Judge, 1930-11-22 · page 4 of 36
Judge — November 22, 1930 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# "Judging the Books" Page Analysis This page is primarily **book reviews and advertisements** rather than political satire. The main content reviews several novels including "The Bracelet" by Robert Hichens and "Party Husband" by Geoffrey Barnes, critiquing their literary merit and romantic plots. The cartoon "Not so hot for touchdowns" features a football player being tackled, advertising Aristocrat Playing Cards. The joke is that while balloons might be unreliable for serious football, the cards themselves are dependable—a lighthearted product endorsement unrelated to politics. The page concludes with a hotel advertisement for Chalfonte-Haddon Hall in Atlantic City, promoting leisure travel and relaxation. No significant political commentary or social satire appears on this page.
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Not so hot for touchdowns . ... these toy balloons! ALLOONS area “bust” ata football game . . . and poor H quality cards area “bust” at any card table. You can't afford to | let a few pennies’ difference in } cost cheat you out of the best game you are capable of playing. For you—for all good players — who want cards that help instead of hinder, Aristocrat Cards are made, They have the ease of fi shuffling, the snappy pickup, the quick, sure fanning that you have always wanted, and the sharp- 4 ness of printing that avoids an- noying errors. High, lustrous |) finish as well as linen finish. Ask | for Aristocrat Cards and look for the bank-note backs, exclu- sive in this brand. Atistocrat PLAYING CARDS RUSSELL PLAYING CARD CO, NEW YORK, U. S. A. Bridge and Poker Pack Judging the Books (Continued from preceding page) dough, He tells about a galleon that's cighty-four yards from the end of the dock in the bay of the town of Tober- mory, Scotland, just sixty feet down, with at least five million in bullion on it. They're (all Scotland) working on that now, but Mr. Driscoll lists lit- erally dozens of little troves that are just as juicy. some on lane | Some are in the ocean, IL of them sound like casy money for anybody with a shovel and a little sense. Mr. Driscoll thinks most of the loot will be recovered in the next twenty years or so with mod ern methods, so if vou need the money you'd better get started right now, te “Broadway Buttertly Murders” comes from the pen of Tip Bliss, an-expert humorist. Thus we expect (oh, yeah?) and tem. Tip treats » Philo Vance to be a rr in all-time fiction to a similar fellow. But, strangely and satisfyingly, unlike Philo, this’ chap is always wrong in all his. surmises od clean laughs what's more—we those who eat char: while the dumbest cop on the scene is right. Besides the comedy, too, there is mystery and yeoman writing to the not unrequisite written goodies, Re" we Hicuess’ “The Bracelet” is rich in that lovely, heetic, emotional, piece, qualities in sionate, feverish quality which is such » marked and necessary characteristic of the better Hapdoodle. It’s all a dolt girls a bracelet making each ink she was all in all to the boob. hey, who had been friends till then, parated, and it is here that Hell enters to be Paid in Full. It all re- quires pages and pages of love scenes, death scenes, courtroom scenes, with a few light bedroom scenes, possibly for the sophisticated carriage trade. It w., the very thing for the night the blizzard keeps you from the | movies. | | about who © two upicee, is, i. 0. Barnes’ Grorenes arty Hus- band” is a tale of a gént’s emo- tional woe, suffered inthe Ex-Wife. sinned manner of sinned, so his wife und think they both learned a lesson but we're not sure. It is one of those things in which a | character about to enter th of the story jumps into his or her | of Geoffrey's He we ht clothes for seemliness’ sak and better sales. literary style goes something like this:—"God, but it’s Hell! When- ever I sce black lace shirty-shirties— course, I can't help remembering my pet name for her (the absent wife, off | with another gent)—Mussolini!” —Trp Suane to rejoice a3 A day Chalfonte- Haddon Hall for your Thanks- COME down to giving dinner. Here is fes without confusion, a bounti- ful, joyous meal without the exhausting demands of prep- aration, Instead . . . there is the beautiful and in If, Sq orating sea. h. A ride on the beach. A snooze the sun. Relaxation in the friendly comfort: and luxury of Chalfonte-Haddon Hall. Fall and winter rates now in effect. Write for informa- tion and literature. A Moto- ramp garage adjoins the hotel for your convenience. American and European P! Chalionte- Haddon_Hall ATLANTIC LEEDS AND LIPPINCOTT COMPANY comicbooks.com