Judge, 1925-10-24 · page 20 of 36
Judge — October 24, 1925 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a 1920s *Judge* magazine page featuring movie reviews and two cartoon jokes. **The Top Cartoon**: References "Don Q, Son of Zorro" — the caption jokes that the film is essentially a 75-lesson tutorial in whip-cracking, mocking how the plot serves mainly as a vehicle for stunt work by star Douglas Fairbanks. **The Bottom Cartoon**: A domestic humor joke about a couple. "Mare" asks Tom if he has his car lights on; Tom replies he "put my heavies on yesterday" — meaning he placed heavy blankets or quilts on the bed instead. The furnace cartoon below jokes about placing a bedroom above a furnace for heating convenience, satirizing working-class home heating solutions during the era before modern central heating. The movie reviews left mock popular 1920s films with irreverent one-liners about their plots and stars (Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Lon Chaney). The satire assumes readers know these films and stars well enough to appreciate the snark.
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