Judge, 1931-04-11 · page 6 of 36
Judge — April 11, 1931 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of "Will It Come to This?" The top cartoon shows two men on a swing reading a newspaper, with one asking, "Don't you remember me, Buddy? I'm the guy that robbed your bank last summer?" This references the prevalence of bank robberies during this era, satirizing how criminals might casually encounter their victims in public spaces. The four-panel comic strip below depicts men viewing nude paintings in what appears to be a gallery or art exhibition. Each panel shows a man's increasingly dramatic reaction to the artwork—from casual viewing to apparent shock or distress. The satire mocks prudish reactions to artistic nudity, suggesting hypocrisy in public attitudes toward art depicting the human form. The overall page satirizes social anxieties and behavioral contradictions of the era.
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Will It Come to This? “Perr will be a forty-five-minute wait for ping-pong tables in the Grand Lounge. Th -e will be a fifteen-minute wait for backgammon boards in the Mezzanine Lobby. There will be a short wait of not more than one-half hour for bridge lessons on the second-floor lounge, and a short wait for tables for bridge parties. There is standing room only in the Main Lobby for tonight's dancing, and a twenty-five-minute wait for a dance with Lucille La Fleur, the dancing in- structress. There will be only a short wait to tee off at the first hole of the Miniature Golf Course, and there will be a wait of one hour for all those who wish to enter the Camelot Tour- nament on the fourth-floor lounge to your right. Seats are now ava le in the billiard room for spectators, and there will be a fifty-minute wait for tables. The box-office is now open for you to put in reservations for seats for the main picture. There will be a wait of two days for all seats.” “Don’t you remember me, Buddy? I’m the guy that robbed your bank last summer!” comicbooks.com