Judge, 1931-01-03 · page 4 of 36
Judge — January 3, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two distinct elements: **Top cartoon** ("How to Make a Big Hit With Dr. Einstein"): A humorous piece featuring Einstein meeting a gangster with a machine gun. The joke plays on Einstein's fame and the contemporary gangster culture of Prohibition-era America. The caption suggests incongruous social mixing—a respected scientist encountering underworld figures. **Bottom cartoons and "Gangster Activities" section**: Satirical commentary on 1920s-30s organized crime, featuring illustrations of gangsters and a text column documenting criminal exploits (mob parties, lottery operations, violence). The cartoons mock gangster behavior through exaggeration. The overall theme reflects Judge magazine's satirical response to American gangsterism and Prohibition-era criminality—treating serious criminal activity with comedic absurdity to critique its pervasiveness in society.
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JUDGE How to Make a Big Hit With Dr. Einstein “Vent, well, Lm certainly glad to shake your hand, Doctor. Rela- tively speaking, we're distantly re- lated, as it were. A second cousin of mine is married to a distant relative of Mrs, Einstein's former cook. That's relativity for you, eh, Doe? And how ire all the fourth and fifth dimen- Still going over big, ch? As to the wife only yester- erything around here is rela- And, believe me, if you ever I was sayi saw my wife’s relations camping. in our flat, you'd see how absolutely cor- rect that little old discovery of yours really is. As my dad used to say about Buffalo: ‘I don't like Buffalo. I haven't any friends there—only relatives.’ So, you see, this here dis- (4 covery of yours is absotively time, when you've finished look- t Mars planet, come over to the house and cat one of M see you in the Milky W —Artivr L. Lippmann Gangster, with machine-gun, meeting a bass violinist. Gangster Activities ang held a weekly n-together” party Friday afternoon, TNT was served. am In a statement to stockholders, Magistrate Hogitty pointed out to day that the Thirteenth District Court had made a profit of GO grand for the year of 1930, Members of the Zurrillio mob at- tended Edgar Wallace's pl “On “the other night. The lead man was razzed a several bot tles of the new government alcohol o were thrown, Tony Carmantinita of Greenwich Village has installed a new. sixty- gallon bathtub in the gin department of his coal business. -face Cornpone announces the ation of the West End Fish alers’ Protective Society. The an nouncement was made to the dealers b aad it’ Murfino, Brooklyn chief of the lottery racket, was presented with a bouquet of sixty homa chine-gun slugs by his associates re cently. The Murtelli mob threw a party last week in Flushing. ‘The party was identified later as “Wang” Gurtano, ‘former slot-machine operator of the 4 both together—let’s do ‘Body and Soul.” Brons. —Daxa L. Corus . Toned) “Now comicbooks.com