Judge, 1925-05-02 · page 21 of 36
Judge — May 2, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This is a Judge magazine page mixing film reviews with visual humor puzzles. **Top section:** A theater critic reviews recent films, complaining about a loud female moviegoer. He discusses several movies: one about a "rich young reprobate," *The Court of the West* (featuring a famous horse scene), and *I Want My Man* (starring Milton Sills as a blinded war hero who marries his nurse, then fears her beauty will make her leave). **Bottom section:** "What's wrong with this picture?" and "Things we'd like to see"—absurdist visual gags asking readers to spot logical impossibilities or imagine surreal scenarios: a crocodile sleeping in a feather bed in the Sahara, a fat man rolling a Boston baked bean across the Grand Canyon on a wire cable, a sword-swallower consuming all cutlery store knives, etc. The humor relies on readers' familiarity with 1920s film titles and their tolerance for gentle absurdism—amusement derived from impossible premises rather than sophisticated satire.
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