Judge, 1925-04-25 · page 35 of 36
Judge — April 25, 1925 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a biographical profile page featuring **Carroll Carroll**, a humorist and writer. The entry plays on the surprise that someone with this feminine-sounding name is male—a joke playing on gender expectations in 1920s-30s publishing. The satire highlights Carroll's unconventional path: a native New Yorker educated in Chicago who immediately returned to New York to write humorous copy. The piece humorously describes his typewriter skills as self-taught ("plays the typewriter entirely by ear, and never took a lesson in his life"), suggesting he's a natural talent who needed no formal training. This is a lighthearted "society column" style feature common in *Judge*, celebrating a magazine contributor through biographical wit rather than hard satire or political commentary.
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WHO’S WHO IN JUDGE prise to you, readers, for we'll bet you thought | all along that Carroll Carroll was a girl! Car- roll is a native-born New Yorker, but for some in- | explicable reason was educated in Chicago. How- | ever, this only goes to prove that knowledge is a | wonderful thing for, as soon as he became edu- cated, he moved right back to New York and began writing humorous copy. He plays the typewriter | CARROLL CARROLL | HE above photograph is probably a great sur- entirely by ear, and never took a lesson in his life. comicbooks.com