Judge, 1922-11-04 · page 18 of 36
Judge — November 4, 1922 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page lampoons *Traprock's* popular book series about Arctic exploration—likely "Eifelfel" or similar works that presented themselves as serious polar documentation. Judge magazine exposes the absurdity by depicting recognizable public figures (Charles Handsome Towne, Wallace Irwin, Rockwell Kent, George Chappell, Wayward Broun, and others) allegedly appearing in Traprock's supposedly factual North Pole accounts. The joke: these celebrities' presence at the Pole is obviously ridiculous, revealing Traprock's narratives as fabrication or exaggeration. Visual gags reinforce the mockery—a painter claiming superiority while painting the North Pole red; Broun "judging huskies" (pun on his journalistic role); children somehow present in Arctic conditions. The satire targets both Traprock's credibility and the gullible public appetite for sensationalized polar adventure narratives popular in the 1920s.
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Charles Handsome Towne is here snapped in the act of shooting down a polar bear, which he, however, under the is one of his impression own party Wallace Irwin passing a given point in the Easter parade on the Fifth Avenue of the Frozen North. The church in the background is “Saint George Chappell” the North Pole North, perhaps | red. As a because, as we painter in red, all know, the Mr. Kent ac- nights are knowledges no ever so much superior longer Frank Craven, Ruth Hale and their child Frank thinks the offspring looks like him, but Ruth is on bended knee thanking God that it doesn't Traprock exposes the well-known North to Ridicule Margaret Severn says it takes longer to put a child to sleep in the Rockwell Kent, the well-knovw painter, is him- self here de- picted painting Elsie Ferguson is here seen to be listening in on the North Pole in con- verse with its mate, the Souse Pole. They are speaking in Polish, of course) (Note: George Chappell and Mary Nash. Mr. Chappell has taken a peculiar interest in a chronicle of the North, “My Northern Exposure,” because of his love for the author This is the Boy who Grew Older. Way- ward Broun, whose association with Judge has made a judge of him, is here shown judging huskies. Wayward has grown into quite a huskie himsel!