Judge, 1925-03-21 · page 19 of 36
Judge — March 21, 1925 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes silent film productions and their absurd pretensions. The central circle shows a scene from a movie, while surrounding vignettes mock Hollywood's exaggeration. The satire targets: **Film plots**: References to "The Dark Angel" and other movies suggest Judge is criticizing how cinema adapts literary/biblical material with ridiculous spectacle. The mention of "Cecil B. Holofernes" (likely referencing Cecil B. DeMille) mocks grandiose historical epics that bear little resemblance to their sources. **Sexual innuendo**: The dialogue jokes about "virgin" being considered risqué and flirting ("And you kissed him?") represent criticism of films playing coy with adult content while claiming sophistication. **Shallow materialism**: References to "$800 gold and diamond cigarette cases" mock how films equate luxury goods with glamour and morality. Overall, Judge presents movies as simultaneously prudish and corrupt—dressing up thin plots with expensive props while claiming artistic merit. The tone is dismissive toward both filmmakers' pretensions and audiences who fall for such marketing.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
ee SHOWS — $ y Lagan and Patricia ge in “The Dark Angel” her—V pride myself that thead of my time. Look way I live on next year’s ef Keith's “Give ntence with the words hook and eye. “Hook and eve depend on when Lam blue?” *Ruse-Marie” He—And you kissed him! She—Yes. When T wanted to. seream couldn't. and when DP ecould Pdidwt want to tle which word “virgin” that these movie gents court ball with all the men) wearing and with an S800) gold and dimond riginal—a — oecultly regard as very risqué, and hence Tuxedos to make it a first-rate movie cigarette case, and Rothapfel would Surely good box-office bait. Cecil B. Holofernes. as the French play- to call out the gendarmes to new label ¢ Bernstein’s version of the old biblical wright shows him to us, is vastly less out boobs in line. Se fire as the he opus, — snappy story needs only a scene showing of Assyria than Hollywood. Putthim in’ the show goes, hardly any change is r-aninds a bathroom that looks like the Club whail with a st amin necessary to convert her into an cle- about the Mirador and another scene showing a his lapel, with a shirt open at the ke (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com