Judge, 1931-01-24 · page 7 of 36
Judge — January 24, 1931 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Section - "Meditations of a Jobless Gag Man":** This satirizes a struggling comedy writer during what appears to be the Great Depression era. The monologue lists cascading personal failures—financial ruin, homelessness, collecting coins for survival—while maintaining darkly humorous dignity. The illustration shows a poorly dressed man pitching jokes to an editor, the caption reading "I can't pay you, I tell you—why, I even had to sell my auto." This targets the plight of creative professionals during economic collapse. **Lower Section - "Some College Graduates Who Have Made Good":** This profiles successful Yale and Princeton alumni (Lewis K. Floyd, Leonard Dalrymple, Theodore Tuffe), highlighting unexpected career paths. The satire suggests college education's uncertain connection to success, contrasting formal credentials with unconventional achievements like "fence-sitting endurance contests." The page generally satirizes Depression-era economic anxiety and career instability.
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JUDGE Meditations of a Jobless Gag Man ‘w outaluck like a florist: with hay fever. Trouble may pay an occasional visit to ot Old Man people but he makes his permanent home with me, ... Um not a child of misfortune; I'm triplets... . Last year I was sitting on top of the world. ‘This year the world is sitting on top of me. ... My chief trouble is financial; I'm in a delicate state of wealth... . I'll be in the bond business after today; the vagabond business. . . . Last week I was a collector of rare old coins; I collected them in a tin cup on the street corner... . To paraphrase the soc and popular young till my hat floated; but I columns, I am a prominent club- about down. . . . I'd walk east 1ave no hat. —Govrney Bippe. “I can't pay you, I tell yous sell my auto. » [even had to Some College Graduates Who Have Made Good I veiws K, Froyp graduated from + Yale in 191 Vhile at Yale he conceived the idea which has made him famous everywhere. Floyd was watching the captain of the football team having his picture taken while seated on the Yale fence. A year after he graduated Floyd began his cele- brated Fence Sitting Endurance Con- test. He has been sitting on a fence for ten years in Keokuk, Iowa, and holds the international record. Leonard Dalyrymple is a Dart- mouth alumnus. Dalyrymple acquired a capable sales line while writing let- ters to friends telling them how cold it is in Hanover. He is at present third ranking Frigidaire salesman in the country. When he was playing football at Princeton Theodo Puffe never real- ized that he was forging his life work. Graduating from coll in 1926 Tuffe is now a well-known prize fighter. He has ninety-six knockouts to his credit, a full dozen more than any other heavywei —Artien Sitverseatr / Or Scratched A little more f this modern re- sed into American History, and // = they'll discover that Paul Revere and his horse were left at the post. “Smell that air, Gus!” comicbooks.com