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# "The Collegiate Decorator" – Judge Magazine Analysis This page satirizes 1920s college culture and the pretensions of young decorators furnishing dormitory rooms. The main article, by Phil Newill of Stanford '25, offers tongue-in-cheek advice on room decoration—placing rival college pennants on floors to trip guests, cutting out advertisements from magazines like *La Vie*, and arranging cigar butts as "festive clusters." The accompanying illustrations show stereotyped female "types" (Blond, Dark, Intellectual) and a humorous dialogue where a couple discusses their dance's duration. The "Auto-suggestion" cartoon depicts a woman proudly displaying her toy automobile. The satire targets collegiate affectation and pretense: students mimicking sophisticated European aesthetics while their efforts remain laughably amateur. References to *La Vie* (a French fashion/lifestyle magazine) underscore the aspirational, vaguely Continental posturing typical of 1920s college social life. The overall tone mocks youthful attempts at bohemian sophistication.
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The Collegiate Decorator Genial chats on modes and things like that by Phil Newill, Stan- ford *2 ONE OF THE most effective touches in prelimi- y stages of deco- the well- on by room is J. O'Lovenux, achieved by placing Columb chic sign—“Ladies’ rch OY caw. de, Entrance” or some- Modern. on the door. This gives the impression sophistication, ow. Among aon the smarter and re up-to-date e is the placing ¢ of a rival college $ pennant upon the floor next to the doorway. Such a decoration may b« pended upon to liven up any guest, if not to trip him up completely. 1 s, besides, the ad- vantage of show- ing that you do not especially care for Blond. rival institu- thoughtful chap may obtain really startling ef- fects by merely takir ertain arts of current advertising matter in some of the more elusive periodicals, cutting them out in appro- P poses, and securing them to the wainscoting either in the con- ventional border Drawn by Exizasetu Roper, Stanford Hunch by Nortucutt Ey, Stanford Jack—Is this our dance? Jill—About half of it already has been. design, or in the rather more dashing decorations, just so it is strung to gi rosette figure. The: when a sprinkling cheerily hospitable greeting to the visitor by of La Vie is added to give the nec removing hishat at aclean sweep as he enter: verve, will prove a constant source of fa With these details complete, nothing re cination to the more romantically inclined mains but to weave of your roommates, and will make the the netting of elec apartment a gathering place for all sorts tric light fixture of gay little parties the homespun pat More than anything else, the appropriate tern is recommend- placement of placards, such ed, both for com- as, for example, “You Dive fort and style. at Your Own ,” over the This done, one window paneling, denotes may fill up the that you have a broad, not apartment with an- to say thick, sense of humor tique furniture, This is coming into vogue leaving, of course, n this season. the proper spacing One must be careful never of 3 15/100 inches, to let the perfectly appointed and one has the salon be opened without first ittle home com- preparing a festoon of some Intellectual. plete, with plenty quaint articl Half inch of room on the win- cigar butts strung on maca- dow ledge for sleeping and dressing. roni tendrils are at present tt preferred. This festive The only secret some men can keep is P cluster may be placed in any a bad golf score. “Auto-suggestion.” manner with regard to the Les Conklin, Columbia 9 comicbooks.com