Judge, 1924-09-20 · page 13 of 37
Judge — September 20, 1924 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Judge's Rotogravure Section Analysis This page from Judge magazine contains satirical commentary on 1920s American society: **"Aristocracy Condescends to Democracy"** mocks the Prince of Wales's recent visit to America by depicting him conversing with "Abner Jones, the American Fried Potato King"—a caricature contrasting Old World nobility with New World commercial vulgarity. **"Judge's Great Scoop"** is faux-exclusive photographs of the Prince shaving and brushing teeth, satirizing tabloid culture's obsession with royal minutiae. **"Riches Do Not Bring Happiness"** references Colonel E. H. R. Green (son of the famous miser Hetty Green), suggesting even inherited wealth cannot exempt the wealthy from ordinary life's indignities. **"Airplane View of Polling Place"** jokes about accommodating voters across three northeastern states for an upcoming election. **"New Scale of Bribes"** depicts a posted rate card for bribing European tourists—satirizing corruption and the commercialization of immigration. The cartoons collectively mock wealth, politics, and American materialism of the era.
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Judge's Rotogravure Section ARISTOCRACY COND DEMOCRACY The Prince of Wales, during his recent visit, conversing with Abner Jones, the American Fried Potato King. LE AIRPLANE VIEW OF POLLING PLAC erected to accommodate the voters of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who are expected, by all three parties, to remember to vote next month. THE NEWS OF THE GLOBE IN PICTURES—BY RALPH BARTON JUDGE'S GREAT SCOOP Two absolutely exclusive photographs of His Royal Highness in the very acts of (left) shaving the royal coun’ nee, and (rig: brushing the imperial teeth. Unquestionably closer-ups than of the snapshots obtained by the daily press. [e) | TRUNKFUL -$25 RICHES DO NOT BRING HAPPINESS Although Col. E. H. R. son of the late Hetty may ay his ies hundred million, he, as the humblest of’ the rest of us, NEW SCALE OF BRIBES, faust occasionally listen to the to take care of the influx of tadio. European tourists, recently posted in the transatlantic piers in New York City.