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This is primarily a **theater advertising and review page** from Judge magazine, a major American satirical publication. The left side features paid advertisements for Broadway shows (typical for magazines of this era), while the right side contains brief, witty capsule reviews of current New York theatrical productions. The reviews use **sharp, dismissive humor** characteristic of Judge's style. For example, "Business Before Pleasure" notes the protagonists encounter "oi! oi!" troubles becoming film magnates (mocking Yiddish-inflected speech), while "Copperhead" quips that being a hero "isn't necessarily all brass bands and bouquets." The tone is **urbane and sometimes condescending**, reflecting early-20th-century theater criticism. References to plots and performers (like Ethel Barrymore, Al Jolson, Clifton Crawford) would have been immediately recognizable to Judge's educated, theater-going audience. The small cartoon in the upper left ("For Your Amusement") appears decorative rather than satirical.

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For Your Amusement W, {2nd St. Evenings at 80. jednesday and “SSturday at ELTINGE A. H. WOODS PRESENTS BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE with BARNEY BERNARD & ALEXANDER CARR By Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman WEST 42 ST. NIGHTS 8330. REPUBLIC Sat Wasting STE B88 A. H, WOODS PRESENTS. PARLOR, BEDROOM and BATH with FLORENCE MOORE & JOHN CUMBERLAND “None can afford to miss it ‘all can afford to DILLINGHAM oveatent matinse, z.. HIPPODROME seeeg by R.M. Burnside Seats 6 Weeks Ahead COHAN & HARRIS Sista ina'St 23% COHAN & HARRIS Present Funniest American Comedy of Recent Years A TAILOR-MADE MAN Extremely Novel, Clore tier by Hapey JAMES SMITH Bais PLA YHOUSE wise Wea Baa: THE LITTLE TEACHER Greatest Comedy-Drama Since “The Music Master” By Harry James Smith, with MARY RYAN WINTER GARDEN “iii. Maat E" AL JOLSON 1 “SINBAD” BOOTH 45th W. of B'way. Wo. 22% Mats Wed. & Sat. at 2:30. The STUART mus’ SEVENTEEN in Tarkington's Maxine Elliott’s 22. °;o"%a Bit £33 EYES OF YOUTH ASTOR 45th & B'way. stata Her P45. ons. Clifton Crawford in FANCY FREE MARJORIE RAMBEAU Broadway and Thereabouts An Intimate Reoue of the New York Theatres By L. M. Betinpa—Empire. Ethel Barrymore and her gallant supporters provide genteel grins. Bic Scene, Tue; Ive; France—Greenwich Village. does itself proud. Business Berore Pieasure—Eltinge. Despite their training in the cloak and suit trade Potash and Perlmutter en- counter oi! oi! such troubles in becom- ing film magnates. Coppernean, THe—Shubert. Lionel Bar- rymore shows that being a hero isn’t necessarily all brass bands and bou- quets. Cure For CuraBies, A—39th Street. Dr. William Hodge turns his patients into war gardeners. Dou.t’s House, A—Plymouth. Scandi- navian domestic trouble created by Nazimova. Eyes or Youtu—Maxine Elliott. Her fractured limb having been duly healed, Marjorie Rambeau steps gracefully back into the part which Jane Grey has been holding for her. Fancy Free—Astor. Marilynn Miller is quite individual, but Clifton Crawford makes love to any number of girls. Fio-Fro—Cort. Presumably a drama- tization of Jupce’s famous cover “No Man’s Land.” Goinc Up—Liberty. Syncopated aviation. Jack-O’ Laxtern—Globe. Fred Stone enjoys his last few weeks of liberty before the movies get him. Kiss Burciar, Tue—Cohan. The theft is aggravated by singing and dancing. Littce Teacner, Tue—Playhouse. Ven- turing into Vermont, she encounters narrow prejudices and a broad-shoul- dered hero. Lomsarp1, Lrp.—Morosco. Successful comedy in which the leading themes are love, chiffon and spaghetti. Man Wuo Stayep at Home, Toe—48th Street. A “slacker” spy sleuth. Marriace or Conventence, A—Henry Miller. Admitting that “The Foun- tain of Youth” didn’t open his nice, new theater more than ajar, Henry Miller calls in Billie Burke and holds a revival. Maytime—Broadhurst. An interrupted romance continued a few generations later. Mrpnicut Frotic—New Amsterdam Roof. After theater tid-bits to eat and to look at. Nancy Lee—Hudson. Charlotte Walker almost wrecks the life of a callow speed- ster and then marries the latter’s sage adviser. Ou, Lavy, Lapy!—Princess. Sprightly, and tinkling with smart tunes. Tue Map oF Bohemia JUDG: Ou, Loox!—Vanderbilt. Harry Fox, x the struggling hero, finds that a roll of thousand-dollar bills are a real help to success, and an excuse for various Songs and dances. Pair or Petticoats, A—Bijou. War. time wit in a London atmosphere. Partor, Beproom ano Batu—Republic. Broadway hilarity in a Jersey setting. Pouty Witn a Past—Belasco. She saves Rex for, and then from, another girl, but in each case with the explicit au. thority of Mr. Belasco. Rainsow Girt, Tue—New Amsterdam. Hardiest of the spring crop of musical shows. Seven Days’ Leave—Park. Capt. Keys invents a submarine detector, and then the heroine goes him one better by swimming out and attending to a U-boat herself. Seventeen—Booth. Willie, at the awk- ward and mushy age, suffers from a younger sister at the formidable age. Servant ix tHe House, Tue—Vieux | Colombier. Not an attempt to solve the domestic help problem, but a dramatic sermon against hypocrisy. Sinnap—Winter Garden. ‘Al Jolson sings and prances so affectingly that many damsels are moved to hit the runway trail. Tattor-Mape Man, A—Cohan & Harris. A golden opportunity daringly grasped and wittily lived up to. Ticer Rose—Lyceum. The power of the law versus the unwritten law, in the Canadian wilds and woollies. “The mission of this paper is to preack the gospel of cheerfulness” Copyright, 1918, by Lestiedudge Company. Entered at the Post-office at New York as Tetephooe 6633, Madison Square. wel Jeslied ude Compa Brunswick Building, 225 Filth Avenue, New John A. Sleicher, President Reuben P Perviton Maxwell, Fe A. F. Rollaver, Treasurer. A. Waldron, Literary Editor. Hamilton, Lawton Mai Art Director. Associate Editor States and Great Britain. GE cannot be found at any newsstand: the publisher wil be under qbligation if that fact be promptly reported PORNCK NUMBERS” Present year, 10 cents per copy: 1917 10 cents; 1916, 20 cents, ete Postage free in the United States, its dependencies, and Mer- ico, To Canadian Provinces add 50 cents a year for postage; te all f countries add 81.00 a year. . UDGE cannot undertake to return unsolicited manuscri or drawings unless they are accompanied by full postage for that purpose. ‘Advertising Department Offices Brunswick Building - - - New York Walker Building — ettee larquette Building b Henry Building - ‘Seattle Judge is printed by the Schweinter Press. comicbooks.com | | | | Fie | | |