Judge, 1927-10-08 · page 25 of 36
Judge — October 8, 1927 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **multiple satirical items** rather than one unified cartoon: 1. **Top narrative** mocks a pompous railroad worker who dismisses the narrator's question about a film called "Soft Cushions," then proves unreliable—the Broadway Limited does depart as scheduled. The satire targets bureaucratic arrogance and the disconnect between workers' self-importance and actual competence. 2. **"There's a Limit"** section excerpts a melodramatic play scene where a villain has ruined the hero. The humor lies in the villain's absurd catalog of wrongs ("reduced me to beggary, broken the heart of my aged mother, and eloped with my wife"), which exceeds even theatrical convention—hence "there's a limit." 3. **Brief items** include: Yorkshire boy actors touring Germany (with anxieties about potential retaliation), and a doctor's quip that middle-aged men call digging "golf." 4. **Bottom illustration and caption** feature a car advertisement for Kelly-Springfields tires, with dialogue praising modern cars' reliability. The page is primarily **light satirical humor and advertising** rather than serious political commentary.
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The bugler turned to me scorn- fully and with an air worthy of the General Staff, said: Broadway Limited is le Two fifty-five daylight saving time, track number twenty-one.” “T don’t care,” I snapped back. “Let it. I would just like to ask you whether you could tell me anything about a picture called “Soft Cushions?’ The bugler gave me one look of terror and then fled across the wastes of the ground level, blowing Reveille loudly enough to mobilize the oldest living G. A. R., whose name slips me just at this time. However, I did note that the bugler was right and that the Broadway Limited did leave at and I did meet my incoming » but I can’t tell you any- thing about “Soft Cushions,” ex cept that i that fine Fairbanks picture Thief of Bagdad,” and not worth a minute’s time. MSRAGKS) iththe word EX book-case. There’s a Limit The play was of the most | wildly dramatic character, but the great scene was that in which the hero confronts the sneeringly triumphant villain. “Sir Marmaduke,” he ex- claimed, “you have reduced me to beggary, broken the heart of my aged mother, and eloped with my wife. But beware! Don’t go too , —OvtTLook Twenty-five boy actors from Yorkshire have left for Germany, where they are ive perform- ances of English play: Many people fear there may be reprisals | in this country. —P nG Suow “Digging is a good hobby for a middle-aged man,” says a doctor. But why does he so often call it golf? —Lonpon Opinion “They make pretty good cars nowadays, don't they? You hardly ever see one hung up on the road unless it is having tire trouble.” “And very seldom then, if the car is on Kelly-Springfields.” 23 ADVT. comicbooks.com