Judge, 1919-04-12 · page 23 of 36
Judge — April 12, 1919 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This page features theatrical humor drawn from contemporary stage productions. The top scene depicts a romantic entanglement—a man sending an innocent negligée ("chemise") to a woman named Mabel as a gift, but his suspicious wife Geraldine discovers it, creating marital conflict. The joke plays on the comedy of misunderstanding and female jealousy. The lower scenes excerpt other plays: "The Honor of the Family" involves a nephew retrieving an elderly uncle's fortune from a scheming woman; "The Velvet Lady" and "The Little Journey" appear to involve similar romantic or social complications, with one caption suggesting physical violence ("a good rap on the head") as humor. The satire targets theatrical plots of the era—predictable domestic comedies centered on infidelity anxieties, scheming women ("vamps"), and physical slapstick. This reflects early 20th-century theater's stock situations and attitudes toward gender and marriage.
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From * Up 1x Maset’s Room” It was an innocent chemise Designed to please, perhaps to tease— A garment famed in fact and fable— Which Garry sent quite innocent, With good intent to naughty Mabel. He had no thought of trouble wrought, And being caught in wiles capricious, Nor did he dream it would be seen By Geraldine his bride suspicious. But women can annoy a man In more ways than the writers tell us, And make this life a place of strife With troubles rife when they are jealous, Walter Jones and Evelyn Gosnell “An uncle there was, and he made his prayer” to the vamp here exhibited. But he had a nephew, Col. Philippe Otis Skinner Bridau, who steps in and retrieves the old boy’s fortune from her designing digits. Palpably a sly dog,at re- trieving. From : “Tue Verver Lavy” From “Tue Littte Journey” Georgia O’Ra- “There’s nothing like a good rap on the mey, mixed as head to make us see stars that we never to mouthpieces. knew were in the firmament.” comicbooks.com