Judge, 1928-09-29 · page 24 of 36
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This page satirizes modern literature and morality through literary criticism. The main essay attacks novelist Wallace Irwin's novel "Lew Tyler and the Ladies," mocking its portrayal of women as easily seduced by a middle-aged man. The critic—appearing to be a woman—ridicules the implausible plots where respectable wives abandon their families for luxury, flappers marry unsuitable men, and even virtuous women succumb to a philanderer who then lectures them morally before returning to his wife. The accompanying cartoons mock social hypocrisy: a college classroom scene where a student admits he came to "play football," not study Shakespeare; a divorced couple awkwardly meeting; and a romantic scene where a man praises a woman's "gift for expression" in poetry. The satire's point: modern fiction presents unrealistic, immoral scenarios about infidelity and seduction, while society pretends shock at such behavior. The cartoons underscore widespread duplicity about respectability and actual conduct.
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| \ I HF \ WHE YW Mr. Wallace Irwin may know men, but when it comes to women I think Wally is all wet! In his latest novel, “Lew Tyler and the Ladies,” he makes. us out poor frail creatures falling at the fect of a forty-seven -old Babbitt who is a sort of com- bination of anova, Don Harry Thaw. To make it more intricate, I might explain that Lew Tyler, a former hell-hound with the gels, has been a model husband and father for many rs and then suddenly breaks k rsex. Mind you, I don't say the opus isn't very Juan and mongst the Mr. Irwin's but his entertainir women are all wrong. For e: one of his in- trigues is with a Park Avenue Mrs. who is willing to s-s-sell her s-s-soul for a mess of luxury, and Wally has her luring the forty-seven-year-old Lo- thario up to her de luxe apartinent by cooki ner for him! And all with her own little hands! Another, Irma, by name, which Wallace makes out asa flapper, but a thoroughbred withal, Lew sticks in a stuffy little Riverside Drive apartment and then she turns around and marries a Jewish vul- garian! But w Lota, who Lew has a terrible yen for and chases all over the ¢ chapters, suddenly succumbs to h what does our Hero do? He sends with a moral lecture and goes back to his wife! What, I ask you, is the older generation coming to? x din- y for twenty charms and => Take the “Lady in Marble,” by Robert E. Me- Clure. A man and his wife go to Paris and he falls in love with a little French girl named Cherie who hails from Cincinnati! Ye Gods! Ain't any- thing sacred to married people? Since reading these two books, I've been afraid to even look at a married man! areal It scems so nice and homey and old-fashioned now to sit home and try out new records with a quiet little Harvard boy! And here are some of the good ones. (All Columbia.) “Just a Little Bit of Driftwood"—‘Out-of- Town Gal” (Whiteman). “Dream House"—"“Just Imagine.” “Who Wouldn't Be Blue”—"Adoree.” a aS And some steppers—"Good Boy” (Good Boy)— “I Wanna be Loved by You” (Good Boy)—"Just a Minute” (Just a Minute)—"Pickin’ Cotton” (Scandals) —"Blue Shadows” (Vanities). oLLear INstreeton—Mr. Scruggs, x kindly explain the influence of Shakespeare upon Restoration Literature? “What the h-ll—I came here to play football!” you met my wife?” No, not since we were divorced.” eR—Some moon! —I always said you ought to write poetry—you have such a keen appreciation of beauty and such a gift for expression! comicbooks.com | }