Judge, 1928-02-18 · page 3 of 36
Judge — February 18, 1928 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Section ("Judging the News"):** Three brief satirical news items mock recent events: Secretary Wilbur's Navy shipbuilding program (costing 1.5 billion dollars), the Skjellerup comet's trajectory, and Mayor Thompson's plan to connect Chicago with the sea. **Bottom Cartoon:** The illustration depicts a theater manager confronting a patron about an unpaid bill. The caption reads: "What's on the bill? Manager of Super-Moving-Picture-Theater—No films this week, madam. We're going to exhibit the ushers." The joke plays on the double meaning of "bill"—both the financial debt and the entertainment program. The satire mocks movie theaters of the era, suggesting they sometimes relied more on usher employment than actual films, or that ushers were the main attraction worth displaying.
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JUDGING THE NEWS In an address to the Sixth Pan- 17th Street in Havana, Cuba, At the University of Kentucky, American Conference, Charles ned President € five laboratory rattlesnakes were other road — killed by a small rat one of the United States has no policy of i : ith g intentions, — students had caught in a cellar. aggression. — Y 2 Well tell it There must have been some rare to the Marines! Observations made at the — stuff in that ce Lowell Observatory in) Arizona According to Secretary Wilbur, show that the Evans Hug’ said that the cet. Here's Skjellerup comet Mayor ‘Thompson is now work- our Navy Department is con- hay turned around and is now — ing on plans to connect Chicago templating a 20-year shipbuild- moving away from the earth ata with the sea and make — it ing program involving an ex- speed of GO miles a second. — America’s st city. Well, penditure of more than two and Who'd ever think our radio pro: there are b a half billion dollars. That's a — grams could be heard way out — than ever ¢: lot of money to sink in a navy. there! r fish in Chicago we out of the —Jack Suvrrreworrit SAGAN Patron—IWhat’s on the bill? Manacen ov Suren-Movina-Picturr-Tueater—No films this we » madam, We're going to exhibit the ushers. ig DGE. Volume 94, No. 2416, February 18 1928 Entered aa Second Cla tober 21, 1881, at the Fost Office at New York ( 819, Additional sotry at Jamaica, 11, i tye No under act of Match 3, Co. Inc, 627 West ied Street, New Vor cd FOLK” by Ae tm tie Ui S"and Great Uriaine Fred 1. Reyes, f 1 jent: ‘Josevh T. Cooney. Sectetary! 627 West New Vouen V. Particclar attention te called to the fact that every artcks 6 searing it JUDGE Te protected User? the provisioan of Section 4 Of the Copyright iS comicbooks.com