Judge, 1929-06-29 · page 28 of 37
Judge — June 29, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **Left side:** Advertisement for Frank Tourist Company's Mediterranean cruise on the Cunard liner *Scythia* (January 28, 1930), marketed as "sophisticated" luxury travel for wealthy clientele—rates from $950. **Right side:** A satirical article titled "Life in Our American Universities" mocking 1930s intellectual pretension. It depicts a fictional Columbia College student named "James Huxley Hemingway" (clearly parodying Ernest Hemingway's famous ennui and literary style). The joke: this young man has absorbed all the fashionable intellectual trends—Freud, Jung, modernist literature—yet feels existentially empty. He's so bored he literally bumps his head on his desk for stimulation. The satire targets both Hemingway's celebrated world-weariness and the affectation of college students imitating literary cynicism. The bottom cartoon depicts "the bathing beauty who made $10 a day as a photographer's assistant"—likely commenting on 1930s commercialization of youth and beauty.
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