Judge, 1923-04-28 · page 10 of 36
Judge — April 28, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Cartoon Analysis This is Ralph Barton's theatrical satire from *Judge* magazine. The cartoon depicts two separate theater productions: 1. **Top figure**: Cyril Maude in "If Winter Comes," an adaptation of A.S.M. Hutchinson's novel. The caricature suggests the production is "knocking" or defeating the source material. 2. **Bottom figures**: Dudley Digges and Margaret Wycherly in the Theater Guild's "The Adding Machine," where their characters (Mr. Zero and Miss Daisy Diana Dorothea Devore) find heaven boring without workplace rules and time-clocks to punch—a satirical commentary on the play's themes about mechanized modern life. The title's ironic reference to a spiritual hymn contrasts with both plays' earthly, material preoccupations. Barton satirizes contemporary theater by suggesting these productions focus on mundane concerns rather than transcendent or meaningful drama.
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“Everybody Talks about Heaven ain’t Goin’ There”—by Ralph Barton Mr. Cyril Maude, as Mark Sabre, at the head of an all-English team which manages to knock A. S. M. Hutc inson’s “If Winter Comes” for a row of goals. Oh, well, spring can’t be far behind Mr. Dudley Digges and Miss Margaret Wycherly, as Mr. Zero and Miss Daisy Diana Dorothea Devore, finding heaven a dull place without time-clocks to punch and rules to obey, in the Theater Guild’s fifth production of the season, “The Adding Machine.”