Judge, 1934-07 · page 9 of 36
Judge — July 1934 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge's Camera Contest Explanation This is a satirical page featuring four cartoon vignettes mocking various 1920s-era figures and situations: 1. **The Chalk Device**: Satirizes people seeking relief from hot weather through an absurd invention that produces an unpleasant noise instead. 2. **Timothy O'Gosh**: Caricatures a Broadway bartender cheating customers by measuring out inadequate portions of liquor—likely commenting on Prohibition-era speakeasies and dishonest practices. 3. **Edward Dandelion**: Mocks a lottery winner who must use elaborate disguises to avoid people asking him for money. 4. **Police Captain Humph**: Shows a rigid authority figure enjoying entertainment about a corrupt politician's arrest—satirizing either his hypocrisy or naive faith in justice. 5. **Rollo Hoop**: Parodies a movie star so safety-conscious he uses a stunt double even for bathing, mocking Hollywood's excess and paranoia. The page's humor relies on exaggeration and social commentary about prohibition, wealth, corruption, and celebrity culture.
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Judge’s Camera Contest enlightening camera study of Timothy O'’Gosh, bartend- er at a famous Broadway hot- spot, measuring out an eighty- five-cent highball. OT weather sufferers will exult at the above in- vention which causes a piece of chalk to screech olently on a portable blackboard, thereby sending cold DWARD Dandelion, recent holder of shivers up and down the operator's spine. lucky sweepstake ticket, illustrates the only method he has found of getting to and from his office without being stopped at least twenty-two es and advised what to do with his money SUALLY_ reserved and__ businesslike, AVING heard that most household accidents occur in the Police Captain Humph is shown here bathtub, Rollo Hoop, movie star, now uses his double on having a good laugh for himself over a de- Saturday nights as well as on other dangerous occasions. tective story which describes the arrest and conviction of a big politician, comicbooks.com