Judge, 1933-01 · page 4 of 36
Judge — January 1933 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content features two hotel advertisements: 1. **The Waldorf-Astoria** (top): A luxury hotel ad emphasizing its prestigious location, cuisine, and service on Park Avenue. 2. **Hotel Croydon** (bottom): A competing hotel advertising affordability and convenience for visitors to New York, with rates from $4 daily. The right column contains unrelated celebrity quotes under "YOU'RE TELLING US?"—brief witticisms attributed to figures like Norman Thomas and William Allen White, a common magazine feature of the era. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. The content reflects 1920s-30s New York commercial culture and Judge magazine's mix of advertising revenue with celebrity commentary rather than satirical commentary.
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What makes the Waldorf? Its size «its prestige?..its perfect appointments?..its famous cuisine? Yes, but more impor- tant is that amazing faculty for catering to the individual...to you...accomplished by the remarkable service establishment. THE WALDORF <ASTORIA PARK AVENUE «+ 49TH TO SOTH STS > NEW YORK + Coming to New York? Then consider the 1,000 room Hotel Croydon as an excellent place to live transiently or permanently. It offers these advantages: Splendid location a few steps from Central Park, Fifth Ave- nue, Metropolitan Museum, busses, subways, hospitals, fine schools, churches and only 15 minutes shopping theatrical districts. from and Apartments of one to eight rooms, furnished or unfurnished by day, month or year from $4 daily, $100 monthly. Sun roof and children’s play- room (with attendants) free for use of guests. Beautiful restau- rant and private dining rooms. Booklet J] on request Gotel Croydon 12 EAST 86th STREET NEW YORK BUtterfield 8-4000 UNDER DIRECTION OF WILBUR T. EMERSON YOURE TELLING US? 667T’s a crazy world we're living in.” —Norman Thomas. “Everything will be all right in a few weeks, months or years.” Georges Barreres. “I can always write quickly and easily if I have nothing to say.” William Allen White. “There is a certain pleasure and action in the handling of cer- tificates of stocks and bonds.”—Rev Dr. Irving H. Berg. “Stay aw sell now. Greenspan. y from that shellac they Magistrate Benjamin “We are in the midst of a long drawn-out depression.”—Robert P. Lamont. “Many people do not own either stocks or bonds.”—Gene Tunney. “You may not realize it, but I am a lady.”—Mae Murray. “Final peace may come rather quickly, or it may come slowly.”— Carrie Chapman Catt. “I don’t know of any one in Wall street for his health.”—William C. Brush. are really no place “There are, I am afraid, deliber- ate lawbreakers.”—Mrs. James M. Doran. “The American woman rarely knows what she wants.”—Hendrik W. Van Loon. “To drop the cosmical constant would knock the bottom out of space.”—Sir Arthur Eddington. “T’'ve got to use a lot of words to tell my story.”—Theodore Dreiser. “Prosperity is H. W. Peabody. desirable.”—Mrs. “If we hadn’t been preaching pa- triotism for three years, nobody knows what might have happened.” —Sol Bloom. “Optimism has been a little over- done in the United States.”—Charles M. Schwab. “Some Americans lack political in- formation.”—Arthur Brisbane. —W. E. FARBSTEIN. comicbooks.com