Judge, 1930-05-17 · page 4 of 36
Judge — May 17, 1930 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The left side features an Aetna Insurance ad ("When the jury's picked, will they be picking on you?") showing a courtroom scene with various figures, emphasizing comprehensive coverage for motorists. The center contains "Judging the Books"—brief literary reviews of novels by Gorky, Williamson, Behn, Dell, and others. These are genuine book critiques, not satire. The right side advertises **Hotels Statler**, emphasizing modern amenities (reading lamps, mirrors, furnishings, circulating ice water, morning papers) as innovations that "keep ahead of your demands." There is **no political cartoon** on this page. It represents typical Judge magazine content: advertising mixed with cultural commentary, reflecting 1920s consumer culture and literary interests.
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hen the jury’s picked, will they be picking on you? Jury awards run high! The Etna Combination Automobile Policy offers the most compre- hensive protection ever offered to motorists, plus the complete coast-to-coast service of the great tna family—20,000 agents from Maine to California. The Hina Agent'in your MM community isa man worth knowing, Look bim up! The Aina Life Group consists of the Ata Life Insurance Company x The Atna Casualty and Surety Company « ‘The Automobile Insurance Company * The Standard Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut AETNA-IZE | SUDGING*“BOOKS | A ten-pound novel by the Russian, in which he and in its Gorn's “ I autob Greatest: Livin a lifetime's experiem wisdom and for the first time dy career leaves this department, fore a master sums up The word cially sound hollow. piece ssic” would espe William “Dandelion Days"- The life of Willie Maddison and his days at Colham School, back in rural vd. lish school life remain fascinating dc than ight. Curious how novels of Eng spite their being more common first editions of Harold Bell W Williamson writes the cleanest: “na- ture” prose of any living writer. Re read his “The Pathway,” a “beauti ful” work. Bein’s “Youth in Hell"—A terrible arraignment of the sort of thing that goes on in reform schools written by the lad who did “Love in Chie: 7 Harrowing, grisly, horrible but the truth. Love in the Machine A s that Floyd Dell carry ing on about sex again, the droll fel ! If he'd but carry it on outside pale of littertoor, we'd be more low the Held’s “Grim Youth’—More the Younger Generation and an why artists should stick their pastels and leave pencils alone. The drawings were good once. Mabie’s “The Saints, the Devil and the Ki ‘ovel built on the actual life of Louis XL, who has t dragged through the mud of seve novels but is now dusted off and pre- sented whitew trimmi and with meller : f you don’t like Sabatini's potboiling historicals but like your romance honest. Boyd's “The Long Hunt”—If you like Boyd retelling Winston Churchill, “artistically.” James Vane’s “Outward Bound” is a good novel turned into a play But now the trick is don Vane -death play of some seasons making a sound novel for those who didn’t see the play and pleasing recol lections for those who did. vice versa. success with Sutton “Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas"—For those who want to familiarize them- selves with what goes on in’ those places where the Gandhi Kid is pri gressing his bloodless nationalistic revolt. —Trp Suane your Hotels that keep ahead of demands The traveling public didn't de- mand a bath with every room, or circulating ice water, or a morning paper under the door at no cost—unti/ Hotels Statler inaugurated these improve- ments. There are also bed-head reading lamps, full-length mir. rors, colorful furnishings, even threaded needles in the pin- cushions in every room. In restaurants there is the widest variety, ranging from formal a la carte service to lunchroom or cal But it is in Statler Service that this policy of keeping ahead of your demands is most noticeable. are not only instructed but are trained in courtesy and helpful- ness. They, too, Statler employees cep ahead of your demands. HOTELS STATLER BOSTON DETROIT BUFFALO ST.LOUIS CLEVELAND NEW YORK (Motel Pennsyfrenia\ comicbooks.com