Judge, 1928-11-03 · page 9 of 36
Judge — November 3, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# "Judge" Magazine Page Analysis This page satirizes 1920s American culture through multiple vignettes: **Top cartoon**: Mocks the "talkies" (early sound films) by showing a ventriloquist's dummy wanting to break into movies—a joke about talkie actors being as wooden and controllable as dummies. References to Princeton and various characters suggest satire of shallow Hollywood aspirants. **"In Hollywood" song section**: Ridicules the era's movie star culture and the "it girl" phenomenon, mocking actresses like Mae Murray, Clara Bow, and Greta Garbo as frivolous and wealthy. The final verse jokes that ambitious young women will do anything—even have their fathers pay carfare—to chase stardom in Hollywood. **Bottom cartoon**: A dime museum curator displays a supposedly microscopic engraving of "the Lord's Prayer on a Pin's head." An atheist warns his son against reading it as "propaganda"—satirizing both religious spectacle-mongering and growing skepticism toward religious claims. Overall, the page lampoons Hollywood excess, consumerism, and cultural pretension of the Jazz Age.
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JUDGE MY BROTHER WANTS TO GET IN THE TALK- IES, TOO, BROACHED THE VENTRILOQUIST’S DUMMY Get in there, Wylie, and break a leg for dear old Princeton. “Now admit that you like talkative women as well ax you do others,” pressed Miss Sweet and Pungent Chop Suey. “What others?” repulsed Mr. Gitchigoomy gloomily (or goomily), winning the breast-stroke in a walk. We now introduce Perelman’s Post-Prandial workers playing their new number, “Just Like a Melody From Out of the Sties.” In Hollywood Mae Murray makes a lot of dough In Hollywood, in Hollywood. The dollars rain on Clara Bow In Hollywood, in Hollywood. If you've got “It” you'll never fail, To stardom's heights you'll swiftly sail - Another Modern Fairy Tal In Hollywood. Why, Greta Garbo bathes in milk In F in Hollywood. And Rin-Ti he sleeps on In Hollywood, in Hollywood. So dally not, your suitease pack, Ambitious Jill in. search of Jack (And Pa will pay your carfare back From Hollywood!) —As bi Le “Can you give me a sentence with the word ‘antenna?'” Curator or Dime Museum—And here, ladies and ¢ “That antenna of your busi- we have the most minute piece of microscopic engrav ness. world... the Lord’s Prayer on the Head of a Pin! “Tube bad; if you condenser, Atitest (to son)—Don’t read a word of it, Robert! wireless someone else.” propaganda. comicbooks.com