Judge, 1924-08-23 · page 34 of 36
Judge — August 23, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple humor items typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines: **Top cartoon**: A British child observes a man chasing a departing train, humorously misinterpreting his running alongside as an attempt to "pull the train back"—playing on innocent misunderstanding. **"Opening Night" piece**: Dark comedy about a theater critic mobbed by crowds at a movie premiere, injured so severely he ends up in multiple hospitals. The satire targets both rowdy opening-night crowds and dramatic entertainment industry excess. **Scattered jokes**: - A New Zealand man swallows a shirt button; surgeons can't locate it - A teacher's student defines "myth" as "female moth" - Wordplay about a drunk man biting himself and standing on a chair - A gossip joke: a woman can afford heavy makeup because her father manufactures paint The page also advertises a weather vane forge business. The humor relies on absurdist scenarios, puns, and mild social observation typical of Judge's style—accessible, lighthearted satire without heavy political content.
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Little Girl (seeing late arrival trying to board moving train)—Oh, mummy, there’s a silly man tryin’ to pull the train back! Englishman—Ah suppose there’s weally qu'te a numbah of mah countwymen about heah now? Australian—Yes, but our trouble is the rabbits. —The Bulletin (Sydney) biggest A WEATHER VANE for YOUR GARAGE SPECIALLY DESIGNED BY John ula MADE TO ORDER HAND-FORGED COLONIAL HARDWARE ASK US FOR PRICES GRINDSTONE HILL FORGE WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT. —Passing Show (London) Opening Night (Continued from page 22) Likewise, the crowd made forty-nine rushes through his center for forty-nine goals with the result that he, poor timid critic, never reached his seat in the newly decorated Cosmopolitan Theater and per- chance may never see it again. Instead he was whiskyed away in three ambulances to four hospitals and now lies in five neatly bandaged packages, a vast is bed- praying that he may be of ever again attend- sides fervently spared the necessity ing another motion picture opening night and that a lily-cup, not a lily, may be pushed into his wan mit. Pas A New Zealand man swallowed a shirt button, and four operations by leading surgeons have failed to locate it. It is beginning to look as if he will have to obtain another one. Rnd Teacher—Now, can anyone tell me what a myth is? Small Voice—Please, miss, it’s a female moth. —Answers (London) Fae “Put temptation behind you,” urges a reformer, Americans do—in their hip- pockets, —London Opinion 32 “How did you get that cut on your head?” asked a man of his slightly inebriated friend. “Must ha’ bit myself,” was the reply. “How could you bite yourself up there?” “Must ha’ stood on a chair.” —Tit-Bits (London) First Gosstp—Her father is one of the biggest paint manufacturers in this country. Seconp Gosstp—Now I know why she can afford to put it on an inch thick. comicbooks.co