Judge, 1931-11-28 · page 10 of 36
Judge — November 28, 1931 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three satirical pieces mocking Depression-era hardship and media excess: **Top cartoon**: An unemployed orchestra conductor tells a wealthy woman he's "out of work." The caption "Yes, these are lien days" puns on "lean days"—referencing Depression poverty and foreclosures. **"Big Moment" cartoon**: Mocks a U.S. President's hand-shaking record during a time when unemployment and desperation meant citizens sought any political contact for relief or employment. **"Film Blurb Writer" section**: Parodies overwrought advertising copywriting that applies melodramatic movie language ("naked, pulsating story," "You'll LAUGH! You'll CRY!") to breakfast cereal. It satirizes how advertisers manipulated Depression-anxious consumers by selling mundane products with exaggerated emotional appeals and pseudo-scientific health claims (vitamins B and D). The page's recurring theme: During economic collapse, Americans experience both genuine hardship and ridiculous commercial manipulation.
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Revised aittne, sailing, over the bounding main, And we'll see him in ev-ry newsreel ‘Till Jack gets home again! % And maybe the hair wouldn't fly in a football game between the Barber College and the House of David! The Graf Zeppelin car- ried to Brazil a baby grand piano, a gorilla and a flock of canaries. Now, if they could find a soprano, they'd be set to open a broad- casting station, And our wife wonders why there isn’t just as much agitation in this country for the repeal of the depression. “Why, whatever are you doing, my good man?” Yes, these are lien days. “I'm an orchestra leader out of work, madam.” The Film Blurb Writer breakfast food at! Eat!! Eat!!! Don’t miss this super-thriller of the breakfast table! The naked, pulsating story of mins and their flaming love for ishing carbohydrate! Friends —companions—chums, until... Never has vitamin B risen to great- er hygienic heights. Never has v min D had such a magnificent réle. Never has the seductive carbohydrate been more glamorous, more inviting, more stirring to the soul, the senses and the appetite !! See the weird, underwater struggle in the bowl of half-and-half. Revel in the pagan sugar-sprinkling scene. Tune your cars to the glorious, crack- ling, crunching of each gold-brown, crispy kernel! You'll LAUGH! You'll CRY! You'll SHAKE! You'll glow with HEALTH! No member of the family can af- ford to miss this digestion-provoking triumph, It's the all-time -super-super- breakfast food epic. Every mother who loves her chil- dren, every father who has a family, every child who wants to grow up clean and good and right, should cat “BRANSTIES" —the great thrill- food of the nation. See it at your grocer’s next MON—TUES—WED. (Also Mickey ‘Toast, “Marmalade Before Your Eyes” and other selected short subjects.) —D. 0’K Bio Moment in THE Live or a U.S. Presipent He beats all previous hand-shaking records by three minutes and fifty-one and one-fourth seconds. 8 comicbooks.com