Judge, 1925-07-25 · page 13 of 36
Judge — July 25, 1925 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains three separate humor pieces mocking popular culture ignorance and female stereotypes: **"I Know a Girl"** (main text): A satirical column describing a woman who frequents movies but doesn't understand cinema. She confuses actors' names (Wallace Beery, Tom Mix, Virginia Valli, Charlie Chaplin) with unrelated concepts—Tom Mix as a cocktail, Virginia Valli as a Colorado location. The humor relies on the premise that she's culturally ignorant yet stubbornly devoted to moviegoing. References to 1920s Hollywood stars and Prohibition-era drinking are implicit. **Top cartoon**: Shows a street fight scene with onlookers, captioned "Gee, Billy, lookit th' gang fight!"—slapstick humor about urban violence as entertainment. **Right cartoons**: Two brief jokes about eyesight/drinking and a movie star using glycerine for tears, plus an illustration showing what "the average girl thinks she can bring" on a canoe trip—depicted as excessive luggage, mocking female impracticality. The overall tone reflects 1920s condescension toward women's engagement with popular entertainment.
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I Know a Girl S= thinks the silver screen’s a part of the equipment of a rich boot- legger’s country estate, that cinema is a flavoring and that drama is her father’s mother, but she couldn’t miss a night at the movies. I wouldn’t let her. I asked her if she’d ever seen Wallace Beery. She replied that she only knew one boy by the name of Wallace and he couldn’t be the one I was referring to because her Wallace was a clergyman’s son and never drank a drop. She thinks Tom Mix is a cocktail, that Virginia Valli is in Colorado and that Charlie Chaplin was just con- victed of murder in Connecticut. When I said I didn’t care for Fox pictures she said neither did she that she couldn’t understand why they made them, but that she did think it was interesting how they tamed the foxes and taught them to do the wonderful tricks they do. Well, I know when I’m beaten, so I beat it. Carroll “Gee, Billy, lookit th’ gang fight!” When your eyesight commences to blur you should use stronger glasses but weaker drinks. What the average girl thinks she can bring with her when you invite her on a canoe trip. “T must bottle up my grief,” said the movie star as she corked the glycerine bottle. Al Mert _ i Xmas Age comicbooks.com/ J