Judge, 1923-09-01 · page 14 of 36
Judge — September 1, 1923 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is a satirical cartoon about the Broadway play "In Love With Love" by Vincent Lawrence. The upper panel shows a love-triangle farce: two men (C and D) pursue a woman (B), who ignores them to pursue an innocent bystander (A) — depicting the circular, frustrating nature of romantic entanglement that the play's title ironically emphasizes. The lower panel advertises Miss Patricia Salmon, presented as a novelty act in the Ziegfeld "Follies" — notably described as "animated copy" discovered by sportswriters in Montana, suggesting she was promoted more as a curiosity or gimmick than as a serious performer. Barton's satire mocks both theatrical absurdity and the era's tendency to package women as exotic commodities for entertainment.
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THE CURSE OF TRUE LOVE—By RALPH BARTON C and D (Messrs. Robert Strange and Henry Hull) energetically woo and lose B (Miss Lynn Fontanne), who, in turn, woos and wins A (Mr. Ralph Morgan), an innocent bystander; in Vincent Lawrence’s “In Love With Love.” Miss Patricia Salmon, the bit of ani- mated “copy” brought to the Ziegfeld “Follies” by the sporting writers who found her in Shelby, Montana. comicbooks.com