Judge — June 2, 1928 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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IMIG IH. JUDGE, JR., FLIES OCEAN FOR ILLUSTRATORS’ SHOW! France, June as we were —Just preparing to hop off for Munich, Mae received a cable- ram saying, “Expecting you in New York for Illustrators’ show,” so being loyal sons of the S. of I., we immediately turned the nose of the “Spirit of Pol Roger” to- ward the west and in less time than it takes Harry Grant Dart to tell a story we had sighted the Statue of Liberty! And on the evening of May 9th I was seated next to Jimmy Walker in the Heckscher theatre (notice the “re,” George?) and enjoying the show! When you take into con- sideration the date of this article you'll have to admit that we made pretty good time! Well, it was a very funny show indeed, espe- cially in the first four rows, but I do wish the Illustrators would let_ me write a sketch for them next year! It would be called “Art for Art’s Sake” and there wouldn't be any mention at all of how much money they got for their pictures nor would the dia- logue contain the names of Hearst or any Art Editors! In fact, the whole idea of the thing would be to show that the Illustrators Paris, work for the pure joy of the thing and that the thought of money never enters their heads. The poster next year ought to be a large dollar sign with an artist's model, nude, down the centre and three of our highest paid illus- trators entwined around it in the shape of an S. It would make a beautiful combination symbol and monogram for S. I.! Rube Goldberg's “Gentle Warning” sketch was the fun- niest thing of the evening and showed a device (see sketch be- low) for handling the unexpected home-coming of the husband. Dean Cornwall and Frank God- win ran a close second with heartrending dramatic poem. A John Held sketch wasn't even as good as John Held's pictures and a sketch called “Artists Pre- fer Models’ was in rather t taste. J always thought that illus- trators were such aesthetic souls gaurity. Now if it was the rotary club | smoker Dubuque, 1 would : but such a group of highly sensi tive artists! Another shattered ! After the esx pe illusion show, in order to the crowds that followed us, Mac and I disguised ourselves as revenue officers and took a peep at night life. Everything scemed to be very quiet along the Main stem (Ha! Ha!), but hav- ing just come from a week-end in Paris we may have been a bit In fact, come to think of it, I guess we were a bit biased at that, but it must be remem- bered that we had to live up to our reputation as Revenuers, ‘The three o'clock curfew law is. still in effect, which rather puts a damper on the evening, because promptly at six A. M. they make you go home! However, our dis- guises helped a lot and we found one or two hundred places that stayed open after six. They say Daylight Saving is having a ter- rible effect on Night Clubs, as morning comes so much quicker. But they make up for it by put- ting their checks ahead one hour. biased. comicbooks.com