Judge, 1923-05-12 · page 16 of 36
Judge — May 12, 1923 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine presents satirical sketches of female college types circa 1924. The left side features a humorous "phrenology" head diagram (a pseudo-scientific head map) humorously attributing discoveries to various historical figures, likely mocking pseudo-intellectual college pretensions. The right column contains character sketches of recognizable "co-ed" archetypes: Mable (the athletically-obsessed swimmer), Meribeth (the revenge-seeking heartbreaker who manipulates men), Marion (the perpetually childlike dancer), and Donaldine (the modest actress). The bottom includes poetry and illustrations about college social life—a woman's nightly beauty routine ("A Night and a Day") and a suggestive quatrain about seduction ("A wicked line"). The overall satire gently mocks 1920s college women as vain, manipulative, or stereotypically flighty, reflecting era-typical gender attitudes while presenting these female students as notable enough subjects for extended commentary.
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A College Anthology by Henry Mack, Stanford '24 Drawings by Fred Fisher, Stanford *2; Eis nothing pains so much tch Mable swim. Mable is a dear girl, but she just will be athletic. Her hands are alwas blistered from swinging a tennis racquet, which she does execrably; he nose is usually peeling from an excess of golf, i ‘ which she herself admits ) DAVID me LS? ‘ is not on a par with her AVID BELASCO INVE | 2 } tennis; her neck is al- SN THE COTTON GIN he pC JOHN BUF ways red from too m PATRICK HENRY DI \ | exposure in a. low INTRODUCES E oe thing suit. 1 } THE ORIGINAL DIRECTS THE [ \ | | Mable once hear SHIAUNE BATTLE OF BUNKER KILL y male friend swimming fe ceptional, and sh and there chose that for her major activity. Above is Mable’s ming form. Judge { yourself. ERIBETH is eccen- the first to cal CHERR your attention to So They Once, when a mere neh DP of a girl, Meribeth was ia 4 in love, but her he was broken by the cr cruel man. Now Mer beth is out to re her sex. She lures t pecting male, n breaks his hear BE LIACC HOPS DOWN Hi hers was broken. beth gets her biggest kick out of being asked if she has a_ heart. z laughs. spider, have . doesn't with the rest of the women. ARION has_never grown up. She is mple little child t, although she ‘awful, . : ful long dwesses Drawn by Cnester Gouin, Northwestern. = style mans d ves to dance, A cross-section of ye co-ed’s well-known top floor. A Night and a Day “Please—” naught by Elsa Barber, Stanford *25 by Joe Colman Ryan, Notre Dame cioind ok ae tone NIGHT in the life of a beautiful lady JHENE’ER you go to see her Mamma. spank.” Is the time when her beauty is made: s ects 3 childlike simplicity When the curlers and cream "1 chane often shown at a dance Make her loveliness gleam é r . en offered punch. Concealed behind curtain and shade. with her t And when you take the chances a ps over the te Oh, a night in the life of a beautiful dame Her voice full of murmurs Brings many a knight to the day of the “There are only ten untaket ‘ “O-o-h, what a fun same! So won't you take the rest?” taste. ‘Oo hasn’t pu hing bad in th a ms 00?” She has ne: been disappointed. °O Fotun ON actr for her the ny types, though. Mode and simplicity: the tw: keynotes of her charac , both on and off the stage. Here she is tak- ing the part of Carmel D in the 1922 opera. The H college press aptly | marked after the pr : duction, “Carmeline and Drawn by Frep Fisuer, Stanford ‘2 Donaldine a syno A wicked line. nyms.” comicbooks.com