Judge, 1924-10-25 · page 12 of 36
Judge — October 25, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains theater reviews and entertainment humor typical of 1920s Judge magazine. The main content is "News From" by George, a theater critic reviewing Frederick Lonsdale's play "The Fake," recently seen in London. The reviewer sarcastically denounces it as a "humorously bad play," contrasting travelers' praise with his own negative assessment. He references other Lonsdale works ("Spring Cleaning," "Aren't We All?") to highlight the playwright's inconsistency. The "Laughs" section contains vaudeville-style one-liners tied to theatrical performers: a joke about boxer Jack Dempsey's skin color; commentary on Eskimos at the circus; and a golf joke about Scottish people. The illustrations show theatrical scenes and performers from contemporary plays. The humor relies on topical entertainment references—Dempsey was a famous boxer, and the plays/performers mentioned were recognizable to 1920s readers. The content is essentially entertainment gossip and theater criticism packaged as satire.
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Mary Ann Sawyer and Harry Howard—Proctor's “T hear Dempsey is quite a “What color does he like?” “Anything but a fast black.” | | | Eddie Buzzell and Earl Craddock—No Other Girl” “T saw some Eskimos at the circus.” “Eskimos!” “Yeah, God's frozen people.” NEWS FROM by George a jor the last three or four months, travelers returning from London have been telling me that Frederick Lonsdale’s “The Fake” was a very fine play. Now that I have seen it for mys I take the liberty of confiding to you that they are liars? If “The Fake” is a fine play the Provincetown F house has morris chairs and beth Marbury is a hoochie-coochie dancer. It is, unless I fall into a very coal- hole of error, a humorously bad play and one provocative of periodic low nose-blowings. ‘That the same man who confected “Spring Cleaning” and “Aren't We A should have written it is a source of as much amazement as would be the news that John S. Sumner had eloped with Peggy Joye Although I am not much of a betting man I'll lay a wager of two partly used cakes of Palmolive soap against anyone's last year's derby John Park and John “Why do the Scotch like golf?” comicbooks.com