Judge, 1927-07-30 · page 23 of 36
Judge — July 30, 1927 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This satirical page from Judge magazine contains two distinct sections: **Top Section:** "Judging the Movies" by Pare Lorentz reviews contemporary films, including "Dearie" (the main focus). The review notes the film tells a familiar story: a night club hostess works to support herself and send her son to college—a premise Lorentz sarcastically notes is based on "well-known facts" that chorus girls actually do this. He criticizes the film for depicting idealized "big-hearted matrons" doing family chores, targeting middle-class fantasy rather than reality. Other films reviewed include Buster Keaton's "The General" and Harry Langdon's "Long Pants." **Bottom Cartoon:** Titled "New Legal Wrinkle Introduced in Murder Trial," it satirizes the insanity defense. The sketch shows a courtroom where a defendant pleads insanity and demands "being tried by a jury of his mental peers"—the joke being that finding eleven other mentally unfit jurors would be absurd, mocking both the defendant's logic and the legal system's vulnerability to such claims.
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