Judge, 1928-02-18 · page 33 of 36
Judge — February 18, 1928 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page advertises Judge magazine's March issue, featuring a satirical piece on Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The main article teases a mysterious "unpardonable sin" one must avoid during Mardi Gras festivities—the text promises readers will discover what this transgression is in the full feature. The accompanying photographs show costumed revelers in traditional Mardi Gras dress. A character named Pierre warns that while the carnival permits foolishness, flirtation, and pranks (like tickling with "slim paper dusters"), there exists one forbidden behavior. The satire likely plays on Mardi Gras's reputation for moral looseness and license, contrasting the celebration's permissiveness with some specific unspoken social boundary. The dramatic framing—calling it "ultimate and unpardonable"—suggests ironic commentary on either carnival excess or the hypocrisy of otherwise respectable society briefly abandoning propriety. The page is primarily promotional, listing other March features including Prohibition-era content and interviews with contemporary figures.
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The Unpardonable Sin THERE is just one important rule to be : observed through all the fH carefree frolic of Mardi Gras. Frolicthat comes yearly foroneshort week to New Orleans, making its mobs go mad with the mood of this cen-7*™ 4 : tury-old custom of the ay Creoles. One may play *~~ the fool, flirt and speak to whom one pleases in the mob. One may throw or chin with slim paper dusters. ‘But beware,”’ says Pierre, “that you do not & commit the ultimate and unpardonable ” sin.” Read what it is in the special feature article “‘Mardi Gras.” Is America Going Dry? Read ‘Here’s How,” a comprehensive study of the social phase of prohibition. MEN, MORALS and MODERNISM An interview with Booth Tarkington in which he dis- cusses most freely the current follies of our day as they appear to him through the eyes of a young-old writer. Other Features in The Torch of Descartes 4000 Men Invented This Miracle! Air Travel in the World of Tomorrow The Glory That Was Sherry’s A Forward Look “Fighting Dan” Moody From Parsonage to Grand Opera Green, the Man Himself My Story—Alice Foote MacDougall Sinister Salvage ust 29 What Are Your Yearnings ? Castles in Spain, alluring visions, humble human wishes, we all have them locked in the recesses of our hearts. Here is a symposium of various yearners who have made known their innermost yearnings. Do You Fear Blindness ? Read the story of a man who faced and conquered this handicap. the March Jssue — Service Departments — Switzerland—The Playground of Europe What's New in Car Values? Remodeling a ‘‘New"’ House Getting Medicine Out of Food Prize-Winning Letters in ‘Older Generation" Contest At Your Newsdealers NOW Send Coupon | NEW AGE ILLUSTRATED 1 Graybar Bidg., New York RAT I enclose $1.00 for a 6 months’ trial sub- U scription starting with March issue. § city... D : SEN ComicnooKsy: