Judge, 1931-09-26 · page 7 of 40
Judge — September 26, 1931 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("The Still Life Artist Who Couldn't Afford a Model"):** Satirizes struggling artists during economically difficult times (likely the Great Depression era). The chaotic fruit and vegetable stand scene mocks an artist forced to use cheap produce as still-life subjects instead of hiring human models—a commentary on poverty within the arts community. **"The Path to Glory" Article:** A personal essay about self-improvement through a mail-order public-speaking course, tracing the author's transformation from timid clerk to confident speaker after taking "Getting There with Gab." **"Wine Bricks" Cartoon:** References Prohibition-era prohibition enforcement. The illustration appears to mock a commercial product marketed to circumvent alcohol laws, showing two men examining wine bricks—a real product sold during Prohibition purportedly for "educational purposes."
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FRUITS «2 VEGETABLES, The Still L The Path to Glory Dover: Pa still be plodding along in the same old rut if I hadn't chanced upon an intriguing little coupon one day while skimming through a magazine. I owe it all to that coupon, I'll admit I was skepties I thought that good spea born, not made. But ne at first: From it I ned amusing new home study course that would enable any shy, mousclike man to throw off his timidity and be- come a dominating speaker It was just what I needed. I was sick of being a forty-dollar-a-week clerk, sick of being called a human clam. So I bought the course and d voted thirty minutes a day to its cinating lessons. At once self-confi- dence began to blossom within me; my bashfulness slipped away. Then came the day when I resolved to test this wonderful ability that I had acquired. I went to the office of Mr. Humpstead, my employer. Coolly, forcefully I gave him my ideas about the new advertising him in no une n words the mi takes he had made in the past. He listened, speechless with amazement. That ; marked the beginning of a new life for me. Now I'm earning thirty thousand a year, and I say again it was the little coupon that put me where I am, For if Mr. Humpstead hadn't fired me that day I'd never have decided to start a correspondence school of my own, —Ormonn Ronnins 1a JUDGE Artist Who Couldn't Afford a Model. Broadway Ballade war's the delay? Why isn’t the rehearsal started 2” “Well, vou se ten, I don’t want excuses now «+. Here we got a chorus hired, and ances figured out, and scenery that 50,000 painted! Sixty-seven of the most famous unemployed stars signed up, and you tell me we got to hold up this revue!” it's a tough break, but...” “There ain't time for tough breaks! The billboards and ads already are telling millions about the opening of the biggest show Broad I put you in why don’t the rehearsal start “Chief, I'm awfully sorry, but it’s no go. During the excitement of get ting everything else ready, I forgot the joke!” —Curr Jounson “Some day, dey'll perfect dat invention and we'll have gin bricks!” comicbooks.com