Judge, 1929-04-20 · page 31 of 36
Judge — April 20, 1929 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains mostly **advertisements and filler content** rather than coherent political satire. The main article discusses a theatrical production (likely R.C. Sherriff's *Journey's End*, based on context clues), praising the ensemble cast but critiquing the playwright's repetitiveness. The piece names actors like Leon Quartermaine and Victor Stanley. Below are several **light humor items**: a poem about "Equal Rights" where a husband discovers his wife sneaking upstairs the same way he just did; a joke defining "parasite"; and a music-teacher quip. The **advertisements dominate**: Phoenix Hosiery, Gem Clippers, Good Bye Hangnails, and a "Good Old Yale" teaser for another college drawing by an artist named Musial. The bottom cartoon features a courtier alerting a king to a moth in his beard, making a pun on the insecticide "Flit"—clearly an ad. This appears to be a typical mid-20th-century magazine page mixing light editorial content with commercial material, rather than sustained political commentary.
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s I have observed, the play now and then, for all its merit, gets to be a bit boresome. Sher- riff, due doubtless to his inexpe- rience in the playwriting craft, repeats himself, often pounds too insistently upon a single key and imes forgets that his char- acters are characters and is ob- viously too mindful of the fact that they are also stage actors. But it is not long in such jun tures before he pulls those char- acters a back into line and the attention of his auditors with them. His play is an unusual one for a beginner. Maybe, materials being so close to him and so familiar, it is the only play in him. With that same phenomenon we are not un- acquainted, whether in the field of drama or the novel. The company which the M. Miller has imported to serve up the manuscript, although it is not the original one, is excellent. Every man in it does a beautiful job. In the event that the actors are of the fool sort who kcep scrap-books, let me pleasure them by recording their s. They are Leon Quartermaine, Victor Stanley, Evelyn Roberts, Derek Williams, Colin Keith Johnson, who gives the finest performance of the lot, Henry Wenman, Jack Hawkins, Sidney Seaward and Eric Stanley. Equal Rights I went home late, removed my shoes, And played a sneaking game Up. the front rs—But lo! Ahead My wife was doing the same. —Kyickernocker Press > is a very persistent ru- ts, that Mr. Cool- » elected president of » Corporation, —Boston Transcript Illustrative Definition asite, my son, is one goes through a revolvi door on another person's push. —Cunistian Avvocate She (at the piano)—That last note was D He— ‘s what I thought. but I didn’t like to say anything. —Answens / On the busy feet of men the world over, Phoenix socks have proved that strenuous wear and many washings do not affect their lustrous texture and fine style over long miles of service. That’s Phoenix economy. Priced at 50 cents to $2 a pair. PHOENIX HOSIERY/ HERE’S TO GOOD OLD YALE! Mark it down—Another col- lege drawing by Mr. Musial will appear in JUDGE shortly. Sood Bye Mangnai Lngnails spoil the looks of yourfingersand COOK Co., 3 Beaver St. G Ansonia, Conn. “Egad! A moth in his Majesty’s whiskers! What ho, vassal, the Flit!” Abvr. comicbooks.com