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# Judge's Rotogravure Section - Analysis This page contains three main cartoons by Ralph Barton satirizing 1924 American political and cultural events: 1. **"Babe Ruth Opens the Political Season"**: A caricature shows a figure juggling state names (Ohio, Kansas, Maine), satirizing Republican Party executives' campaign strategy of using baseball celebrity Babe Ruth to promote their candidate at the Republican Convention in Cleveland. 2. **"Tableau Posed by London Girls"**: British women demonstrate wartime sacrifice through theatrical performance, positioning themselves as morally superior regarding Allied war debt repayment. 3. **"Aftermath of the Actors' Strike"**: John Emerson's Equity Association confrontation is depicted with physical comedy, showing theatrical conflict during labor disputes. The bottom section shows the U.S. round-the-world flight achievement, celebrating American technological advancement.
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Judge's Rotogravure Section THE NEWS OF THE GLOBE IN PICTURES—BY RALPH BARTON BABE RUTH OPEN, ICAL ‘The Bambino returns the compliment paid to baseball by the nation’s executives by throwing out the first candidate at the opening of the Republican Classic in Cleve- land. PC BY LONDON GIRLS “Miss France’’ (Mile. Gaby _Pif- pat) and “Miss Britain’? (Miss Ve Oldthing) shaming ‘*Miss Columbia” — (Miss Mae Neck) for be- ing so rich and not wanting to cancel the Allied Debt. FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE U. S. ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIERS to reach this country. ‘Thrilling view of the airmen circling above the U. 8. S. John D. Ford. lying off Kushiro, Japan, and receiving “Banzais” fram the townsfolk. 4 WITH 7 PHE RUM FLEET OFF BOSTON Capt. Algernon Pep- per, fifth — vice: presi- AN ACRO- dent of the Andrew BATIC BABY J. Volstead Chapter he National Boot- Assn., Ine, larger safe on 6 board to accommodate the swelled receipts weeks’-old- expected when the son,Nebuchadnezzar, Soldier bonus is dis- dr., who promises to tributed. be a real athtete, APTERMATH OF THE ACTORS STRIKE John Emerson, president of the Actors’ equity ociation, inaugurates the curtain in the Equity Theater showing L Shubert triumphing over A (Photograph direct to JUDGE over t/ Chickering 1908.) = W I" 1s pr to tal labor: for a searel why the p As law incor platf plank worl too parti all tl vl for p cal y eal y but bricl If repr off y mitt comicbooks.com