Judge, 1924-12-20 · page 33 of 36
Judge — December 20, 1924 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** rather than satire or editorial commentary. The main content includes: 1. **Film reviews** (left column): Critical commentary on recent movies featuring actors like Benny Leonard and Gloria Swanson, discussing plot weaknesses and performances in contemporary silent films. 2. **General Electric advertisement** (center/right): Showcases the contrast between GE's largest lamp (30,000 watts) and smallest ("grain of wheat" lamp for surgery), emphasizing technological innovation and affordability post-WWI. 3. **Miscellaneous ads**: Radio program announcements, a crossword puzzle answer, and cigarette/patent advertisements typical of 1920s magazines. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. The image of a woman with a lamp relates only to the GE advertisement's "Aladdin's lamp" comparison—a common commercial metaphor about wishing and modern convenience.
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is no plot. And what is really original in the picture is this: there isn’t any villain in it and They just go. that as you must know is never, never au fait ina Western. It isn’t And the love in- terest rates about one and a half per cent. ndown™ is about as ex- citing game of chess played be- tween an expert and a wax figure. Tt's the most footless footage I've seen. even savoir faire. It's finished in one move. wet Benny Leonard in a one- round bout the other day and lost the bout. This is the first “Flying Fists” picture I've seen and | I enjoyed the straight from the shoulder antics of the actor-fighter. The picture has all the eauliflower- sar-marks of a prize fight. Benny fter his andience just as he rhisman inthe ring. Ifyou + fight comedies, you'll like Benny. He's sincere and human and puts up vattle as any leading man inpictures. In the story Benny wins | a $200 purse to put his lil” lame | brother through college. What could be fairer than that? Grr Swanson has enough per- sonali to make the best scenario look — self-conscious. She om has to exert herself with uges of Virtue.” The picture s shoddy comie opera. Costumes and artificial plot are interwoven and it is all quite obviously trapped out to fit the star | of a regiment quartered somewhere in Arabia Gloria is the darling I've forgotten my Arabia, and didn’t recall. the exact. spot. Three men in the messed up over Gloria but the way she rolls her eyes you are rather | surprised there isn’t a civil war in | the barracks. tae Answer to Judge's Radio | Crossword Puzs broadcast from station WGBS on De- eember 17. regiment get all. | Aladdin would have liked to meet this young lady. He had a good lamp; but see this! The biggest and the smallest The biggest lamp made by the General Electric Com- pany is 30,000 watts, equiv- alent to100,000 candles. The smallest is called the “grain of wheat” lamp. It is used in surgical operations on the stomach. While the cost of al- most everything else has advanced since the war, the cost of MAZDA Lamps— and the current for light- ing them—has been materially reduced. Use the right lamps and use them freely; no other home com- fort costs so little. Both are Mazpa Lamps, like the lamps in your home— Mazpa being the mark of thecontinuous research ser- vice centered in the General Electric laboratories in Schenectady. GENERAL ELECTRIC ARE YOU LISTENING IN? ON JUDGE’S RADIO PROGRAMS FROM Station WGBS (New York City) 16 Meters FOR OF BRAINS 66; Gg ais -MADE AT prtes( wesTt.— or our tree Books and fi ENTION tions. Send r sketch of 9 e FILM FUN A monthly maj with pictures of your fa- vorite movie On all newsstands the econd of each month comicbooks.com