Judge, 1926-06-19 · page 9 of 36
Judge — June 19, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page mixes entertainment coverage with period advertising. The left column reviews a film called "Pink Tights" starring Sophie Sophah and Dick Reedock, directed by Allbullina Yardwide—these appear to be fabricated or satirical names typical of Judge's humor. The review uses 1920s slang ("the cat's meow," "superb/superber") to mock overwrought film criticism. The main cartoon advertises "Tootho" toothpaste with the caption "You Just Know She Wears Them"—a suggestive double entendre implying the product enhances attractiveness to men. The testimonial "How I Got Pretty Teeth" humorously admits the product doesn't work; the narrator tried everything before simply buying dentures. This satirizes deceptive advertising claims common in the era, where products promised miraculous results they couldn't deliver. The joke mocks both the product and consumers' gullibility.
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Watch This. Column If you want to be on our mailing list send in your name and address SOPHIE SOPHAH IN “PINK TIGHTS” SOPHIE SOPHAH has her big chance in ‘‘Pink Tights.” Her form is excellent, she never | hits in the clinches, and her emotional climax in the last chukker is the cat’s meow. And her leading man in “Pink Tights’—DICK REEDOCK—is a wonderful lover. In the sawmill scene in ‘Pink Tights” he is superb, | and when SOPHIE SOPHAH falls into the whirlpool he is superber. ALLBULLINA YARDWIDE directed “Pink Tights.” Don’t Fail to Miss It! (carl “emme 4% President Autographed pictures of President Coolidge, General Grant and Napo- leon can be had for 10 cents. UNIVERSLE | PICTURES JUDGE ‘ssYou Just Know. She Wears ‘Them’! | ‘VE tried everything from Mobileoil to Val- spar on my teeth but they continued to fallout. Finally I grew so dis- couraged I tried Tootho andwith amazing results. After using it faithfully for a week I went into a Dental Parlor and How I Got Pretty Teeth By Millie Molar bought a nice new set ‘c oy ot's —_——n id of false teeth. That's Trial “Tube FE CRE E How , r | low I Got My Pretty | TOOTHO | Teeth. comicbooks.com