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Judge — February 6, 1932 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page from *Judge* magazine features the column "All I Know Is What I Read," which profiles Hollywood personalities' reading habits and character traits. The text describes figures like Robert Montgomery, Constance Bennett, Charles Farrell, and George Arliss—major film stars of the era. The two cartoons illustrate humorous anecdotes: one shows a man at his doorway with the caption "You go tend to your door—them windows is my business," while another depicts someone with a ship, captioned "I bought it one day when I was drunk!" The satire gently pokes fun at celebrities' personalities and quirks through witty observations about their reading preferences and lifestyle choices, typical of *Judge's* celebrity gossip and humor format during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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All I Know Is What I Read R rt Montoomeny is just a great big boy at heart. Tle loves to discuss Shakespeare, despises _bluc- berry jam, but just dotes on N spirituals. Finished with the day's work at the studio, he hies himself home to spade the broccoli pateh in his garden, The patch is one of his major prides. He would not trade it for Kay Francis’ row of Brussels sprouts, nor would he consider George Bancroft’s six thousand acres of wild peas as a fair exchange for it. Constance Bennett is only a little girl at heart. Her favorite author is Dickens. Her favoeite color is vio- let. Another favorite f hers is purple. When she is extra gay she will show preference for pur- iolet. When she is feeling blue just wants blue things around. favorite expression is “Well, whadd'ye know!” or “Ah! when she is pleasantly surprised. When she is unpleasantly surprised she says noth ing, but there is that look in her eves. She has no favorite cusswords. Just a great big boy at heart is Charles Farrell. He hardly ever at- tends any Hollywood parties. He likes to get into his dressing light a bowler pipe, sit before an open dread and read and read. When the book in his hands is Sh speare vou can be sure it’s Aristotle or Eugene O'Neill. He loves to watch the sunset and the sunrise. He hates women, but of course he loves ro Lown, “I bought it one day JUDGE “You go tend to your door—them windows is my business.” hen I was drunk!” his wife, Virginia Valli, who hates men, but of course loves her husband. Billie Dove is just little girl at cart. Although her home in Beverly s covers an area of forty-ei re miles, has twelve hundred and y-two rooms and two hundred and fifty bathrooms, she cherishes a tiny cight-by-ten room in the base ment, where she spends most of her leisure ing house. ‘Thelma ‘Todd, V .ightner, Joan Blondell and Ruth Chatterton often come over for the afternoon and have a perfectly ducky time. They dress in grown-up clothes and just to watch the serious expressions on their as they imie their elders is to touch your rart-strings and make you want to ugh and ery. George Arliss is just a great big t heart. When he isn’t reading atching the sunset or the sunrise he is either reading or watching the sunrise or sunset. —Artiurn Erenserc - comicbooks.com