Judge, 1927-07-23 · page 26 of 36
Judge — July 23, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains miscellaneous humor and social commentary typical of the 1920s: **Main Content:** - **Fashion commentary** on expensive hat shops and a novelty "Couenophone" (piano-keyboard horn instrument) - **Dance crazes**: References to "dawn-hopping" and "finale-hopping" (popular 1920s dance fads), with a joke proposing a new "Lindbergh Hop" dance, capitalizing on Charles Lindbergh's recent celebrity from his 1927 transatlantic flight - **Product review**: A compact men's watch designed to fold out for bedside use - **Cartoons**: Two panels showing a car decorated with pennants—the joke being that removing the pennants reveals the car's actual poor condition underneath, satirizing shallow decoration masking defects - **Short story**: "Illustrating the Happy Ending" about Satan creating an extremely hot torture cell, then mockingly asking the victim "is it hot enough for you?"—a darkly humorous tale The page reflects 1920s consumer culture, dance fads, and celebrity obsession rather than explicit political content.
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You remember a couple of weeks ago we told you about the angelic hat shop where you could ts which were hor- Well, the other most adorable bonnets imaginable. And—my dears—only charge for the felt and the ribbon or what- ever trimming you prefer. Noth- ing for the workmanship at all. Surely, you can’t tie this? wa We have had several inquiries as to the name, etc., of the instru- ment with the piano keyboard. So we'll have to tell you ail about it. Well—it’s a horn and has about two or three octaves—base and treble. And when you hear it you can’t decide whether it’s a harmonica or an accordion. Its real name is Couenophone, but, so we understand, the very enter- prising leader of the California Ramblers nicknamed it “Goof that it can be had from any music shop where in- struments are sold, and we have a feeling that it’s better known as “Goofus.” We imagine x aS We are positively petrified for fear dawn-hopping has taken the place of finale-hopping. It must not be, so we are going to do our bit to sort of bring the two to- gether. Since we have Lindbergh hats and Lindy slickers, etc., ete., etc., we see no reason why some- body doesn’t invent a dance called the Lindbergh Hop. Wouldn’t it be utterly fasci- nating? = Far be it from us to steal Judge Jr.’s stuff, but we did see the most adorable thing for men the other day. A little watch, which is only about an inch and looks very much like ’s compact. You push the stem and it opens just like any other watch, but aside from that the face folds out so that it can be used on a bedside table. Is) that tricky? They are worn on a watch chain and we should think they'd be awfully convenient things. Have you been up to Post Lodge this season? It’s still about the same, which means that it’s a delightful place. They good music, excellent food, very nice crowd and a trio which is on the order of Olsen’s trio. Son, it goes without saying that it’s splendid. Don’t you feel the slightest bit lured? Six Best Steppers “Hallelujah” (Hit the Deck) “Russian Lullaby” (no show) “When Day Is Done” (no show) “Under the Moon” (no show) “Doll Dance” (no show) “Flapperette” (no show) Ss Illustrating the Happy Ending Satan felt justly proud of his work, and grinned in anticipation of a well-deserved high moment. With his own deft hands he had fashioned the new cell, so mul- tiply insulated with thick as- bestos that no tiny heat wave could escape from the interior. Then had come wecks of pains- taking effort spent on the heating devices: first, the most « sign of electric furns been installed; next, huge lenses concentrated a super-sun’s ri in an unspeakable fiery focus on the plate glass roof, and finally the immense grate was in position beneath, with a million tons of the sort of ¢ serve for their own use. I that operators re- These combined agencies had been go- ing full blast for some eight hours now, to the utter destruc- tion of a meagre thermometer that would only register up to 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit. Rubbing his hands, Satan ap- proached the telephone that al- lowed him to transmit speech to the occupant of the cell, and lifted the mouthpiece for the first of billions of taunts to come. “Ts it,” inquired Satan cheer- fully of the tortured one inside who had used the selfsa so often on E cnough for you? ne phrase s it hot —Wayne G. Hatsiey The man who always decked his car with pennants—and— the reason explained when they are removed. comicbooks.com