Judge, 1929-03-30 · page 11 of 36
Judge — March 30, 1929 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains two satirical pieces from *Judge*, an American humor magazine. **Top cartoon**: "Hey, Stop Picking Up Those Butts! Bellowed the Bowmen" mocks the pretentious artistic world. The figures appear to be caricatures of famous artists (references to Van Gogh and Gauguin in the text suggest art-world satire). The absurdist humor—a cockney mistaking "la Grippe" (influenza personified) for an "Andalusian panic," competing orchestras with ethnic stereotyping—ridicules both artistic pretension and wartime anxiety. "The Morris Plan" likely references contemporary financial schemes. **Bottom cartoon & poem**: "Dirge of Disillusionment" by Arthur L. Liepmans satirizes lost ideals through everyday disappointments: wealth inequality ("the rich get richer"), romantic letdowns (the woman ordering cheap food), marital disillusionment (a snoring wife), and artistic compromise (wanting to write poetry but needing butcher/baker money). Each disappointment ends with "Zip! goes another ideal!"—mocking youthful optimism destroyed by reality. The second cartoon shows a streetcar scene with the caption mocking a 245-year-old child—likely absurdist humor about fare-dodging or welfare fraud.
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HEY, STOP PICKING UP THOSE BUTTS! BELLOWED THE BOWMEN The Morris Plan now takes pleasure in presenting a dance recital by la Grippe, the Andalusian panic. “Strike me pink, Bertie, wot's that noise outside?” quavered a cockney, “Oh, it’s only an owl,” quoth his comrade, “1 knox it’s an Vowl, but We now introduce a battle of music between Vincent van Gogh's Society Orchestra and Gauguin's Jewish Ramblers. Dirge of Disillusionment The rich—they get richer; the they get poorer— s another ideal! ly defendant bedevils the juror Zip! goes another ideal! You dine with a beautiful maid vis-a-vis Who studies the menu an hour ere she Remarks “Chicken salad) and cawfee for me!” Zip! goes another ideal! ‘The wife that I wed is addicted to | snoring ys another ideal! author grows nd boring: Zip! gocs another ideal! Instead of these jingles my h I would try With beautiful poems that no one would buy, But think of the butcher and baker—Oh, my! Zip! goes another ideal! Meruvsenai’s Moturn—Certainly [won't pay fare for this —Artier L. Lirpataxs child—he's only 245 years old! comicbooks.com