Judge — June 4, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes fashionable society and entertainment through multiple jokes. The top section mocks short skirts as healthy exercise, with a woman displaying the garment while men discuss its benefits. The middle panels ridicule wealthy men's priorities—one discusses encouraging vice through money, another boasts about golf as life's meaning. The bottom row features what appear to be vaudeville or theatrical performers in top hats, engaging in rapid-fire ethnic jokes and language gags ("Polly Voo Frawnsey?" "Do you speak French?"). These represent the era's common stage stereotypes. The final panel references Phil Baker, an entertainer, with a pun on "A Night in Spain"/"A Night in Pain." The overall satire targets both the leisure class's shallow values and period entertainment's reliance on crude stereotypical humor.