Judge, 1922-12-30 · page 12 of 37
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# "The Fool" Play Review - Judge Magazine This page promotes Channing Pollock's play "The Fool," featuring photographs from the production with cast members identified. The accompanying text is satirical commentary on the play's moral message. The satire critiques the play's apparent central premise: a foolish character who converts others through moral persuasion—including a crippled man and the "woman of his heart." Judge's editors mock this sentiment, sardonically observing that if everyone were truly virtuous like "The Fool," there would be no poor people to patronize or charity work to perform. The joke cuts two ways: it suggests that society's charitable impulses partly depend on poverty existing, and that the play's naive idealism about human conversion is itself foolish. The final caption adds a tongue-in-cheek twist—perhaps the character isn't foolish after all if he successfully wins the woman's heart through virtue.
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Maude Truaz, Margaret Som ra, Lowell Sherman, Edith Shane, Lillian Ke and Arthar Elliot. “The Fool’ a splendid and popular play by Channing Pollock Daniel Gilchrist, who tackles the job, converts a poor cripple’s very poor pair of legs. James Kirkwood and Sara Sothern If we were all as foolish as “The Fool,” there wouldn't be any poor to give over- coats to, nor to fuss over Christmas for. No one to patronize. A foolish world, indeed! He also converts the woman of his heart. Perhaps he’s not so fool- ish, when all is said and done? Abert Burton, Arthur Elliot and James Kirkwood,