Judge, 1928-10-20 · page 21 of 36
Judge — October 20, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a multi-panel cartoon satirizing a Broadway play called "Women" starring John Halliday. The play closed in Philadelphia before reaching New York after a shot was fired during performance, which awakened the audience. The cartoon depicts men discussing the incident with crude humor. The upper panel shows two figures debating whether killing a policeman justifies hanging someone. Lower panels include maritime/nautical jokes about "getting off the boat" and marital infidelity gags about "one wife too many" and accusations of bigamy. The satire targets both the sensational theater scandal and contemporary attitudes toward law enforcement, marriage, and entertainment. The crude dialogue and slapstick illustrations are typical of Judge's early-20th-century satirical style, mocking both the incident's seriousness and the men's reaction to it.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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