Judge, 1927-05-07 · page 5 of 36
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# Analysis This page celebrates Gertrude Ederle's 1926 Channel crossing—the first woman to swim the English Channel. The main article reports her achievement, accomplished faster than previous male record-holder Captain Matthew Webb. The portrait labeled "PAPA POPOVER" appears to be her father, identified as a nutmeg/spice businessman. The accompanying images show Gertrude practicing her swimming technique. The "Pop and Plop" comic strip at bottom, by Zopp, uses onomatopoeia (POW, BOOM, WHAM, PLOP) to depict slapstick action—likely unrelated to the main story. The satirical angle appears gentle: celebrating American female achievement while the headline's pun ("Tub Girl Conquers Channel") playfully reduces this athletic feat to bathtub-scale humor, typical of Judge's comedic tone.
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TUB GIRL CONQUERS CHANNEL! American Girl in Amazing Swim Feat ! LONDON, ENGLAND, May 7.—All England is celebrating to-day Gertrude Popover's amazing feat of crossing the channelinatub. Miss Popover left. the Coast of Brazil at 6 A. M. Eastern Standard time and arrived on the left bank of the Hudson at 10.10, Daylight Saving Time. This beats Babe Ruth’s record by 9 hours and 64 minutes. Well Chaperoned Miss Popover was accom- panied by her parents, her Aunt Fanny Welterweight, 6 tugs, 3 rowboats, 5 gondolas, the Leviathan, 1 public ste- nographer, Joseph T. Cooney, Notary Public, the U. S. Marines and George Olsen's orchestra, She was greased OUR GERTY AMERICA’S PRIDE and Joy, “Gerty” Popover, who con- quered the channel single handed, and without aid. ABLOID thoroughly before were all the traffi Advances Swimmingly She started at a clip, making revolutions per minute and keeping that mean 4 age all the way across the Potomac. Kept in Good Spirits Her only nourishment dur: ing the trip was Haig & Haig, which v fed to her through a strav Three-quarte! of the way across Miss Popover suffered severe case of hic- coughs and it was feared she would have to give up the Starting, as cops. out 2700 PAPA POPOVER, father of Gertrude, is in the wooden widget business. When inter- viewed by a Tabloid reporter he laughed heartily and said, “Britons never, never shall be slaves!” fast | NUMBER | RE IS iH HE RUDE. practising the standing, sitting, standing dive on her father’s ostrich farm in Bronxville. pennant, \she held America’s GERTY’S PAPA but with iron her own and name famous. nerve | business is made $ ‘ate. arting to- morrow, Miss Popover will give her own account of how she crossed the Alps in a motor- boat. Don't fail to miss it! NEW PRIZE The Evening TABLOID has offered a prize of $5,000,000 to any Mother who can _ better Gertrude’s time over the Hima- layas. This amount will be doubled if the successful con- testant takes along the kiddies and a copy of the Evening | TABLOID. ‘veral film companies. When interviewed by a TABLOID reporter, Miss Popover, with a girlish laugh, said that she did it for her hubbies. Miss Pop- over is only 78 years old and expects to enter Bryn Mawr |next Fall. Her father anu- factures nutmegs and POP AND PLOP comicbooks.com