Judge, 1926-05-08 · page 10 of 36
Judge — May 8, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page combines a **film advertisement** with **satirical fiction**. The **cartoon and ad** promote Harry Langdon's silent film *"Tramp Tramp Tramp"* (First National Pictures). The dialogue mocks working-class Jewish immigrant speech patterns—depicting excited theatergoers with exaggerated Yiddish-inflected English discussing the comedy's slapstick humor ("tsyclons," "lendslips," "merrehtons"—tornadoes, landslips, marathons). This was common 1920s entertainment stereotype humor. The **"Why Jeeves!" article** continues a humorous story about a British nobleman's butler who's unconsciously adopted Yiddish-inflected speech from reading *Saturday Evening Post* stories by Octavus Roy Cohen (a white author famous for comedic "negro stories" and dialect humor). Lord Slotherington is dismayed his proper English butler now sounds like a Jewish immigrant, reflecting period anxieties about cultural assimilation and class boundaries. Both sections reflect 1920s casual ethnic stereotyping presented as sophisticated humor.
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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NUMBER Cokeo NIZE BABY ITT OPP ALL DE SAVAN RILLS FROM “TREMP Treme TREMP? So FROM ITcH Rite ITLL GONNA SE LeFFS WITT ScRIMS Down a Dumbwaiter they’re shouting— | ‘OU should see it by de teeayter diss wik a peecture, Meesus Feitlebaum, wot it’s culled Harry Lengdon in ‘Tremp, Tremp, Tremp.’ “Yi-yi-yi-yi! Is diss fellah comickall! Witt gesp- ing, witt chockling, witt rurring, I tut wot I'll gonna get it a fraction from de reebs!” “So wot wuz de sin from de peecture?” “Hm-m-m-m! Dun’t esk! Wuz dere tsyclons, witt lendslips, witt merrehtons, witt oll kinds stonts! Is a werry rimmockable ecktor, dot HARRY NGDON LANGDON REEL National Pictures OF JUDGE Why Jeeves! (Continued from page 3) lordship, he murmured, “but hi’ve been next to those bloody Octavus Roy Cohen negro stories so many times that hi’ve hunconsciously started to talk that way hoccasionally.”” ‘Butler’s mustn’t lose their English accents,” warned Lord Slotherington “Did my tailor bring my three new suits?” “Dot schlimmiel from a schneider, yer understand, brings it here two oder tree suits from clothes, so I sez, ‘Dope, nu ain’t you. .... a Lord Slotherington sat up in bed, a pained, amazed exp) cratic countenance. “J deplored, ‘what has comeoveryou? Where is your Hyde Park pronunciation? You'll ruin Roadhouse and me in a literary way. How did you ever start talking that way” Tears welled up in Jeeves’s eyes as he ly produced whisky and soda from “Your lordship,” he sob- s but the unfortunate result n’ been next to those Montague | Glass Potash and Perlmutter stories in the Saturday Evening Post so frequently Hi'm a sociable sort of fellow, hi am, and hi can’t ‘elp associatin’ with the bloody Potash and Perlmutter chappies when hi’m right on the next page to ’em. But hi’ll mend me ways, hi will, if your lord- ship will forgive me this time.” Lord Slotherington languidly slipped into his lounging robe and strolled to his | bath, where he dipped an experimental toe | into the filled tub. In an instant his cries | for Jeeves filled the apartrent. The (Continued on page 11) An inimi- table standard of cutsine and service. | LUNCHEON TEA CONFECTIONS Mallard, NEW YORK CHICAGO Madison Avenuc Michigan Boulevard at 47th Strect at Jackson comicbooks.com