Judge, 1928-01-28 · page 7 of 36
Judge — January 28, 1928 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis **Top Cartoon**: Three men discuss sending someone to Siberia. The caption "Joe, give this guy a one-way ticket to Siberia, laughed Dimitri" references Russian exile/punishment—likely satirizing Soviet communism or Russian brutality. The joke appears to mock harsh Russian authoritarian practices. **Bottom Cartoon**: Shows a couple in bed. The husband reads "a fascinating burglar story" rather than going to sleep, while his wife (presumably) objects. The caption jokes about prioritizing entertainment over marital duty. **Main Article**: "Chance for a Scenario" proposes a humorous subway-construction movie plot, detailing dramatic scenes (cranes, water pipes, excavation) and bureaucratic chaos. It satirizes both filmmaking trends and New York City's notoriously difficult infrastructure projects and permit processes.
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Chance for a Scenario It seems te me the movie people are overlooking a good bet when they don't make a pie- ture about the new subway, It's something: new—so new, in fact, it won't be ready for a couple of years—and it is something they Should) look into. | Everybody else does. There is a lot of in- terest right now in the thing; just notice all the people always watching the subway builders at work. , There could be some dramatic scenes incorporated in’ a picture of this kind. The swinging cranes, the dumpearts, the blast- ing, the bursting water and gas pipes, the descent into the ex- cavation, the necessary descent of those who have business there and the unnecessary or accidental descent of those who have not, the desolation of the avenues, the frantic shopkeepers and all that sort of thing. The title of the picture could be “AIL for a Nickel” of something like that. : OF course there would have to be a plot. but’ what could) be simpler? Here's a tentative syn opsis: Daisy ‘Tell, an office girl, is always late for work, be- es to work on the subway and it takes so long to canse she gr close the doors of the cars at each station, so many get only half in and prevent’ the doors from closing, and subway trains Hvup—No, dear, I’m not coming to bed yct—I’m reading a tracks, install the turnstiles and Did you ever hear about the tall, lissom blonde I used to drag Well, lissom my children and you shall hear, It seems treo around? plumbers 4 pool they have at Taswar, for 20,000. gals!" capacity plumbers, girls. fascinating burglar story. vouchsafed one. “Yeh, 1 hear it has @ “Say, boy, that’s some swimming kibetzed Rockwell, Keep away from can't run unless all the doors are closed. So she thinks why don't they build another subway, | not realizing that this would only make things twice as bad. | So she writes to the City Hall and they O. K. her proposition, bay the shovels and condemn — | the streets. Then the fun com- mences. ‘They start digging so far down in the streets that one rother: workinan remarks to you sure we're still in New York?" ‘Then. they start Dlastin: until every window in the neighborhood “is broken. | When they have finished blast- | ing, they discover one window which hasn't) been broken, so they resume. ‘Then they lay the — | ] stations, and all is ready, On | comicbooks.com