Judge, 1921-03-05 · page 18 of 32
Judge — March 5, 1921 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge magazine collects golf jokes and movie industry gossip—two popular 1920s topics. The golf section features several brief comedic exchanges about the sport's culture: a "poor" player who actually owns expensive equipment, a caddy's wordplay about being "in the rough," and a golfer blaming his caddie for a missed putt caused by the caddie's hiccup. The "Movies" section satirizes early Hollywood's emerging celebrity culture and commercial pressures. Jokes mock the instability of movie marriages (a director divorcing his actress-wife), professors' changing attitudes toward cinema, the dubious quality of subtitle translations, and stars' inflated salaries facing cuts. One item jokes that a woman who previously refused to attend horse races will go when more horses are racing—implying superficial attraction to spectacle. The humor relies on recognizing contemporary anxieties: golf as status symbol, cinema's questionable artistic merit, and Hollywood's commercial excess and personal drama.
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