Judge, 1925-03-07 · page 4 of 36
Judge — March 7, 1925 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two distinct pieces: **"I Know a Girl"** (top): A gossipy column about a woman who holds opinions on various celebrities and cultural figures of the era—including Anatole France, Zane Grey, Sherwood Anderson, and boxer Ring Lardner. The satire targets how ordinary people casually discuss famous figures they've never met, often with superficial or contradictory knowledge. **"It Happens in Every Family"** (bottom): A humorous poem about family members' conflicting desires (Tampa station, Montreal, Parsifal opera, Havana, The Ritz) culminating in the narrator buying tools to "smash our set to bits"—satirizing how radio ownership creates household discord through competing entertainment preferences. The *Krazy Kracks* ad is unrelated product advertising.
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oe The day dream. It Happens in Every Family OTHER wants a station down in M Tampa, Alfred wants to pick up Montreal, Pearl would like to hear them playing Zampa, Tosca or the strains of Parsifal— While father’s somber attitude Inclines to prosy platitude. Sister wants Havana's haunting glamour, Percy supper music from The Ritz, So I've just bought a chisel and a hammer— To-night I'm gonna smash our set to bits! Cyrano KRAZY RACKS ES” fire me a eectence with the word ode Disguise “Disguise been after me all day!” I Know a Girl— HE thinks Anatole France is the town her brother was billeted in when he was with the A. ie that Rex Beach is one of those tall trees with a road tunneled through it, that people who go West send you picture post cards of, and that Walt Whitman is the conductor of Ameri- ca’s most famous jazz orchestra, but) she’s an omnivorous reader. She told me so herself. I asked her, one day, what she thought of Zane Grey and she said it. was very lovely but that her favorite color was Alice-blue. She hadn't heard of Sherwood Anderson. How grown-ups can still get any pleasure out of fairy tales she say's she can’t understand. She thinks Zona Gale is a kind of Kansas cyclone, and Fannie Hurst is editor of the Hearst newspapers. It is her belief that Irvin Cobb is a ball player, for years with the Detroit club and that Ring Lardner is a prize fighter and that Ring is not his real name. She says she thinks he just took that name as a sort of plume de guerre, When I wanted to know her opinions of Don Herold, Don Mar- quis, Don Stewart and Donn Byrne, she replied that she had all she i do to keep up with the American writers without bothering about the Spanish ones. Carroll IT’S NOT QUITE READY FOR DISTRIBUTION— But we're working on the idea. et comicbooks.com