Judge, 1927-09-10 · page 27 of 36
Judge — September 10, 1927 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains theater reviews and advertisements from Judge magazine. The main illustrated cartoon depicts two men with an early automobile, discussing the vehicle's tires. The text mentions "Kelly-Springfields" (a tire brand) and "the best," suggesting this is a disguised advertisement for that product. The left column contains scathing reviews of three Broadway shows: "A La Carte" (criticized as tedious), "Tenth Avenue" (called cheap melodrama), and "Babies à la Carte" (dismissed as worthless trash). The reviewers name specific creators like Harold Atteridge and S.L. Simpson. Below are humorous quips—one about wives forgiving husbands' pasts, another mocking a man named Meyer—typical of Judge's satirical commentary style. The overall page mixes genuine theater criticism with advertising disguised as editorial content, reflecting early 20th-century publishing practices where commercial interests blended seamlessly with journalism.
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Judging the Shows ging (Continued from page 18) was all that the reviewers could do to restrain themselves from rushing right back to the New Amsterdam Theater and waiting at the stage-door to carry Harold Atteridge off on their shoulders. “A La Carte,” in addition to the feebleness of Mr. Kelly's a dull tournament in bad revue stencils and worse vaudeville. Aside from an ex- tremely good ballet dancer, a Miss Hoctor, there is no one or nothing in the show to stimulate the interest for a moment. If I am wrong and there is, it must have been made evident after the antecedent boredom had driven me out of the theater. Ill mdb nti Avenve,” by the MM. {eGowan and Griscom, is a cheap crook melodrama wherein all the yeggmen and other tough mugs have been directed by a suave producer not to act with their hands in their pockets. ‘The heroine is the kecper of a board- ing-house for thieves and mur- derers, the mistress of with a hot yen for stil who nevertheless is so pure in | heart that she declines to accept money to pay the rent because it is tainted. ‘This dreadful drivel one crook another, its co-author a gentleman at one time the ambas- delegate of the great Republic to Italy ] “Babies & la Carte,” by S. L. Simpson, is the worst conceivable kind of trash and is not worth the ink to blow it up. OIeZyY ADE. 5 They call her Appendix be- cause somebody's alze her out ys taking Judge pays $3 for cach one printe “Can a wife forgive her hus- | band’s pas a contem- porary. vy, if hubby gives a present. —Passinc SHow “I quarreled with Meyer; I should have beaten him black and blue, if I hadn’t been prevented.” “Who prevented you?” | “Meyer.” —Nesetspatter, Zurich “Stepping high with those new Kelly-Springfields, aren't you, George?” = “Nope! Just got the best—doesn't cost any more!” ADV. comicbooks.com