Judge, 1927-08-13 · page 34 of 36
Judge — August 13, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains film and sports criticism typical of Judge's satirical commentary. **"The Poor Nut" review** attacks a college-themed film as cheaply made and inauthentic, with actors who look like "night-club waiters" rather than genuine students. The critic mocks the production's Broadway theatricality and lack of familiarity with actual college life. **"High Hat" section** mocks boxing promoter Tex Rickard's decision to move the upcoming fight (appears to be Dempsey-Sharkey) from New York to Chicago. The satirist ridicules wealthy "suckers" (fans) who blindly support Rickard's profit-driven decisions while starving Armenians and Turks go unhelped. The proposed "Suckers Club" is biting satire—these privileged fight fans should redirect charity toward genuine suffering. **The cartoon** shows a car accident with a pedestrian being struck, captioned "Why don't you look where you are going?" — likely satirizing either reckless driving or inattentive pedestrians. The page reflects 1920s concerns: entertainment authenticity, sports commercialism, and indifference to international humanitarian crises.
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Judging the Movies (Continued from page 21) “TT Poor Nur” is a stupid production, full of impossible situations and cheap Broadway wisecracks. The big climax is as incongruous as a baritone chorus boy, and the actors supposed to represent college men looked like a cross-breed of night-club w: ers and sparring partners. They dressed and talked as though they were supposed to be members of a Shubert road show instead of a college, and the entire film had no familiarity whatever with our national clerk factories other than the fact that attending it was most tiresome and a waste of time. nema. While it was four or five years old, it was pleasing, subtle, adult entertainment; that Mr. Clarence Mecker, of Tenafly, N. J., writes that the new » it was an unusual picture. feminine interest in the fight game has been a helpful influence iven secing it the third time, it in his home, enabling him to put his domestic altercations on a was worth chuckling over, and if sporting basis you have an opportunity to see “The Marriage Cire “So This Is Pari Again” or Fan,” by a High Hat We could have a pin made in the shape of an all-day sucker (Continued from page 9) and our club colors would, of . . . course, be black and blue! and I think I’m entitled to be Step up, Gents! It costs nothing monial routine might revive y President, because I stood on the to join and we need members faith in the future of the motion top of a seat in the fiftieth row at badly Who knows? picture. the Dempsey-Sharkey fight! 7 » powerful enou to force birds like “Takes U Rickard to put on a fight show in a decent way! . . . and we may be able to run the reformers out of the country and get prohibi- tion repealed! . . . But we've got to get organized! As we go to press “Takes Us” is threatening to leave the New York suckers flat and hold the Fight money ¢ he could with Soldiers 4 . . « The poor little fellah! . . . The very first thing the Suckers Club should do is to pass the hat around for this pitiful case. . . . Forget the starving and Turks and let us on helping poor little out of this awful hole. . gether now, suckers! long cheer for good old ‘ Us” Rickard. SSS First Pepestrian—Why the don’t you look where Ay y rs you are going? EDWARD LANGER PRINTING CO., ING., JAMAICA, N. ¥- comicbooks.com