Judge, 1930-02-15 · page 9 of 36
Judge — February 15, 1930 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains satirical commentary on 1920s-30s American life. "The Humorist's Credo" by Arthur Silverblatt mockingly lists tired clichés that humorists rely on: illiterate movie producers, radio as nuisance, Mayor Walker's tardiness (a NYC political figure), the stock market crash's effects, and stereotypes about policemen and truck drivers using profanity. The cartoons include two surreal strips featuring "Marfina the Oriental Harem Dancer" (likely spoofing exotic dance fads) and several one-liner jokes about contemporary concerns—psittacosis (a disease), old barber shop mugs, and secretaries' legs. The "professional book censor" joke references 1920s censorship debates. Overall, the page satirizes both mass entertainment formulas and modern anxieties about technology (radio, airplanes), morality, and social change, while gently mocking the magazine's own reliance on predictable humor.
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JUDGE The Humorist’s Credo With a bow to Mr, Nathan Truar all moving-picture producers | are illiterate. | That the radio is a nuisance. | ‘That Mayor Walker has never been | on time for an ¢ That passer planes make it wiseerack or other. rs falling from acro- point to utter some That a great many people were af- fected by the stock-market crash. That all little men have big wives who are prone to be back-seat drivers. That Rudy Vallee is not all that he is cracked up to be. That there is never any business transacted in Congress, That bridge invariably leads to an argument, That there is something immensely laughable about college students. | That the Saturday Evening Post | contains at least a thousand pages | weekly. | ar hat all policemen are Irish and frequent speakeasies. hat there has never been a truck- driver who does not use choice speci mens of profanity. That choice specimens of profanity are represented by the extra punctua tion marks on a typewriter. That any “credo” is uproariously funny and will be immediately ac- cepted for publication, —Anrticr SipverseatT 2. SOocLOW : Professional book censor to his wife 1 as he looks into a mirror: “Is my face | : dirty, Eleanor, or is it my imagina- | i tion? | 1 1 ‘ The trouble with psittacosis is that : it has come too late, It would have _ fitted nicely into lots of crossword | y puzzles. 5 - About the only thing to do with old d razor blades is to write jokes about k € Airplanes are here to stay, but peo- s ple who use them evidently aren't, n “What's become of all those old 7 mugs you used to sce in the barber shop: | “Oh, most of them are shaving Hesnaxp—What awful legs on that secretary! themselves now, I guess. 7 comicbooks.com