Judge, 1930-12-27 · page 10 of 37
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# "When Christmas Comes" and Judge Magazine Satire This page from Judge magazine contains holiday-themed humor targeting 1920s American society and celebrity culture. **Top cartoon**: A father has stuffed ticker tape (stock market records) into Christmas stockings instead of gifts—satirizing how the 1920s stock market boom consumed Americans' finances and attention, leaving nothing for actual holiday spending. **"When Christmas Comes" poem**: By Arthur L. Lippmann, it nostalgically celebrates innocent childhood wonder, contrasting with modern materialism. **"Things I Never Knew and Still Don't"**: A satirical gossip column mocking contemporary celebrities and cultural figures—Floyd Gibbons (fast-talking radio personality), Judge Crater (missing justice), Senator Brookhart, and references to popular entertainers like Amos 'n' Andy and Ruth Hanna McCormick. The column playfully debunks rumors and exaggerates absurdities about public figures' private lives, typical Judge humor targeting the famous and fashionable of the Jazz Age. The overall page reflects 1920s concerns: financial speculation, celebrity obsession, and the gap between myth and reality.
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When Christmas Comes [tse 4 child who doesn’t baw!, Who docsn’t- mouth effusions, A simple child, possessed of all Illusions. A child who tunes in Unele Don, A bairn who's not bombastic, A fauntleroy no bit icon- Oclastic. I do not care where he may be, In Greenland or Atlanta, us he gives fealty nta, Ah, bring me back this laddie shy, Now all you've got to do is try To find one! —Antuve L. Livesaxy. “Say, Dad, what's all this ticker tape you stuffed in our stockings?” “That's what happened to my Christmas fund.” Things I Never Knew and Still Don’t Tt Floyd Gibbons really doesn't talk fast at all, but that the effect over the radio is produced by a trick invented Wilbur Huston, » of the waiters in the Central Park Casino were formerly professors in a Western university and were released to make room for some good football players. That Justice C ris still in a Fifth Avenue bus, trying to get from Thirty-second to Fifty-fourth Strect. That Senator Brookhart was for- merly a bartender and is known throughout the Southwest for his abil- ity to take rye straight, That the book, “All Quiet On the Western Front,” was stolen from a talking picture of the same name. t the name Notre Dame come from an Ita word, “‘notria dami meaning halfback. That Leopold and Loeb are not in prison, as most people believe, but are successful radio ente ners known to the world as Amos ’n’ Andy. That O. O. McIntyre has never set foot in New York City, but has just read about it in book: Edgar Wallace wrote the com plete new edition of the British Ency- clopedia in his spare time. That the game of hop-scotch is now nong society people. it Calvin Coolidge is to write the book for Ziegfeld'’s next musical comedy, and that the lead will be played by Ruth Hanna McCormick. —A. S. comicbooks.com