Judge, 1925-07-25 · page 23 of 36
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This page contains film reviews and satirical cartoons from an American humor magazine. **Top Cartoon**: Shows a Russian train station worker reading a massive list of unpronounceable Russian names and places. The satire targets post-Revolutionary Russia—the joke is that a train announcer in Russia would face an impossible job due to the difficulty of Russian nomenclature, playing on American stereotypes about Russian language complexity and the chaos of Soviet administration. **Bottom Cartoon**: An Irish dialect joke about a soldier avoiding battle. The humor relies on ethnic stereotyping—the "General" tells "Pat" to stay home because he's already killed enough men yesterday. This reflects WWI-era humor that often mocked Irish soldiers through dialect comedy. **Film Reviews Section**: Carroll Carroll critiques contemporary Hollywood films (Don Q, Beggar on Horseback, etc.), offering brief, flippant assessments. The "Cold Cuts, Dessert and Cheese" section reviews an Eskimo-themed film called "Kivalina of the Icelands," dismissing it sardonically as an "Eskimo pie." The page exemplifies early 1920s American satirical humor, mixing entertainment industry commentary with period-typical ethnic and national stereotypes.
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The Reel Stuf By Carroll Carroll A Few Wraiths of Hollywood Don Q, Son of Zorro—You'll love it. Beggar on Horseback—Good and funny. Smooth as Satin—And valu- able as cheesecloth. After Business Hours—The only chance of your life to see Lou Tellegen with a collar on. The Making of O° Malley— Childish as cops and robbers. Beauty and the Bad Man— Out there where the men begin and West is West. The Light of Western Stars— Namely: Jack Holt, Noah Beery and Billy Dove. Lost — A Wife — Menjou, good as usual, in an amusing comedy. How Baxter Butted In— Rather nutty ‘and mildly nice. Siege—Worth a couple of hours of anyone’s time. Cold Cuts, Dessert and Cheese FreR considerable pub- licity, articles in our more sophisticated monthly magazines, a good deal of speculation on tie part of those who go in for that sort of thing and two years of un- interrupted activity in Amund- sen’s backyard, ‘“Kivalina of the Icelands” has been released. It looks like an Eskimo pie to me. All the scenes are laid up in Santa Claus land, but none of them show that estimable gentleman, for, as the film failed to point out, he was down in “the States” doing his Christmas shopping early. And there’s a man to whom Christ- mas shopping means more than a couple of pairs of silk stock- ings, a visit to Schwartz’s and a half a dozen boxes of cigars. “Kivalina” has a plot. Wait till you hear it! Nashulik won’t (Continued on page 28) _} ODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDNDDDDDDDDDDDDDNDD00000000000000000000 JOBS WE WOULDN’T CARE TO. HAVE Train Announcer in Russia. fees AN yrs thw . DN Asoo STOP US IF YOU’VE HEARD IT “Ain’t you goin’ to the battle to-day, Pat?” “No . . . the Ginral says to me, ‘Let you stay at home to-day . . . you & kilt enough men yesterday.” 4 21 comicbooks.com