Judge, 1927-07-02 · page 8 of 36
Judge — July 2, 1927 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three cartoons satirizing American leisure and social life circa the 1920s-30s. **"The Ideal Summer Resort"** by Arthur L. Lippmann is the main piece—a lengthy satirical description of a fictional perfect vacation destination that exists nowhere. It mocks typical resort experiences: overpriced amenities (Swiss cheese sandwiches at 70 cents), amateur entertainers, socialite matchmaking mothers, pretentious "French" barbers, and exploitative souvenir shops. The humor lies in the impossible fantasy—an actual resort with *none* of these annoyances. The **Arctic Home cartoon** shows wealthy figures in an igloo, mocking upper-class leisure pursuits even in extreme conditions. **"A Good Response"** jokes about Prohibition-era policing: when asked who responded to a police whistle, the answer is "three bootleggers and a taxi driver"—suggesting law enforcement was so compromised during Prohibition that only criminals and cab drivers (implied accomplices in illegal transport) would appear. The cartoons collectively critique American consumer culture, resort tourism, and Prohibition's failure to eliminate crime and corruption.
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JUDGK in Upper Crawss Aner “What’s coming, Pop?” “Shush—My next B. V. D.’s. > Home— en—My lord—Blubber is served. The Ideal Summer Resort (With all manner of obeisances) It can be reached by automo- bile in two hours over smooth, level roads without the necessity of detouring once. It is devoid of mosquitoes, poison ivy, bowling » croquet courts, pinochle ers and other pests. It has no sickly string ensemble to encourage indigestion at meal- times and melancholia at Sunday night concerts. It has no long lines of rockers occupied by ambitious mothers with eligible daughters and female hypochondriacs engaged in an organ recital. It boasts no “grill” room where after midnight Swiss cheese s wiches retail for seventy each and ginger ale is dispensed at eighty cents a bottle. It has no “French” barber who spends his winters a Im Beach and his summers disparaging the guests at the hotel. It does not go in for Saturday “get-togethers” and discourages home talent and parlor tricks by itresses do not chew gum and its hack drivers do not chew tobacco, It has no cute little souvenir “shoppe” where one may pur- chase balsam pillows, birch-bark canoes, colored postal cards and candy at rates three times too high. It frowns on sportive children who romp through the halls, and threatens ejection to any female guest who appears in knic Its rates are from $4 to day, American plan. * oe HH Oe HK Try and find it! —Arruur L. Lippmann A Good Response “Did anybody come blew the police whi “Three bootleggers : cab driver.” Bd While many pugilists are roll- ing in wealth, a lot of the others are rolling in nothing but rosin. comicbooks.com