Judge, 1931-12-19 · page 6 of 36
Judge — December 19, 1931 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three satirical sections: **"Judge"** (top): A courtroom scene where a child asks an elderly judge to "put on the whiskers and get it over with—I want to go to bed!" The joke mocks judicial formality and tedious legal proceedings, suggesting even children find court rituals absurdly time-consuming. **"Round Robin"** (right): A satirical summary of literary adaptation chaos, where multiple authors and creators sued each other over plagiarism rights to the same work—a critique of 1920s-30s intellectual property disputes and the cutthroat entertainment industry. **"Complaint"** (bottom): Critiques self-important people who boast about deep breathing exercises, and college graduates who fall asleep—poking fun at pretension and lazy youth. The cartoons target legal pomposity, creative theft, and social affectation.
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JUDGE Sensible Gifts vart Botte of red ink, Wolf trap to be placed in front of door, Cook book containing cake recipes that do not require ¢ gys, butter or cream, Set of darning needles and colored threads. Beware-of-the-Dog” signs to scare off bill collectors. Provision Sir Hubert Wilkins says a trip to the moon is entirely possible, but would cost $200,000,000, Well, it might be worth it—if we could per- suade the right people to take it. Exchanging husbands or wives for new ones is like exchanging old cars. Before you can get a new one you've got to find out what you can get on the old one. * “TL wish the old man would put on the whiskers and get it i over with—I want to go to bed!” } Round Robin A" tier Apren wrote a novel. Benjamin Beck dramatized it. Charles Cook made a photoplay of the drama. Dorothy Dale novelized the picture. Edward Entz dramatized the nov clization. Frederick Flome made picture the dramat George lifry wrote a short story from the picture. Helen Hooker made a radio sketch from the short story. Arthur Appel “heard the radio sketch and wrote a novel. a talking ation. n. Hifry sued Charles Cook Arthur Appel sued Benjamin Beck And all the suits were thrown out of court. Complaint One trouble with deep-breathing ex- ercises is that people who take them use the extra breath to tell about it. Then again, there's the young col- lege graduate who started at the bot- “Hey, buddy—gimme a hand down offa this roof —zwill ya?” tom and fell asleep. 4 comicbooks.com