Judge, 1929-03-30 · page 8 of 36
Judge — March 30, 1929 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon:** Depicts a spring scene where a young wife's thoughts turn to "homicide"—satirizing domestic tension, likely during post-WWI era when marriage strain was a magazine staple. **Main Article:** "Gag Gonifs Strike Again!" by S.J. Perelman, satirizing smugglers ("gonifs" is Yiddish slang for thieves). The piece mocks a smuggling ring operating through the "Judge" office, with references to "Morris Plan" (a lending company) and chemists analyzing suspicious items. The humor targets both actual smuggling operations and the magazine's editorial chaos. **Bottom Illustration:** Shows "Marcell's Beauty Parlors"—likely satirizing the beauty industry boom of the 1920s-30s, possibly mocking beauty treatments or quack cosmetics marketed to women. The overall tone is typical Judge satire: urban, cynical, and socially observant.
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are stripped, wa JUDGE In the Spring the young wife's faney lightly turns to thoughts of homicide. GAG GONIFS STRIKE AGAIN! Quip Smugglers Defy Justice! By S. J. Perelman, Smuggling Editor of “Judge” New York, March 5 1 like reared head in) New uggling should 1 with nor with schmelir totally dif- ferent sport introduced into this country by Max Schmeling, Ger- man ivyweight box er. The familiar re- frain, “Fe-fi-fo-fum, I schmel the blood of an English-mun”, does not need any introduction to “Jepor” readers who know anything about schmeling According to the United States Customs Department, a band of international joke smugglers have been at work running contra- brand quips into the office of “Jupcr”. Al- though all contributors and searched before entering “the editorial sanctum’, each issue of the ot humor, which, as everyone knows, is forbidden by the Papal Con- cordat of 1801. Morris Plan, chief of the customs serviec, spoke bluntly when interviewed on the matter. “Speaking bluntly. 1 think they smuggle them into the office in zine seems to contain their mouths.” said Mer Plan point-bluntly when interviewed on the matter. “One of my men arrested a cartoonist: recently on the pretext of looking at his por celain inlays, but when we opened his vis the suspect had swallowed - Phin yesterday seized a xroup of morris dancers who have been in the habit of visiting the “Juper” ottices weekly to beg pennies by their quaint folk - rhythms. In- the tre p were Morris Fal ky. Morris Siegel, ind) Morris Rosenthal The latter, Mr. Plan contends, looks mighty lak a Rosenthal he once indicted for dunning and abbott in a public place, “Our chemists ha v« analyzedh on tinued Mr. Plan, “And we find that he contains Vitamin D in large quantities. Upon boil ing he went into col loidal suspension and later into ‘Good Little Bad Little You’. Short ly afterward his lip curled in’ disdain) and he disappeared. You know,” mused Mr, Plan musingly, “In disdain age things like that comicbooks.com