Judge — October 24, 1925 — page 30: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The absent-minded barber, Modern Photography J OTHING, perhaps, has changed more in the past thirty years than the art of the photographer. In the old days, one entered an un-4 assuming room, leaned one’s head against an iron rest, and draped the: left hand over an Ionic column— and that was that. The result caused many a happy smile, and cost $2 a dozen. Not so to-day! One enters a large and beautifully decorated studio, furnished with genuine an- tiques from Grand Rapids. The photographer is an artist and a Humorous Sketches by John Held, Jr., modern one. He spends the whole Wynn, Burbank, Machamer, Stout morning over your face. “I want and Patterson to bring out the bitterness in your soul,” your modern photographer says in an intense voice. “Yours has been an unhappy life, and you have been bitterly misunderstood by your relatives.” (You are so pleased with this dig at your family that you smile all over yourself. At which he raises his hand in protest.) “Pray do not smile!” he begs. “It is your soul I am after!” As you go out and hear the bad news from the secretary you are in- clined to think that itis yourlife’ssav- ings he is after. The proofs arrive and you eagerly examine them. They look a bit hazy—as though you had been wearing a wet cloud in front of eatied eats UNIOR ‘n enveline ea owing tothe thousands J your face, but perhaps this is an of contributions sent into this office A advantage. Of course, if you look each week, it is impossible to enter (Himself) like Valentino, it may ngt be so good, into personal correspondence regard- but personally I am all for the hazy Donot enclose postage for FUNNY- Will take the air effect. Thomas Edgelow BONES or EPILAUGHIS as they will each Wednesday not be returned. 7 In cases of duplication, the first at P.M. one received will be accepted. ei’ UGE Y iS) For prompt attention address W J Z manuscripts, in separate envelopes, 4 Do you read SNAPPY STORIES— the magazine of the new generation? Gay Modern Fiction Broadway First Nights The Movies Bits of Joie de Vivre from Our Foreign Contemporaries Burlesques by Samuel Hoffenstein Snappy Storres—on sale at all newsstands—20 cents q Twenty-six delightful features in the current issue of Notice to Judge Contributors ‘O MANUSCRIPTS will be re- turned unless accompanied by to the following departments: Manuscripts—Literary Editor of Jupcr, Funnybones—Funnybone Editor of Jupce, Epilaughs—Epilaugh Editor of Jupcr, Crossword Puzzles—Crossword Puzzle Edi- tor of JUDGE, ie Label Editor of 627 West 43d Street, New York City Listen in and hear the latest thing in “High Hat” song and story. Here lie the bones of Lemmy Ten Jones, He lemmied me to the limit, Till I found him worth fire, dead, ‘not alive, ; I shot him for all there was in il. nab irae belt btm tany, nel rage pays $5 fOr each one print HAL cf comicbooks.com