Judge, 1927-12-17 · page 29 of 36
Judge — December 17, 1927 — page 29: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge satirizes early 1920s American popular culture and social attitudes. **Main Cartoon**: The top illustration mocks reckless driving and silent films. An elderly driver has apparently left his car to someone "in my will," suggesting dangerous, inherited incompetence behind the wheel—a commentary on the era's automobile safety concerns. **Clara Bow Reference**: The text critiques the actress and the shallow "flapper" films Hollywood produced, arguing they corrupted public morality through near-nude exhibition and sensationalism. This reflects conservative concerns about Jazz Age entertainments. **Humor Sections**: The remaining jokes mock working-class attitudes ("His Own Time"), restaurant quality ("chicken broth in its infancy"), and domestic mishaps. They're gentle social observations typical of Judge's middlebrow readership. **Overall Tone**: The page expresses anxiety about modern life—unsafe automobiles, degraded entertainment standards, and moral decline—wrapped in lighthearted ridicule aimed at urban, contemporary behaviors Judge's educated audience would recognize.
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able loge seats of the Colony, and when I woke up the news reel was showing the Marines landing in China, or Chicago or somewhere. I haven't the slight- est idea how “Cheating Cheaters” turned out, and you'll have to puzzle it out as best you can. ‘G= Your Man” is one of those shallow, superficial salacious pictures filled with near- nude exhibits of well-formed in- hale-exhale heroines that is shipped out of Hollywood for the edification of its gum-chew- ing audiences. Clara Bow is the exhibitionist in this particular picture who throws herself around the movie lot with girlish abandon, thus helping the circulation of the Evening Graphic and further strengthening a mass morality which week by week is making life less pleasant in this country. His Own Time A well-meaning pedestrian said to a man who was employed to advertise in the street: “Pardon me, but do you know that your sandwich boards are turned wrong side out?” “Sure, I know it,” was the snappy reply. “Yer don’t sup- = pose I’m goin’ to work in me Horririep PassenceR—W-what are you laughing at? lunch hour, do yer?” Experty Driver—I left this car to someone in my will! —Passinc SHow —Boston Transcript A man went into a restaurant and ordered chicken broth. After tasting it he called the manager and said, “Surely this isn't chicken broth?” “Well, sir,” replied the man- ager, “it’s chicken broth in its infancy.” “What do you mean?” “It’s made out of the water the eggs were boiled in.” —Tir Bits alarming warp? They call him Jack, because he's Tue Expert—I can only conjecture that your gal’s been always giving flat tires a lift. wipin’ the door down with a damp duster. Tue Master or INatecottre—How do you account for this —Hovmonist Judge pays $5 for cach one printed.” comicbooks.com