Judge, 1927-01-22 · page 13 of 36
Judge — January 22, 1927 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine "High Hat" Column Analysis This is a humorous advice column for college readers, featuring social commentary on 1920s nightlife and college culture. **The Content:** The column addresses college pranks (like a flirting game involving lipstick at Brown University) and reviews of popular venues—George Olsen's Club and the show "Chicago." **The Key Satire:** The main target is a *World* newspaper article criticizing nightclubs as exploitative. The columnist sardonically lists inflated prices ($6 for "rag dolls"/flowers, $100+ evening tabs, $100 tips) and describes aggressive waitstaff and flower girls pressuring patrons. The final anecdote mocks this dynamic: a young man asks his date if she wants a doll, then whispers an insulting comment—revealing how nightclub culture breeds cynicism beneath surface politeness. **Context:** This reflects post-Prohibition (1920s) anxiety about commercialized nightlife, with venues like Texas Guinan's becoming symbols of excess and exploitation of wealthy "sugar daddies" and naive patrons.
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JUDGE LWIG- As this number is for college boys I will try to speak simply and in words of one syllable. . . . ft Richmond Snyder of Brown (col- lege) writes as follows: “Dear Hi Hat: How’s to give Brown a tumble once in a while? Although we can’t make as much noise as the Yale and Princeton boys do around New York we can still show them a few pointers when it comes to football! New game up here. Take a lip- stick and, with a girl's mouth as the bull’s-eye, draw a circle on her fac Blindfold a gentleman, or a Prince- ton man, put some white powder on his lips, stand the girl in one corner of the room, and then let him see how good a marksman he is! A bull’s-eye counts ten points and any other place in the circle two. It’s a great betting game!” —f— Sister’s been gabbing so much about George Olsen’s Club that I stayed away from the Dover one evening and took it in... nice place . -crowd not so hot the night I w there, but the best music in town. Heard a song called “Worryin’, written by one of the boys, that will probably make a hit. —t— Saw a great show . . . “Chicago” . despite what some of the critics said I think it’s the richest thing that’s hit New York this season... . ah, there, George! Ee LA I always thought the morning World the best newspaper in the United States of America, but aft reading an article on “Night Clubs” in the January $d edition, I changed my opinion . . . probably the bird who wrote it visited Texas Guinan’s, called it an evening, and put all the other places under the same category . . he says that all Night Clubs are full of suckers, 99 per cent. of them sugar daddies, and that th anywhere from $100 to evening.... Hot Diggedy Dog!.... he speaks of $6 for rag dolls, $1 for a pack of Camel's to $100 tips to headwaiters, waiters, cigarette girls, check room boy and that if youdon’t live up to this scale of prices, mean waiters will stand in front of you so you can’t see the show. . . . He further states that if you don’t buy a rag doll the flower girl will insult you! . . . which reminds me of a little scene I wit- nessed the other night in one of se million dollar places . . . fellow and girl at a table (fellow looked like a Princeton man) .... Flower girl approaches—“want a nice doll for the lady?” . . . the fellow (maybe he was a Yale man) looks at the girl friend and in a sugar sweet voice murmurs “want a doll, dear?” and then under his breath mutters in her ear, “stick out your arm and I'll (Continued on page 23) MAN WITH AN ACUTE NCCT AOR Locxtion / comicbooks.com