Judge, 1918-03-23 · page 26 of 32
Judge — March 23, 1918 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **theatrical advertising and criticism**, not political satire. The left side features Broadway theatre advertisements for plays like "Business Before Pleasure" and "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath." The center column, titled "Broadway and Thereabouts," provides brief witty reviews of current New York theatrical productions. The humor is theatrical rather than political—quick, punchy critiques of shows and their stars. For example, it jokes about Lionel Barrymore "feeding his audience on thrills" and describes "Maytime" as "old-fashioned romance that's timely these spring days." The right side advertises an "Old Town Canoe" company promoting recreational boating. There is **no significant political cartoon or satire visible** on this page. It's essentially a theatre section mixing advertisements, reviews, and consumer goods marketing typical of early 20th-century magazine layouts.
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For Your Amusement W, fed St Evel Matinees W ‘SStunday a2 # at 8.30, ad ELTINGE A. H. WOODS PRESENTS BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE with BARNEY BERNARD & ALEXANDER CARR By Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman WEST Mats. CH ST. NIGHTS 8:30. REPUBLIC Herta ETE 238 A. H. WOODS PRESENTS PARLOR, BEDROOM and BATH with FLORENCE MOORE & JOHN CUMBERLAND Wm. A. West 48th. Brady’ ‘, PLAYHOUSE Mats. Wed. and Sat THE LITTLE TEACHER Greatest Comedy-Drama Since ‘‘The Music Master” By Harry James Smith, with MARY RYAN W. g2nd St. Eva. 8:20. | COHAN & HARRIS Was *Wea'ing' St $33: COHAN & HARRIS Present Funniest American Comedy of Recent Years A TAILOR-MADE MAN Extremely Novel, Clever P Pag by by HARRY JAMES SMITH Try This Chest FREE! ‘at great saving (. Os-page ilurdrated Depts NEW HOTEL BINGHAM, Philadelphia In the center of everything. fortable rooms. Hot and cold running water in every room Only hotel having direct Subway connection with all rail- road. stations and ferries. Rool garden. Club. breakfast. Special luncheons, Rooms without bath. $1.50; with bath. $2.00 per day and up. = FRANK KIMBLE, 24, Statovvttte. 86. Large, well lighted and com- HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos. 32, 34 and 36 Bleecker Street Branch Warehouses: 30 Beekinan Street, New York, and 32 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J- ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER Broadway and Thereabouts An Intimate Reoue of the New York Theatres Business Berore Pieasure—Eltinge. Potash and Perlmutter, having gradu- ated from the cloak and suit trade into the “fillum” industry, learn the A, B, C of vampires. Cueer Up—Hippodrome. Unusual ac- tivity on the Eastern Front of Sixth Avenue. Cuu Cuin Cuow—Century. Spectacle of oriental beauty. Bring your opera glasses. Conan Revue—New Amsterdam. Bright hits at current plays. Copperneap, Tue—Shubert. Lionel Bar- rymore feeds his audience on thrills. Cure For Curasies, A—39th Street. William Hodge delivers a touching tribute to bread and milk. Eyes or Youtu—Maxine Elliott. While Marjory Rambeau, the regular star, is laid up Jane Gray bravely carries on. Fro-Fro—Cort. What every woman wears, . Fotrow tHe Giri—44th Street Roof. Musical show that starts off peplessly but picks up fun as it goes along. Frencn Reprertory—Vieux Colombier. Beautiful moving pictures during which the mere American may glean an occa- sional word. Garpen or ALtan—Manhattan. Till the sands of the desert grow cold, and all that sort of thing. Goinc Up—Liberty. Frank Craven, scared yet posing as an aviator, loves a girl so much that he is willing to leave the happy ground for her. Harpiness—Criterion. Philosophy by Hartley Manners. Personality by Laurette Taylor. Her Country—Punch & Judy. in the home. Jack o? Lantern—Globe. Fred Stone indulges in cheerful conniptions. Let’s Go—Fulton. Rock and White warm up for their stunt in the Mid- night Frolic. Littte Teacner, Tue—Playhouse. A winsome schoolmarm and her loving lumberjack. Lomsarot, Ltp.—Morosco. and his less model models. Kultur A model man Love Mitt, Tue—g8th Street. Tuneful piffle Martonettes—Punch & Judy. (Satur- day mornings only.) Tony Sarg’s ex- emplary puppe Master, Tue—Hudson. Despite the Daly funeral orations over this play it still lives. Maytime—ggth Street. Old-fashioned ro- mance that’s timely these spring days. Mipnicut Frotic—New Amsterdam Roof. Mr. Ziegfeld’s little female flock. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its Purity Has Made It Famous” All aboard for Pleasure Cove! “We are off for a day of fun! We're going to paddle up stream put in at some shady cove and enjoy our picnic lunch. Then gather water lilies, take some ‘snap shots’ and in the cool of twilight, glide down stream sing- ing old-time songs.” An Old Town Canoe will help keep you physically fit. Send for catalog, which also shows the “Sponson Model,” the safest canoe in the world. OLD TOWN CANOE CO. 1745 Main Street Old Town, Maine Mrs. Warren’s Proression—Comedy. Where Polished (Washington Square Players.) are the censors of yester year? Orr Cuance, Tue—Empire. persiflage. On, Boy!—Casino. After its long career at the Princess, is enjoying a ripe old age at this theater. On, Lapy, Lapy!—Princess. Why “Oh, Boy!” had to move on. On, Loox!—Vanderbilt. you care to. Partor, Beproom ano Batu—Re public. Florence Moore gi fancy lessons in the art of being wicked. Potzy Wit a Past—Lyceum. A parson’s daughter camouflaged as a vampire. Seven Days’ Leave—Park. Two Ger- man spies and a submarine are satisfac- torily accounted for. SEVENTEE Booth. Willie Baxter gets romantic in his father’s dress suit. Sick-a-Bep—Gaiety. About a healthy invalid and his beauteous “nursie.” Sinsap—Winter Garden. Jolsoniana. Tattor-Mape Man, A—Cohan & Harris. This hero has better luck with borrowed glad-rags than Willie Baxter did. Also listen, if Ticer Rose—Lyceum. Mr. Belasco’s farthest North. Toot! Toot!—Cohan. “Excuse Me” brought back to life with music. Witp Duck, Tue—Plymouth. Nazimova gives us Ibsen’s famous dramatic canvasback. Wuy Marry?—Astor. and see for yourself. Yes orn No—Longacre. If wives are beset with perils and temptations like these, Don’t ask us—go it’s a wonder any woman dares get married, hi