Judge, 1925-06-20 · page 5 of 36
Judge — June 20, 1925 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine This page features two distinct pieces of content: **Top Cartoon**: "A Howling Success" depicts a movie actor on a dock saying "I must rescue that girl! Where's my double?" The satire mocks silent film conventions—actors relying on stunt doubles for dramatic rescue scenes, undermining the authenticity audiences expect from heroic performances. **"Funnybones" Section**: A humorous piece about using a cat as a makeshift telephone receiver, describing comic mishaps when dialing (getting cat fur, ears, and tail caught). The joke plays on early radio/telephone technology's novelty and domestic absurdity. **Bottom Item**: A brief quip about dentists being able to draw teeth. The content reflects early 20th-century satire targeting emerging entertainment media (silent films, radio) and household technologies.
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Movit A Howling Success I NEVER did like radio. When it was introduced into our domestic life and our national consciousness I was one of those who said it would never be a success and certainly not be popular. That was my story and I'm sticking to it. However, many of my friends are radio fan-aties and, as I figure that you never can tell when a friend may be your most touching need, T try to humor them when they call. To this end I've rigged up a little radio of my own. I, think it’s the cats. The only station Tcan't get is K9. It’s a simple contrivance, just an looking with dials, personally, interesting vinet vighty- faucets and whirligigs. batteries, aerial or super conglom- orata amplicondenser crate it. One of my fiends (I mean friends) {ell-ooo!" he cries, ing at the sight of the »oking apparatus, “What ts, spigots, It needs no attractive kind is it? “Super Caterodyne,” I nonchalantly. or thereabouts. answer ACTOR T must resene that girl! Where’ \Funnybones / Shapely limbs he to branch —S™ Ciadge wil pay 85 fer cach ore print “Get distance?” he immediately “Had the Catalina Islands last night,” Tsay. “But it doesn't work now. Maybe you can get something out of it!” He tries. He turns the first dial and pulls the whiskers of the cat Result He tries three or four more who resides within, terrible static dials, successfully pulling the cat's tail ~ meanwhile rubbing her fur the wrong way and poking pins Result more terrible static. Finally, on t on the phon into her. lots more—even : last dial, he turns dh hidden in the box lot of gibberish. and look numbers which emits rush to the dial agerly at the “You've picked up Toky After that a little loan of a few Carroll man! grand is a cinch My dentist may not be an artist but he certainly can draw teeth comicbooks.com