Judge, 1927-06-25 · page 30 of 37
Judge — June 25, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains theatrical criticism mixed with period advertisements and light humor. ## Main Content: "Judging the Shows" A theater reviewer discusses a Broadway musical revue (likely from the 1920s based on references). The review critiques a show featuring: - Comedy songs mocking Jewish shyster lawyers - Sketches satirizing Prohibition-era speakeasies (where people drink "strawberry sundaes and chocolate sodas" to get drunk) - College football satire - A weak Western movie parody in act two The reviewer is largely negative, calling the comedy "pathetically unprepared" and one performer's efforts "terrible." ## Cartoons Two small gag comics appear: 1. A couple discusses borrowing a car and hitting something at a tram station 2. A "Big Game Hunter" wife tells her husband not to worry about torn clothes from hunting ## Context for Modern Readers The ads (auto sickness remedy, bitters, cigars) and theatrical discussion reflect 1920s entertainment and concerns. The Jewish lawyer jokes reflect casual period stereotyping common in mainstream publications.
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Solution of Last Week’s Puzzle [>[O} iC[z] OlZ[D [Dn DIDIZ\C\r-} He—How did your dad know we borrowed his car last night? Sue—So unfortunate! He was the old pot we pushed over at the \ tram terminus.—Tir-Birs. Auto SICKNESS Journey by Sea, Train, Auto or Air in health and comfort. Moth- ersill’s promptly ends the faintness f and nausea of Travel Sickness. 34 750. & $1.50 at Drug Stores or diret | _ The Mothersill Remedy Co. Ltd. § New Yorts Montreal London In Use ABBOTT'S Tonic Appetizer frs2vers’ BITTERS a: Sample by mail, 25¢ [— _} C. W. Abbott & Co., Balto., Md. OF BRAINS i 2, GARS| -MADE AT KEY WEST— Wire or Bic-Game Henter—Don't bother about it any more, dear; it isn’t worth getting your clothes torn for. Judging the Shows (Continued from page 21) first act gets nicely under way with a comical song called “Mockowitz, Gogeloch, Babble- kroit and Svonk,” lampooning -w York’s shyster lawyers. A skit, reminiscent of part of one in the r-before-last “Grand Street Follies,” follows, showing in an amusing manner an old-time barroom with the clients, under Prohibition, getting cockeyed on strawberry sundaes and chocolate sodas and ending up with a boozy rendition of “Sweet Adeline.” Another skit satirizing the pro- fessionalism of college football marks the high spot of the pro- ceedings, and there are also a Passing Snow number of skilful hoofers, an engaging brunette vocalist, whose name I can’t find in the play-bill, and a soothing bawdy-house tenor or two. These serve to bolster up the act for all the pathetically un- prepared comedy efforts of Col- lier, a rather terrible sentimental nd a flat Spanish number. Then comes the disastrous second act, beginning wit tomime supposed to burlesque a modern Western movie thriller. There follows more of Collier, who reads what are supposed to be humorous telegrams sent to him from various actors’ clubs; a dismal affair called “Hogan's in which the otherwise gaging vocalist, clad in a red blouse, stands on the dimly The millionaire’s doctor prescribes tennis. —Lustice Brarrrer comicbooks.com