Judge, 1926-07-03 · page 27 of 36
Judge — July 3, 1926 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several distinct humor pieces rather than a single cartoon: **Main Advertisement (Center):** A Fatima cigarettes ad showing tobacco packages and an ashtray, using the rhetorical question "Who wouldn't?" to pitch their product as worth paying extra for due to superior "balance" of Turkish and American tobaccos. **Left Column:** Humor snippets including: - "Shakespeare on the Films" — satirizing how Hollywood would rename classic plays with melodramatic titles (e.g., *Hamlet* becomes "His Haunted Highness," *Othello* becomes "Why Kill the Lady?") - Assorted brief jokes about marriage, hearing loss, and a football referee being pelted with bricks during a housing shortage **Bottom Right:** A sketch showing two working-class women in conversation, with a joke about double negatives and schooling ("Two negatives means a infirmary"). The overall tone reflects early 20th-century satirical humor targeting contemporary concerns: cinema's treatment of classics, marriage dynamics, and social absurdities. The content is British and American in origin (credited publications noted).
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Tete it” ie 2B | Sam, come right ot OY | cen. 'Eet's teme O-@Y | pest twelf. | | Who wouldn’ t? FOR THAT perfect “balance” of fine Turkish and American tobaccos, that extfa delicacy of taste and aroma which are Fatima’ s and Fatima’s alone—who wouldn’t pay a few cents more? } Shakespeare on the Films | WEEN Shakespeare's filmed, his plays will get Re-named in “movie” fashion, And Romeo and Juliet Will be The Pangs of Passion! The studios are all controlled With slickness and with slyness, So therefore Hanilet pray behold Transformed —His Haunted High- ness! No “high-grow stuff” for Maude or Or Betty, Trix or Sadie! | Thuswise Othello will, I guess. Be called Why Kill the Lady? —London Opinion Safety First Judge—Why did you run down this | man in broad daylight on a perfectly | straight stretch of road? Prisoner—Your honor, my wind- | shield was almost totally obscured | | with safety first stickers. —Ohio Northern Review Well-deserved Sympathy “Qld friend, I pity you!” “Why?” “I have bought my wife a new dress‘and she has gone to:show it to your wife!” —Klods Hans (Copenhagen) toe All the stock of liquid refreshment was recently stolen from a golf club. In spite of this, many real enthusiasts | went on playing golf as if nothing had happened. | —Passing Show toe Mrs. A-—Does your husband con- fide his business troubles to you? Mrs. B—Yes, indeed! ry time I buy anything! —Answers toe What a whale of a difference just a few cents make Liccett & Myrrs Tosacco Co. | “Tt was strange. I sat playing at the piano when suddenly my di | grandfather gave a cry of horro | “Had he recovered his hearing?” —Flieyende Blaetter (Munich) Rad At Brentford, last week, a football | referee was pelted with bricks, In view of the housing shortage, many | people deplore this light-hearted | extravagance. —London Opinion “T sez, ‘Two negatives means a infirmary,’ and knocks ’er down. —Humorist | L = a) comicbooks.com