Judge, 1928-01-14 · page 27 of 36
Judge — January 14, 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **film satire and social humor** typical of Judge magazine's satirical content. **Top section:** Tom Foley parodies melodramatic war movies—specifically criticizing their contrived plots. He mocks the clichéd narrative: a soldier carrying messages through danger, a girl back home who won't marry the hero unless he wins a basketball game, his miraculous victory, and his improbable success at a horse race using a junk horse he steals. Foley sarcastically notes the filmmakers prioritize dramatic spectacle (gunshots, drummers) over logic or realism. **Bottom cartoons:** Brief joke panels on class differences and ethnic humor. "Mrs. Maggs" boasts that half the world doesn't know how the other half lives—but she's doing a fine job telling them. The final joke plays on accent stereotypes, with a Scotsman and Irishman discussing "The Miracle" (a show where a Scotsman defeats Irish fighters). The page satirizes both **popular cinema's narrative absurdities** and **period social pretensions and ethnic stereotyping**.
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and the audience is becoming anxious to find out what kind of bathing suits they wear over there, somebody steps in front of the camera, causing a fadeout : consequent. lessening of eyestrain, rshe falls in love with the hero of the picture. AIL the other fellows came over to fight, evidently. Well, anyway. eventually the Ie has to carry a message through the lines. “One general to another.” He couldn't) wait till he saw the fellow. No, the hero has to go throu barbed wire and mud. Why? So. they can shoot off the fireworks and give the trap drummer something to do, Meanwhile, what is taking place at home, where the girl he left behind him is? Le didn't leave her behind the palms in the conservatory in another guy's arms, but that’s where she She is telling this substitute that she cannot marry him unless he wins the interclass bask game. He does win the the winning basket being shot by him just after the pistol shot ending the game goes off but before the ceho is heard, thus myuking it official. They have no money to start married life on, so he recognizes a junk horse as a Kentucky thor- oughbred, knocks the junkiman off his seat, drives madly to the fair grounds and arrives just in time to win the derby, the horse coming from behind. His girl rides the horse. Never mind the rules and tions of the Jockey Club. The other fellow returns home, finds out how things are and goes back to the battlefields of France, which have been made over into another set. He meets the made- moiselle and all ends well and by eleven o'clock, thank God! —Tom Footrry Here lies my vw Let her lie: She's found her peace— So have 1. sansnannhoabeltienabilas ug, aide GSge POY? $5 FOF LOC One prt Ales JUDGE Mrs. Macas—/ always say, my dear, one half the world doesn't know ‘ow the other half lives. Mrs. Bicas—Well, Mrs. Maggs, it isn't your fault if. they don't. -Loxvoxn Opinion MeIxtosin—Do ye ken, O'Flannigan, th’ name o! th’ show where the Scotsman knocks oot a gang 0° Trish? O'F Lannican—Sure, an’ that’s asey-——“The Miracle.” Passtna Stow comicbooks.com