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This page mixes advertising with theatrical criticism and humor. The main content includes: **Advertisement Section:** Book promotion for Maurice Switzer's "Satire & Song" (verse about domestic life), plus ads for a tenor banjo course, fake diamonds ("Radex"), and coin collecting—typical early 20th-century magazine fare. **Political/Social Cartoon:** The top illustration shows a prison doctor advising a woman to "get away to the south of France"—satirizing how the wealthy escape consequences through travel while ordinary citizens face imprisonment. The "Regulations" poster suggests this is commentary on justice system inequality. **Theater Reviews:** The bulk discusses mystery plays, particularly criticism of formulaic staging using clichéd elements (sliding panels, mysterious servants, jewel theft plots). The Italian citizenship exam joke references 1920s immigration testing and ethnic stereotyping of Italian immigrants' work habits. **Humor snippets** address marriage, infidelity, and class differences—typical Judge fare mocking domestic life and pretension. The page reflects 1920s concerns: wealth disparities, theatrical conventions, and immigration debates.

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SATIRE & SONG BY MAURICE SWITZER A small volume of clever, humorous and snappy verse, by a business man with a keen but rare sense of humor who has put into words, which you will be glad to quote, some of his observations of life “She doesn’t know how to cook, And she doesn’t know how to mend, But I can work like a bar- barous Turk, So she'll have money to spend.” We have a few copies of a privately printed edition with unique illustra- tion in color, and an attractive Art Binding. Size 614 x 8 inches, sent postpaid, upon receipt of One Dollar BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. 627 W. 43d Street New York This Tenor Banjo Sin @ REE Just to Introduce RADEX DIAMONDS most radiant, perfect substitute f¢ iamonds, Revex GEMS are worn by fas inousble each ~ ty with out fear of detection, ‘We will send you choice of solitaii scala densi ot vai de, our regular $3.00 value. Send .00,, poae: tens, address and string $1.00 Is All You Pay Money refunded if not entirely satisfied. RADEX SPECIALTY COMPANY Dept.R-3 Providence, R. I. OldMoneyWantedi tia Jectors pay up to $100.00 for certain U. 8 And re We bay all kinds. Send May mean much h pratt to ‘ot NUMISMATIC CO., Dept. 469, Worth, Tex. RECUHUATIONS| wanes RSET Newly appointed prison doctor—(absent-mindedly)—What you need is a complete change. France? Judging the Shows (Continued from page 17) committed by the wife of the hero, but, since that wouldn't make a mystery play but a domestic drama, Mrs. Wilkes works herself up into a terrible sweat proving unconvincingly that the wife is innocent and that the dirty work was done by a character who appears for a moment early in the show and who I am ready to go on the stand and swear was in a beer saloon in the next town when the murder was done. In contriving her parlor trick, Mrs. Wilkes has resorted to most of the stencils of the mystery play. The hand that steals around the portiére and douses the glim, the precious Oriental jewel, the detective who roars around the house and com- mands everyone periodically to sit down, the comic servant, the foot- prints on the lawn, the sudden scream of terror, the sliding panel, the comic assistant detective, the mysterious Oriental servant—they are all here again. However, there are audi- ences who never get tired of acquiring gooseflesh at entertainments of this sort, and I suppose that they will be made as uncomfortably happy by “The Creaking Chair,” as by any number of its predecessors. Regi- nald Mason, Lenore Harris, E. E. Clive and Eleanor Griffith are the best of the presenting troupe. IV “Mas Loves Papa,” a farce on tap at the Forrest, unfor- tunately doesn’t provide me with Why not try and get away to the south of —Humorist material to end up to-day’s lecture with a welcome burst of eulogy. Aside from several minutes of fair clowning, it has little to recommend it to students of jocosity. Pas An Italian, having applied for American citizenship, was being examined in the naturalization court. “Who is President of the United States?” “Mr. Coolidge.” “Who is Vice-President?” “Mr. Daw.” “Could you be President?” “No.” “Why?” “Mister, you ‘scuse me, please; I vera busy worka da mine.” —Tit-Bits sas Old Lady (to weary tramp)—Poor fellow, you're an ex-airman and got hurt going up in a flying machine? Tramp (soulfully)—I’m a truthful man, mum—I got hurt coming down. —Answers tae “My dear, the doctor says a brisk walk before going to bed will cure my insomnia. “Well,” returned his wife, “I'll clear the room so that you can walk, and you s well take the baby with yo —Western Christian Advocate Soe Lady (staying in the count: this milk from contented cov Farmer—Well, now, lady, to be honest, one of them did seem to be a little bit annoyed by the flies. —Answers mie ‘ai hu | comicbooks.com