Judge, 1925-05-09 · page 22 of 36
Judge — May 9, 1925 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page contains theatrical gossip and two unrelated cartoons satirizing early 20th-century New York culture. **"The Drama in Jerusalem"** section mocks Broadway's obsession with adaptations by imagining Biblical figures cast in contemporary plays—Job in "When a Man's a Wreck," Elijah in "Hell-bent for Heaven," Noah assembling a cast for "Rain." The humor lies in treating scripture irreverently and suggesting theatrical producers will dramatize anything. **The main cartoon** shows a New York Public Library building scaled to match average citizen culture—depicted as tiny, crude, and surrounded by debris. It's satire on anti-intellectualism and the gap between public institutions and actual public literacy/sophistication. **The bottom cartoon** presents a "First New Yorker" asking dismissively whether an earthquake and tidal wave will "postpone the ball game?"—mocking New Yorkers' indifference to catastrophe when sports are involved, a common theme in Judge's urban satire. The poem about primitive humans establishing domestic hierarchy through violence appears filler content.
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