Judge, 1927-07-30 · page 18 of 36
Judge — July 30, 1927 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes 1920s cultural pretension and generational divide. The central figure—likely representing a young Jazz Age sophisticate—declares himself "crazy" while listing contradictory tastes: he rejects "high culture" (Shakespeare, caviar, formal dress) yet claims to embrace it through specific references (Ziegfeld Follies, Greenwich Village, literary works like "The Sun Also Rises"). The satire targets the era's newly wealthy or aspiring urban youth who performed cosmopolitan sophistication while actually preferring lowbrow pleasures: speakeasies, chorus girls, Coney Island. References to Texas Guinan (famous speakeasy hostess), Jimmy Durante, and Prohibition-era drinking venues anchor the 1920s setting. The repeated phrase "I am crazy...bughouse...out of my head" mocks this performative contradiction—the character simultaneously claims refined taste and celebrates vulgarity, embodying the period's cultural confusion and the magazine's skepticism toward modern youth pretension.
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JUDGE INIG | Crazy words, crazy tunes, do, do, dodio, do... . Lam crazy! . Tam bughouse. ... I am out of my head! ... I don't be- lieve in Prohibition; I don’t like radios... I think women dress immodestly. ... I don’t care for baseball nor movies. ... I don’t vote and I think Jack Dempsey is going to lick Sharkey. p> I don’t care for Shakespearian plays... . I would much rather see the “Ziegfeld Follies’... . I don’t care for Sherwood Ander- son nor Ben Hecht, nor Edgar \ tance! { Ne Gest, nor Harold Bell Wright. I like Texas Guinan, Moran and Mack, Clarke and Cullough and sugar on canta- loupe. -~f— I detest caviar, after-dinner coffee, brilliant conversations and sugar tongs. . } best friends, 2 i drivers, and my idea of nothing to do is teaing at the Biltmore, dinner at Alice Foote Mac- dougall’s, lunch at the Algonquin, riding on a Fifth Avenue bus, going to the Paramount So! -VR. Kelly OUVE Ze- COME -HC- A PAWNBRKRI drinking Scotch highballs, talking to a débutante, listening to an actor, spending an evening in Greenwich Village, dancing at the Biltmore Cascades, talking poli- tics, reading the Times, singing drinking songs and hearing a symphony concert. =o My idea of something to do is quitting work, stopping at Frank and Jack's, talking to chorus girls, truck drivers, waiters, t cab drivers, tenders and bootleggers, bar- policemen, going swimming, playing golf, shaking a cocktail shaker, cracking ice, eating hamburger sandwiches in pullman car lunches, watching the dawn come up like thunder, talk- ing philosophy, arguing about religion and life, dancing at George Olsen's, going to Palisade Park or Coney Island, going the wrong way on a onc-way street, listening to Jimmy Durant, read- ing “The Sun Also Rises,” “Re- volt in the Desert,” “The Story of Philosophy,” “Why We Behave Like Human Beings,” ader Horn,” singing ‘‘One- Eyed Reilly,” drinking champagne, burgundy, claret, gin rickies, silver fizzes, gin fizzes, mint WLS ines ue Uh BOSE house... . I S\ URRY AL —— Theater, LWA T= juleps, gin daisies, Tom Collins’, ‘Alexander's, Bareardi highballs, whiskey sours and old-fashioned cocktails... Aw shut up! eed I hate hats, canes, spats, stiff collars, jewelry, colored socks, stickpins, gloves, mustaches, side- burns, full dress . .. I like to wear a boutonniére. => I don’t prefer blondes, that is, very seldom ... I don’t like girls who neck, nor ones who are too intelligent or too dumb... I could murder women who keep GUESS WHAT AND Who! you waiting, women who brea dates, women who play musical instruments, except the piano, women who gush, women who talk baby talk, women who weigh over 120 pounds, women who use too much paint, women who recite poetry, snooty women, women who get silly on one cocktail, women who try to lead you when dancing, women who can’t swim, women who wear fussy things, women who giggle, women, women, wom- en... ahh hh !#% I am craz «--Tamb am out of my head! 2) TU NGHTY ase= comicbooks.com