Judge, 1924-09-20 · page 8 of 37
Judge — September 20, 1924 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This Judge magazine page contains multiple satirical items typical of early 20th-century American humor: **Top cartoon**: A woman asks a golf shop clerk for clubs for "a slender gentleman with a small blond mustache" suitable for a nine-hole course. This appears to be a veiled reference to Adolf Hitler, identifiable by the specific physical description (small blond mustache was his distinctive feature). The nine-hole course may suggest something diminished or inferior, though the exact satirical point is somewhat unclear without more context. **Lower sections**: Brief humorous quips on various topics—modernism rejecting religious concepts ("done away with hell"), Hollywood's rapid construction/development, and gender relations ("woman is complementary to man, but not always complimentary"). The page mixes political satire with general humor typical of Judge's approach: combining topical references with everyday observational comedy for American readers of that era.
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Lapy—I want some golf clubs suitable for a slender gentleman with a small blond mustache and they're to be proper for a nine-hole course. A fly on an elephant looks pretty insignificant, doesn’t it? But, at least, you can see it. But suppose the elephant was on the fly! soe The Limit He—I will love you forever! She—Midnight’s as late as I can sit up! Rad Now that the Modernists have done away with hell what in—the dickens are the common people going to raise, anyway? sss The man who said that Rome was not built in a day was never at Hollywood. Woman is complementary to man; Int not always complimentary, comicbooks.com