Judge, 1926-08-14 · page 29 of 36
Judge — August 14, 1926 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains three distinct elements: **Top cartoon:** Two golfers—"Colonel Bangs" and "General Blazes"—compete on the golf course. The joke plays on their names, suggesting they'll settle the match with colorful language ("adjectives") rather than actual golf skill. This is gentle sports humor about verbose, bombastic personalities. **Middle section:** A film critic reviews steel-industry movies, arguing that dramatic subject matter (molten metal, industrial hazards) needs minimal plot to work. He criticizes "Men of Steel" for cluttering the narrative with melodrama—romance subplots, character coincidences—comparing it absurdly to "decorating a battleship with pink ribbons." He also dismisses "The Two-Gun Man" for focusing on a trained horse instead of human actors like Bill Hart or Tom Mix. **Bottom cartoon:** A traffic officer and chauffeur commiserate about breathing exhaust fumes, leading into an advertisement for Luden's Cough Drops—a period product marketed as relief for irritated throats. The page is primarily **advertising-driven**, with product endorsements for cough drops, seasickness remedy, and radio magazines interspersed with light satirical content.
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= ret Caddie (to companion)—Bet you Colonel Bangs beats General Blazes by an adjective or two on the seventeenth. Judging the Movies (Continued from page 18) opERN industry offers nothing more dramatic than the manu- facture of steel. The vast, frowning mills themselves, viewed from the outside, issue a savage challenge to the imagination. Inside, the witches’ cauldrons of molten metal, the gangs of demons, naked to the waist, toiling in the glare; the titanic forces in evidence, the hideous hazards— these things make epic material for the motion picture. To “get over” to an audience they really need no extraneous plot, any more than “Nanook of the North” or “Gra: But if they must have one, then let's have it unobtrusive and genuine, and not the cheap, ridiculous nonsense in “Men of Steel.” Here's a plot that involves two old men in a spitting Foreman—Wot are you doin’ ’ere? Laborer—Yu: somethin’ awful! but don’t never do it again. —Humorist contest, and a labor leader who has won his boss's daughter, and the promise of a stock melon to the em- ployees when he marries her, and a former sweetheart who turns out to be another daughter of the boss, and Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon, and tears and kisses. It’s like decorating a battleship with pink ribbons. I you are interested in trained horses you'll enjoy seeing Silver King in “The Two-Gun Man.” Personally, I’m not, at least not pri- marily. Silver King is a beautiful and intelligent animal, but I'd rather see a Bill Hart, or even a Tom Mix, any day than a picture in which the dramatic emphasis was allowed to stray from the hero to his horse. Humans, even in burlesque, stir more genuine emotion in my clannish bosom than the cleverest quadruped alive. I gave you the sack on Saturday. My missus carried on —Passing Show TRAFFIC OFFICER: “Yes, 'm sore—and so's my throat. I gotta breathe exhaust fumes all day. I told the chief I'd soon need a gas mask.” CHAUFFEUR: “We chauffeurs get it, too. But my boss told me to slip a Luden's in my mouth several times a day. Here, try a couple. You'll get quick relief.” NOTE: The benefictal and exclusive menthol blend in Luden's Cough Drops brought comfort and quick relief over a billion times last year to sufferers from irritated throats, colds, coughs, hoarseness, hay fever, etc. In the yellow package —Se—everywhere. ROLLEY Sick —faintness, stomach disturbances and dizziness caused by Sea, Train, Auto, Air or Car Travcl. Mother- y end all forms of Travel Sickness. 35 75¢. & $1.50 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill Remedy Co., Ltd. New York Paris “POPULAR RADIO is without question the best radio magazine” You will understand when you see it how very interesting and valuable it is to every owner of a radio receiving set and to every one considering the building or the purchase of a set comicbooks.com