Judge, 1931-12-05 · page 3 of 36
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews** rather than political satire. The main content includes: 1. **"Camelot" Game Advertisement** - A board game by Geo. S. Parker advertised as fashionable entertainment for "young and old" 2. **"The Sins of New York" Book Review** - The text discusses a moral anthology that apparently criticized New York City's perceived depravity. The review notes that despite the book's stern moral judgments, New York continues unchanged—suggesting satirical commentary on the ineffectiveness of moral crusades against urban vice. 3. **"California" Train Advertisement** - Promoting the fastest train service between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles The page reflects early 20th-century concerns about urban morality and the emerging consumer culture of games and travel advertising.
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A Game sy Geo. S. Parker The Latest Fashionable Game For Young and Old WHEREVER the are, you will find Camelot played. No other game of | compares with Camelot in activity of move- ment, in the fascination of its plays, or the thrill of its problems. Camelot may be played for points —furnish- ing a new form of excitement. Play three games, and you'll become an “addic CAMELOT—CASTLE SET The New $5 Set with Ivoroid Pieces The Red and White Ivoroid Pieces are a delight to handle, and double the fun of play- ing! Until now, they have been obtainable only in $10. and higher priced sets. Ask for the new Five Dollar Set with} Ivoroid Pieces. -Price, $5.00) TOURNAMENT Edition: with Laree Large ted and F a POPULAR Editio wares and | Cloth Red Bo Other Editions, $1 to At DEALERS' or by mail What Experts Say of Camelot Sidney S. Lenz says—“The more you play | Camelot, the better you like it. I think it’s a swell game.” Milton C, Work writes—“In Camelot, Mr. Parker has originated a new and brilliant game of extraordinary fascination. Easily learned, its liveliness of action opens the held for adroitness and strategy of the high- est type. Camelot is one of the few really great games.” Write for information about the $1000 CAMELOT Contest! Other Famous PARKER GAME! Ping-Pong. Rook, Pit, Tourin; a, Five Wise Birds, Derby-Day, Pastime Picture Puzzles, ete. “The Standard of Excellence in Games” Pegity, dy, __ SALEM. MASS... NEWYORK. LONDON PARKER BROTHERSinc AUDGING™ BOOKS You might have thought, had you given the matter any attention, that after the publication of that noble scream of a moral anthology, “The Sins of New York,” all of Methodist America would have risen as a man and tendered the freedom of the city of Zenith to Edward Van ivery, the doughty lad who compiled the thing from old files of the Police Gazette. Here was someone b out that old provincial war c York City is not in America. the suburbs of hell.” Iti is in However, and you can go ahead and knock me over with Kate Smith, the rest of America, evidently having experienced a change of the inner workings or something (possibly as a tribute to the life work of Hank Mencken), grew insanely jealous of the book. Instead of rubbing their hands in pots of glee over this stern indictment of the Gotham’s morals, there came from every nook and cran- ny of this great, Sumnerized tract the cry, What! is sin the common prop- erty of that effete rube known as the New Yorker? Haven't a lot of broken Mosaic epigrams flowed under the bridges of Main Street? Why draw the line against hinterland folk? Couldn't they also have been sinnin’, carousin’ and hackin’ at their wives back in the gi So Edward Van Every beat a hasty retreat into his old Police Gazette files and the result is the “Sins of America,” a companion book to the “Sins of New York.” Just as loud, sensational” and funny, specializing in the dirty bedevilment that went on at the Main Street crossroads back in the facial pork chops period. Just the few odd thoughts the book inspires and please excuse redun- dan The editors of the Police Ga- cette were very moral men. This is based on a close study of their edi- torial opinions. True, they anticipated a sort of Macfadden interest in the human form and rather capitalized on their findings, but who is to deny the essential morality of the bare Bernarr himself? Besides, you've got to illus- trate immorality to get good moral contrast. For some reason there is something exciting about the way the women dressed in the Police G te days. Their clothes hid their deficien- cies and didn’t accentuate the bony, knobby or gnarled. Love in the bean- bag era was just about the same as it ii Murder is always murder, but fashions in murder change. Be- fore the Gazette went chorus girl, it was probably the American Mercury of its day, being the frankest, most realistic magazine then published. (Continued on page 24) 1 ve i is still chieF fastest and most exclusive train %- ali fornia Extra fast- Extra fine: Extra fare Ore nights fromChi- cago to Los Angeles. Only three nights from New York. Will Carry Phoenix Pullman This Winter Booklets listed contain maps that intrigue you; pictures that entrance you; descrip- tions that lift you into the colorful desert and moun- tains of the Southwest. After Californie—Hawaii _JUST_MAIL THIS COUPON ss. Tr, Santa Fe Sys. Lines, 1010 Ry, Ex., Chicago, Ill, Check those wanted: D California O The Indian-detours O Grand Canyon is} O California and Arizona Hotel Rates. Name. comicbooks.com