Judge, 1930-03-01 · page 7 of 36
Judge — March 1, 1930 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Page This page contains three unrelated satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: 1. **"Near-Sighted Wife of Anthropologist"** (top): A visual joke about mistaken identity—a wife encounters her husband with what she assumes is company, but are actually skeletal specimens or anatomical models he's brought home. 2. **"Hay Center Gets on the Map"** (top right): A dialogue joke about a town's attempts to become notable, discussing plans for a mooring mast (likely referencing the Graf Zeppelin airship trend of the 1920s-30s). The humor relies on small-town aspirations. 3. **"Rebellion on Broadway"** (bottom left): A conversation between orchestra members about replacing jazz with classical music—reflecting 1920s cultural tensions between modern jazz and traditional symphonic music. 4. **"Statistic" section**: Brief one-liners about Rhode Island's telephones and subway advertising.
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JUDGE Hay Center Gets on the Map “What are you building here, Si? New grain elevator?” = oF “Water tower?” Sa mooring mast, isn’t it?” “Yep.” “Expecting the Graf Zeppelin to make another cruise?” Nope.” “Well, at do you want a mooring mast for “Part o' the cont “How do you mean? “Only visits towns that pervide a mooring mast this year.” “What does?” “Ain't no what.” “Well, then, who?” Near-Stanten Wire or ANTHROPOLoGIst—Oh! Excuse me, dear. “Paul Whiteman,” I didn’t know you had company. —Cuet Jounsox Rebellion on Broadway “Hey, Oscar! What's the idea kicking a hole in that derby “I'm quitting this lousy jazz or- chestra, Herman.” “Gosh, Oscar, you can't do that! You're the best trombone player we've got!” Well, I'm through, ennahow, sec? I'm sick of this horseplay music and hot-trick stuff.” “I suppose you're going back to the Philharmonic, where we got you from.” “You guessed it, Herman, Back to the Philharmonic to play symphonies and all the other classic stuff.” Yeah? Well, I told ‘em when they hired you to do jazz that you might pretend to like it, but it wouldn't be long before th find you was a Bachslider at heart.” Statistic Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union, has more telephones than the entire republic of China. And if you ever listened to a C| man speak over a phone, you'd know the reason. Of all the advertising in the subway trains, Mr. Vick’s seems the most a propriate: “21 Million Jars Yearly Office Boy—There’s a salesman outside with a mustache. Business Man—Tell him I’m in conference. ‘ Re aa Office Boy—I did, and he wants to : : 2 BE ie eat — ’ know if you'll be out of it before he = has a beard, too. “My gosh, this race has been goin’ on for hours!!” comicbooks.com