Judge, 1918-08-17 · page 23 of 32
Judge — August 17, 1918 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents humorous scenarios extracted from Broadway comedies of the era. **"A Tailor-Made Man"**: A working-class pants-presser (John Paul Bart) fraudulently infiltrates high society by wearing a borrowed dress suit. The joke—visible in the circular scene—is that he's impersonating a gentleman while Mrs. Stan-Laws tries to place him socially. His desperate name-dropping of "Mr. Huber" (his actual tailor-employer) exposes his pretense. The satire mocks both social climbing and the superficiality of "society," where appearance and bluffing substitute for actual breeding. **"Oh, Lady! Lady!"**: A woman pays a janitor five dollars to overlook rule-breaking visits to a bachelor's apartment. The joke is transactional corruption of propriety—morality literally has a price. **Lower right**: A caption about dancer Dorothy Dickson includes a humorous note that the rabbit she holds was "loaned for the occasion by Central Park Zoo," suggesting absurdist theatrical spectacle.
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