Judge, 1927-01-15 · page 10 of 36
Judge — January 15, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine "High Hat" Column Analysis This is a humor column mixing entertainment gossip with cartoon vignettes. The main targets are 1920s Broadway and radio culture: **"Ring the Flask"** satirizes Prohibition-era speakeasies where patrons would ring a flask as an "indoor sport"—mocking both the novelty and lawlessness of drinking during alcohol's legal ban. **The musical theater section** references contemporary shows ("Peggy-Ann," "Betsy") and composers Rodgers & Hart, dismissing them while praising Voltaire's *Candide* and mocking sentimental optimism ("everything's gonna be all right"). **Ray Perkins' letter** concerns radio personality "Judge, Jr." (unclear if real or fictional). Perkins humorously thanks him for improving his reputation on air—a self-deprecating joke about needing radio help. **The cartoons** show: a man lounging titled "The Marksman" (unclear meaning), and a woman with three men holding hats (possibly an illustration of Irene Taylor's story about a drunk party host). Overall, the page mocks Prohibition, Broadway pretension, and radio's growing social influence during the Jazz Age.
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JUDGE IMIG: “Ring the Flask” . . . the latest in- door sport of the nit-wits . .. anyone ringing the flask gets a nip... . Roawdydow! What won't they do next! that I don’t write your stuff. But after all I've done for the darn thing (ingrate) the least you can do is to make me Grand Exalted High Hat of the Radio district!" . . . all right. Fella, you're hereby declared G. EF. —>— H.H.R.D... Two new musical shows and : ft neither of them so hot . . . “Peggy- Ann” and “Betsy”... what’s hap- pened to Rogers and Hart? . . . they have a very Gershwinning way about them lately... “Chuck It,” one of the songs in “Peggy-Ann™ re- minded me so much of “Rhapsody Irene Taylor sends in a funny story Read a great book last week... about a party in which the host tried “Candide” by Voltaire . .. that boy to drink with each of the arriving certainly knew his groceries and how guests... in the course of the eve- he hands it to the “everything's ning he developed an acute case of gonna be all right” boy: . read it alcoholic poisoning and a young a by all means—you'll hear great M.D. student who happened to be in Blue” that IT almost. eri $a thi f this fellow day , id ‘s 8; hings of this fellow some day. there was called upon for help . . . he lo Ziegfeld must ha Abie’s F : Talk Hace teeguan itieg® tee staggered in, hung on the side of the beautiful attempt to- glorify the ——— bed ae aueie tie patient oe American Jewish girl . . . However, Ray Perkins, man about town Se tae ies: wortt : : : ee . “ * very professional manner. ‘‘Nope, it’s worth going to just to hear writes as follows, to wit.... “Dear do a thing for *im—I've onl Borrah Minnevitch and his Har- Judge, Jr.: Teh, teh, teh! You're SM uiag ak tae ac cancer iw tl ica. Orcheati it’s the pe : a studied as far as cancer in- the monica Orchestra... it’s the jealous of my brilliant success as jook! greatest thing that’s hit New York Judge, Jr., on the air, arncha? , this season . . . and Bobbie Perkins ‘Thanks awfully for clearing my good is in the show, too! name and telling the boys and girls a MarBe ) « RICARBONUT- ) Le WASORA comicbooks.com