Judge, 1926-07-31 · page 7 of 36
Judge — July 31, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of "Judge" Page **Top Cartoon ("Judge"):** A satirical commentary on artist models' wages. A woman artist, kneeling and holding a palette, directs acrobatic male models performing dangerous stunts (balancing on wires, contorted poses). The model's complaint—"Mind, I get $1.75 an hour for this!"—mocks the low pay for physically demanding work, suggesting artists exploit models by demanding increasingly difficult poses without proportional compensation. **"Her Swan Song" Story:** This appears to be a theatrical satire about an acrobatic performer named Curvo and his romantic entanglement with Lolita, "The Languorous Equilibrist." The accompanying illustration shows acrobatic performers in a water setting. The narrative satirizes theatrical performers and their romantic complications, though specific contemporary references are unclear without additional context. Both pieces mock the economics and absurdities of performance and artistic work in early 20th-century entertainment.
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JUDGE pamas Wana 4~ ee Mopeit—Mind, I get $1.75 an hour for this! Her Swan Song “Convo. The World’s Greatest Contortionist,” had a new act. An act that would startle the delicate sensibilities of v: the rock-bound ¢ shores of the pes deville lovers from t of Maine to the ul Pacific. His “Double-figure-eight-while- standing - on - a - four - inch - plat- form - eating - a - r a marvel of hideousne glory of his left-leg-tw neck - right - leg - once - around - the- left would leave them speechless. A sublime disregard for the convention- alities of a materialistic world lay hidden in what he called his Writhing Python. It was the snakiest thing ever seen in the two-a-day. Curvo was about to go to his last arsal. 1 ” he said, “a solid forty- weeks booking and will not see you for all that time.” This reniark he addressed to Lolita, The Languorous Equilibrist, of whom he was enamored. The weird zround-the- “In the bathing beauty contest, ch. Oh, boy, wonder what she'll pin the medal on if she wins it?” “Won't you,” he continued ad- dressing the lady of slack wires, “come and see me do my act before we part? made some vague remark about him being liable to part one of these days, and Lolita, The Languorous, together they went arm in arm to the hall where Curvo was wont to prac- tice his gyrations. He did his Inside-out-outside-in- and-around, a little stunt of his own. He followed this with The-merry- frog - playing - leap - frog - merrily with which it was his habit to bring down houses from blonde Minneap- olis, which he preferred, to brunette New Orleans. In fact, Curvo ran the entire gamut of his rotation. Finishing he addressed the apple of his eye and nature’s gift to the slack wire, “Will you,” he wanted to know, “think of me once in a while when I am gone?” To which the faithful Lolita re- plied, in a girlish b: you all way “T'll remember Carroll Carroll comicbooks.com