Judge, 1921-07-09 · page 33 of 36
Judge — July 9, 1921 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertisement for Leslie's Weekly magazine** (July 9th issue), not a political cartoon page. The small cartoon at left, by R.B. Fuller, is a Hollywood satire about aspiring actresses: a sister tells "Willie" there's "nobody in it" and "too little fer that"—mocking how hard it is to succeed in movies. The accompanying article "Picking Peaches for the Screen" criticizes the film industry's arbitrariness: talented Mary fails repeatedly while ditzy "Susie Dimpledolly" succeeds by pure luck and becomes a star earning huge money. The reference to **Norma Talmadge** (a famous 1920s silent film star) grounds this in contemporary Hollywood. The satire mocks both the unfairness of casting and the mystification audiences feel about how stardom actually happens. The Leslie's ad highlights era-relevant topics: Mary Baker Eddy's centenary, Soviet Russia seeking American business help (post-Revolution), and a "lie detector" technology article—reflecting 1920s-30s preoccupations.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Drawn by R. B. Tonten Siste—No, Wie, 0’ COURSE THERE’S xopopy IN 1T! It’s A HEAP TOO LITTLE FER THAT. Picking Peaches for the Screen (Continued from page 26) And little potential Mary, turned down for the thirteenth time, tearfully gives up trying to break into the wicked movies, and wearily goes back to home and mother and married life with all its hardships and three square meals a day. While Susie Dimpledolly, the foolish little fluffy-head whose mother hasn’t any more sense than she has, comes around again and is chosen by chance for a small part that has a laugh connected with it — and so is remembered — and chosen again —and again — and at last becomes a star —and gets as many bucks a week as she has pitchers in the poipers. Then folks wonder how in the world it ever happened to come about that a girl with so much pure genius ever happened to be born in the Dimpledolly family. But of course, there are exceptions. Ask any casting-director. Why, this very week he’s discovered two youngsters who’ve got the goods! Either one of ’em Sure to put Norma Talmadge right out of the running in another year or so! Oi, oi, the movies! It’s a great life. (Next week: “How long cana picture last?”) Another Notable Issue Leslie’s For J uly 9th Here are a few of the leading features of this number of Leslie’s: THE CENTENARY OF MARY BAKER EDDY By Campbell MacCulloch COME OVER AND BOSS THE JOB, BEGS RUSSIA By Charles Ferguson How a Soviet official bids the great business and technical men of America to assume the task of rehabilitating his country. THE LIE DETECTOR By Hereward Carrington, Ph.D. HIRE A FAT, MARRIED, PROFANE CRANK! By Richard Barry AN OASIS OF SUBLIME BEAUTY By Le Roy Jeffers, F.R.G.S. THE FORTY-SEVEN A fascinating new Short Story. Other notable illustrated features you can’t afford to miss in Leslie’s For July 9th Get it from your newsdealer NOW—and EVERY WEEK comicbooks.com