Judge, 1927-02-12 · page 16 of 36
Judge — February 12, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This is a multi-panel satirical comic mocking a young woman's gullible enthusiasm for high-culture pretension. "Nancy" becomes obsessed with seeing a critically acclaimed Russian play ("Dirty Work" by Ivan Offulitch), treating it as the cultural event of the season. The satire targets several things: the snobbish worship of European avant-garde theater among aspiring sophisticates; the ticket-broker's opportunistic price-gouging ("for a consideration"); and Nancy's breathless, irrational excitement despite having no actual knowledge of the play's merit. The final panel—showing her at a crowded public swimming pool instead—suggests the "big event" she anticipated was a humiliating anticlimax or that she was duped entirely. The comic ridicules both pretentious cultural consumption and the naive, status-seeking behavior it inspires in impressionable people.
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