouse. This aves two small children from the psies, and a large lumber-jack from the bow-wows. Lomparot, Ltp.—Morosco. A fascinating ladies’ tailleur expresses his individuality in gorgeous gowns and broken English. Maponna or THe Future, Tue—Broad- hurst. Alan Dale shows us how shock- ing he can be when he really tries. Marionetres—Norzeorth. Tony Sarg’s Puppets, the safest dolls on Broadwa —IHudson. Arnold Daly, “Josephine,” goes back to his last year’s success. Maytime—ggth Street. he old-fash- ioned lovers bury their treasure of ro- mance under the apple tree in this theater, as contentedly as they did at the Shubert. Mipnicut Frouic, Tur—New Amster- dam Roof. An incentive for that tire- less feeling. Amsterdam. FE JUDGE Orr Cuance, Tue—Empire. Ethel Barry- more, feeling much better after “Ca- mille,” is doing a bright English comedy. Ou, Bov—Casino. Broadway’s oldest living success. On, Lavy, Lany—Princess. small but nifty affairs. On, Loox—Vanderbilt. show. Partor, Beproom anv Batu—Republic. Uproariously outrageous. Potty witn A Past—Belasco. Showing that jealousy may have a flare-back. Seven Days” Leave—Park. citing war melodrama. Seventeen—Booth. Positively Fresh. Delicious. Wholesome. Bully Sick a-Bep —Gaiety. Timely comedy Sinsap—W inter Garden. Al Jolson brings is bonnies to Broadway. tape Max, A—Cohan & Iarris. atones for purloining a dress suit by obligingly solving the shipbuild- ing situation. 1 Rose—Lyceum. Bold doings in the wilds, with Belasco in the wings. Wuy Marry?—Astor. This mooted question has seldom been so wittily _ mooted. or No—Longacre. Showing that she’s a great wife if she doesn’t weaken. Youtu—Comedy. Washington Square Players get up their nerve for a full- sized comedy. One of those The latest “Oh” spring Frugal MacDougal HERE young husband, Macdougal, Of habits exceedingly frugal. 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