Judge, 1927-03-19 · page 5 of 36
Judge — March 19, 1927 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate humor pieces rather than connected political cartoons. **"Do You Know?"** - Marion F. Bruess humorously catalogs domestic blame-shifting, culminating in the joke that the one thing he can't determine is "who's to blame in an automobile smash-up." **"Real Strong Stuff"** - A brief joke about liquor that "ate holes through everything." **"Making a Start"** - William Sanford satirizes Hollywood gossip tactics: a man plans to ask a movie starlet if she's engaged, she'll deny it, he'll publish the denial, then she'll admit it's true—creating a cycle of engagement rumors. This mocks how entertainment reporters and actresses manipulate publicity through strategic denials. The page reflects early 20th-century preoccupations with automobiles, Prohibition-era liquor, and emerging Hollywood celebrity culture.
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aici St each JUDGE Do You Know? KNow absolutely what is to blame for my headache on the morning after. I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that when a quarrel with my wife has gone so far as to re- duce her to tears, I am to blame, and a big brute in the bargain. I know unquestionably who is to blame for the streak of deviltry possessed by my young son, for it has been impressed upon me often enough by my wife. I can unerringly trace the blame for all of my automobile troubles to the man who sold me a used car. I can, without hesitation, say that the high cost of living is to blame for the scarcity of money in my household. But the thing that I have never been able to discover, the thing that persistently eludes me, is who’s to blame in an automobile smash-up. —Manron E. Burns “Now, if the Demycrates don’t go an’ throw a wrench in this Coolidge prosperity.” “Yeh, I guess it is a little early.” Real Strong Stuff Chuck—I thought you prom- ised to save me some of that liquor you had. Wally—I tried to, but it ate holes through everything I put it in and I finally had to drink it. Making a Start It has been my ambition for man. movie star. I have thought the plan all out. I am going to arrange with a Hollywood reporter to ask one of the beautiful single queens if ny truth in the report that she is e ears to marry there is gaged to me. She will immediately deny that there is any truth in the report. The reporter will then publish the denial. This will be an_ excellent beginning, because all of the movie queens begin the report of their engagements with a denial, and then admit later that the re- port is true. Just as soon as she admits that it is so, I shall start for Hollywood. —Wirriam Sanrorp comicbooks.com