Judge, 1930-01-04 · page 9 of 36
Judge — January 4, 1930 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains three distinct satirical pieces reflecting 1920s American concerns: **"There's in Booze Who"** mocks Prohibition-era celebrity worship, suggesting criminals ("bootblack" Tony and Beppo) achieve fame through illegal alcohol distribution—a sharp jab at how Prohibition created glamorous underworld figures. **"Over the Counter Quotations"** presents everyday working-class dialogue, with the final exchange mocking *The New Yorker* magazine's sophisticated pretensions, suggesting that publication caters to affected urban elites. **"A Grim Drama of Rattlesnake Flats"** parodies Western dialect stories and melodrama through exaggerated cowboy characters (Alkali, Coconino) discussing a rattlesnake encounter. The punchline—a man kicked his boot at the snake and merely dented a Model T Ford—deflates the Western genre's dramatic tension with mundane reality. The cartoons criticize both emerging mass media (celebrity criminals, literary snobbery) and tired literary conventions (Wild West tales), using humor to expose social pretense and changing American culture.
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Theyr’e in Booze Who Though Tony was a bootblack And Beppo was the same, Their Scotch and gin Now place them in The Alcohol of Fame. Over the Counter Quotations “Two dollars is all I can give you on this watch.” “Gimme a chawk malted!" “Is somebody waiting on you?” ... And you've got to take them back! They started running the first time I put them on!” “Just because I work for a living, mister, ain't no reason for you to get fresh!” “There's a whisper of loveliness in the air “Aw, where the h do you think you are—in the ‘New Yorker’?” The Song-Writer’s Credo That when you introduce tl well tell both of them good- That nearly everyone mmy waiting for him somewhere down South, That if the expression, “I love you,” is repeated often enough in a lyric, it simply can’t help being popular. That all of your troubles will vanish at once if you can only manage to force a smile or sing a little love song. That the height of marital bliss is living in a house with a blue room, That practically every attractive girl answers to the name of Sally. That grammar is some kind of subject they teach kids in school. That Handel, Liszt, Bach and all those guys wrote some darn good melodies, but of course the words need a lot of changing. —Onmonv Ronnins A Grim Drama of Rattlesnake Flats “Yuh shore had a narrer escape, Alkali ! “I shore did, Coconino. Them things is deadly this time o' year!” “They shore are. How did yuh happen tuh git away? “Well, Coconino, yuh see I was just takin’ me a little pasear around th’ range, not even thinkin’ one o’ them things would slide over towards th’ arroyo for water. An’ all t’ onc’t I heern th’ danged thing rattle!” “It's a turrible, fear-inspirin’ sound, Alkali!” “It shore is. Well, Coconino, I turned fast like, an’ if there wasn’t the thing, all ready to strike at me!” “Why didn’t you cut loose with yore gun?” “It was too close for good shootin’, Coconino, An’ it didn’t rt to a dear pa you might as + rattle just once—it kep’ on rattlin’! “No! Well, there weren't nothin’ to do but what I did, which to cut loose all of a suddint with one o’ my boots an’ kick th’ danged thing clean outa my wa “An’ did yuh hurt it?” Naw, Coconino. Just dented a fender, mebbe. But them ol’ Model T's. . . . What's the use 0’ killin’ one just because mebbe it skeered yuh a little? —Cuetr Jounson Cor—See here—it’s against the law to shake a mop out th’ window! Guy—Yeah? Well, this happens to be my wife! 7 comicbooks.com