Judge, 1924-10-11 · page 4 of 36
Judge — October 11, 1924 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains satirical commentary on contemporary social issues circa the 1910s-1920s. The main automobile cartoon depicts "a poor little chorus girl being driven away from home," satirizing the precarious economic situation of chorus girls who often faced pressure to marry wealthy men for financial security. The "I Know a Girl" column mocks an educated woman who uses sophisticated vocabulary (referencing Kant, Villon, Walt Mason) to discuss philosophy and literature, presenting intellectual pretension as affected. The satire targets both her pedantry and the absurdity of expecting meaningful intellectual discourse from someone in her social position. The staircase cartoon shows a chorus girl as a "living statue" in a musical revue, satirizing the objectification and commodification of female performers in entertainment. Overall, the page critiques the vulnerability and limited options available to working women in this era.
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Old Johnny—If I kissed you what would happen? Pretty Chorus Girl—You’d get the box. receipts on your ear! A Short Story She was a pretty chorus girl. She decided for the quiet life and married a wealthy young farmer.” There are now seven in the chorus! Correct This Sentence “Seeing is believing,” muttered the pie-eyed gent in the first row, as a chorus girl with four legs tripped into his line of vision. PID We were going to write a little thyme here about the costumes worn by chorus girls. We discovered that “porous” rhymes with “chorus” but that is as far as we got. A poor little chorus girl being driven away from home. I Know a Girl SHE thinks Schopenhaur is a time of day. Of course she knows it’s a German ex- pression meaning something like the “chil- dren’s hour,” but she says she doesn’t hate the Germans any more. She’s broad-minded, she says, because she thinks that we should do unto others as we would be done by. When I said, “So you believe in the Golden Rule?” she answered that to be cruelly frank she didn’t know an awful lot about geometry. She admitted she was a terrible dunce in that subject but it was only because it was so prosaic (she uses that word on the slightest provocation). She’s very fond of’ philosophy, though. She thinks it’s so inspiring to mental activity and general alertness. Then I mentioned Kant to her and she said that in the bright lexicon of my youth there should be no such word. She likes poetry, too, she says, but only the best. She’s very fond of Edgar A. Guest and thinks it just too remarkable how Walt Mason can make it look the way it does and read like poetry. She thinks Whittier is a comparative adjective. I wrote her that. I had been reading some of Villon’s work.: She wrote back inquiring if it was dirty work. Carroll Hush, little chorus girl, don’t you cry, you'll be a movie star by and by. ‘Fudge will pay $5 for cach one printed Spotting a bill collector coming her way, the girl who plays a living statue in the musical revue, does her stuff. inn iS ~~ seeame (BR liincaeha tan st ttamanai satan comicbooks.com