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This page is primarily **advertisements and theater reviews**, not political satire. The left side features hotel and show ads; the right side reviews Broadway productions. The small humor pieces ("Ultimate Consumer," "The Smile Didn't Pay," etc.) are domestic jokes reflecting early 20th-century attitudes. One mocks marriage economics: a man created an enemy by repaying a pre-marital debt in front of the borrower's new wife—the joke being that wives disapprove of husbands' old obligations. Another satirizes penny-pinching ("Keep smiling" doctrine of consumer optimism fails when actual costs arise). The theater reviews are straightforward capsule critiques of current Broadway shows, mentioning performers like Lionel Barrymore and Fred Stone. Notable titles include "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" (a farce), "Business Before Pleasure" (about film producers Potash & Perlmutter), and various musicals. The page reflects 1910s-1920s New York entertainment and hospitality—when Judge magazine served urban audiences seeking cultural guidance and hotel recommendations.

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Amusement REPUBLIC wis Wed & sat. at 2:20 A. H. WOODS PRESENTS PARLOR, BEDROOM and BATH A fresh, flippant, farcical frolic By CW. Jark Swan, ELTINGE ““igse54 ere) A. H. WOODS PRESENTS Business Before Pleasure with BARNEY BERNARD & ALEXANDER CARR By Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman The Real Thing There is no questioning the efficiency of the food economist who found in his pan- try a mouse that had died of starvation. Ultimate Consumer “T made an enemy of Joe by repaying him that $5 I borrowed before he was married.” “Why?” “T gave it to him when his wife was present.” Hotel Ansonia 73rd St.—Broadway—74th St., NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY EXPRESS STATION MAGNIFICENT FIREPROOF HOTEL, CON- TAINING 1,400 ‘SITUATED IN THE VERY CENTRE OF TOWN. CONVENIENT TO ALL SHOPS AND THEATRES. Rooms and Bath, $2.50 per day For 2 Persons, $4.00 per day Canadian Money Is Accepted at This Hotel Without Discount. GEORGE W. SWEENEY, Late of Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Late Victorta Hotel, N. Y. Broadway and Thereabouts An Intimate Review of the New York Theatres Business Berore Pieasure—Eltinge. The troubles of Potash & Perlmutter, film producers, bring them to the verge of bankruptcy and the audience to the verge of h rics. Cueer Up—Mippodrome. merriment. Cuu Cun Cuow—Century. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, with the happy addition of many Barefoot Beauties. Corperuean, Tue—Shubert. Lionel Bar- rymore plays on the emotions of the audience with as much ease as he would on a pianola. Conan Revue—New Amsterdam. George scores the hits. Cure ror Curasies, A— 39th Street. Wm. Hodge exhibits his pet sanatorium. Eyes or Youtu—Maxine Elliott. Mar- jorie Rambeau is so impressed with the things she sees in a crystal that she in- sists on acting them out. Fro-Fro—Cort. A revue so intimate that you feel almost as though you were in- truding. Frencu Repertory—Vieux Colombier. Gallic Art billeted on Broadway. Garpen or ALLan—Manhattan. Camels, sand-storm, and everything! Girsy Trait—Plymouth. Romance vs. Society. Girt O" Mine—Bijou. musical show Goinc Up—Liberty. Musical comedy about an author who has a hard time living up to the exploits in his book. Hapriness—Criterion. Laurette Taylor holds a loose play together by sheer magnetism. Her Couxtry—Punch & Judy. war play. Jacx O° Lantern—Globe. Fred Stone makes old audiences young. Kixc, Tut—Geo. M. Cohan. Leo Di- trichstein demonstrates the winning way of the wicked. , Littte Teacuer, Tue—Playhouse. A plucky schoolmarm causes excitement in a Vermont village and the heart of a big lumberjack. LompBarpi, Lrp.—Morosco. ‘Tito, an Italian Sir Galahad, is a wonder at designing women’s clothes, but he is easy meat for a vampire Maponna or THe Futu hurst. Cubist morality. Marionettes—Norworth. (Special mati- nees only.) ‘Tony Sarg’s docile dolls. Master, Tue—Hudson. Arnold Daly does the superman stuff. Maytrime—ggth Street. Romance of old Washington Square, in Pre-Freudian Era. Mipnicut Frotic—N. Amsterdam Roof. A large evening in the small hours. Mammoth Light but crisp Latest JUDGE Five Minutes from Anywher Hotel Colonnade Chestnut at 15th Street Philadelphia, Pa. One square from Broad Street Station. Four ares from Reading Terminal. in the heart of the Theatre and Shopping Districts. Rooms $1.50 Up. With Bath, $2.00 Up Three Restaurants — Two Dance Floors Wire Reservations af Our Expense Ou, Bor—Casino. Almost old enough to be “Oh, Grandpa.” Ou, Loox—Vanderbilt. Opened after the greatest number of postponements on record. Partor, Beproom anp Batu—Republic. Hilarious horse-play. Potty with a Past—Lyceum. This lady’s wickedness was for shock pur- poses only. Seven Days’ Le two German spi SEveNTEEN—Booth. of adolescence. Sick-a-Bep—Gaiety. invalid. ttor-Mapve Man, A—Cohan and Har- ris. Showing that though kind hearts are more than coronets, glad rags are what really count. Ticer Rose—Lyceum. a winsome wild-cat. Yes or No— Longacre. “yes,” she’s no lady. Youtu — Comedy. Washington Square Players review naiveté from their pin- nacle of sophistication. The Smile Didn't Pay Impractical optimist—Get that frown off your face. Haven’t you ever tried that doctrine “Keep Smiling”? Mere man—Yes, I have. Once I forced a grin when the garage man charged me two dollars for cleaning a spark-plug. Next time he soaked me double. ye—Park, Wherein are gloriously foiled. The tragi-comedy Farce about a fake Leonora Ulric as If she says Incomprehensible “Tsn’t it queer?” “What?” “Why, Smith procured a divorce from his wife in order to be free——” “Yes, and then——” “And then, hin six months he was married again! - Not To Be Caught Clerk—We have taken ten dollars off the price of this suit. Customer—Ye can kape it, thin. Don’t yez think Oi want me money’s worth? WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME simple thing to patent? Protect your ideas. they may bring you wealth. Write for “Needed Inventions” and “I!ow t@ Get Your Patent and Your Money.” Randolph & Co, Patent Attorneys, Dept. 129, Washington, D. C. comicbooks.com inj we are M all