Judge, 1932-01-02 · page 13 of 36
Judge — January 2, 1932 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: **"Broadcast"**: A joke about radio sports commentary. A announcer (Gitter Gabb) provides breathless play-by-play coverage of what he's describing as boxing, but it's actually the opera "Aida" being performed. The humor lies in treating highbrow opera with the sensationalism of lowbrow sports broadcasting—a commentary on how radio was democratizing culture and the absurdity of applying sports-announcer hyperbole to classical music. **"Wire" (cartoon)**: A businessman's marital troubles are interrupted by an acrobat crashing through his car window. The caption suggests this distraction might relieve his worries about work and home life—satirizing how people seek escape from daily anxieties. **"Tips for Taps"**: Humorous advice about pickle jars with stuck lids, suggesting increasingly absurd solutions (tapping, calling a plumber, ordering new pickles). It's gentle domestic humor about everyday frustrations. **"Greetings"**: A brief political jab at the 1928 presidential race between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith, suggesting their mutual dislike.
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Broadcast I": a great show, folks. Listen— now they're circling around cach other out there in the middle. Rh. dames leads with his left, but the Sthiopian ducks and they go into a clinch. They wrestle! They break! Now they're coming out of it, and the Ethiopian is hanging on. Oh! Rha- dames is down! He slips to one knee. Now he’s got an arm under the Ethi- opian’s shoulders and they go into Fuggiam Gli Adori— Ladies and gentlemen, you are lis- tening to your favorite sports an- nouncer, Gifter Gabb, following for you the third act of the opera “Aida” being broadcast over tion WH that other noise you hear is the aria, Fuggiam Gli Adori, now being sung. —Cromwett MacKecunie Wire—IWell, that'll take his mind off his business worries, Tips for Taps I": nice to know that, no matter what happens, you'll always have a quart jar of dill pickles to fall back on. It’s a comfortable f - Come rain, come snow—there vays be a quart jar of dill pick t my house. Come sleet, come hail — we ¢ our quart jar of pickles. Come Santa Claus, come wolf—we can't get the top off of our jar of dill pi The directions p: of the jar read sharply around the outer edge and unscrew.” Well, try and do it. This jar of dill pickles has been around here for weeks. We are thinking of tying a pink ribbon about its neck and using it as a doorstop. We tapped and tried and tapped and tried and tried and tapped and tricd. A woodpecker couldn't have tapped more than we tapped. A tap dancer would have fallen exhausted. All our taps merely served as a warn- ing to the jar that we were going to try. Here are the directions that should be printed on all such dill pickle jar tops: “To remove, ’ round outer edge; tap again a - Call husband and have him tap; call a plumber and have him bring a pipe wrench; call the delicatessen and tell them to send up some loose dill pickles.” —Tom-Sias Greetings And this year, if Hoover sends Al Smith a New Year's card it will prob- ably say, “Wish you were here.” comicbooks.com