Judge, 1925-03-14 · page 14 of 36
Judge — March 14, 1925 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a theater humor page featuring jokes about Broadway shows and performers. The "Rose Marie" and "Tango" jokes mock romantic comedies of the era through absurdist punchlines. The "Electricity" joke about Ted and Al Waldman (Palace Theater performers) makes a pun on the father's name "Moe" sounding like "more." The central article by drama critic George Jean Nathan satirizes a play called "Tanglefoot" (likely a real production) that he assumes will be sentimental melodrama based on its suggestive title. He expresses mock-skeptical anticipation, comparing his reluctance to an Eskimo's enthusiasm for ice cream—a period-typical racial stereotype used for comedic contrast. The final joke features vaudeville stars Fannie Brice and Bobby Clark, punning on "subway" versus period-appropriate language, suggesting Clark's character should speak in costume-consistent dialogue. The cartoons illustrate these theatrical humor bits with Jazz Age style illustrations.
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“Rose Marie” Keith's Tango.” “Give me a sentence with the word “Tango rain no more!” “How did you happen to marry him?” “Why, when he proposed I didn’t have sense enough to come in out of the moon.” Moe.” tos Ted and Al Waldman—Palace “They call her electricity. Her mother's name was Dina | and her father's name Drama du Jour by George Jean Nathan y with the name of ‘angletoes” is hardly the kind to make a reviewer cut his dinner short at the con- sommé in his enthusiasm to get to the theater on time. It is too suspiciously suggestive of the sweet little orphan school of drama. When, therefore, a play with that title was recently nounced for the Thirty-ninth Street Theater, your obedient servant may be forgiven for hav- ing looked forward to the adven- ture with all the hot eagerness of an Eskimo for a dish of ice cream. (Continued on page 28) Fannie Brice and Bobby Clark: in “The Music Bor” Fannie Brice—Was the sub- way crowded? Bobby Clark—Subway? Stick to your period, babe. “What is a pei questionable woman to a comicbooks.com