Judge, 1934-12 · page 3 of 37
Judge — December 1934 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. The left column contains a "BOOKS" section with brief reviews of works by Stanley Walker and Gene Fowler—both journalists and writers of the era. The reviews discuss their literary merit and writing style in a straightforward manner. The bulk of the page features cruise advertisements from the Swedish American Line, promoting luxury voyages to the West Indies, South America, and Scandinavia. These ads emphasize the ships' elegance, amenities, and itineraries. There is **no political cartoon or satire evident** on this page. It appears to be a standard magazine layout mixing book reviews with commercial advertising, typical of Judge magazine's format during this period.
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BOOKS TANLEY WALKER for years has worked hard at being the editor of the realistic, life-is-literal school of fiction and yet would be the first to deny it. His chief claim to fame is that he knows a lot of critics who invariably over-praise his usually competent books ; occasionally is responsible for an enter- taining news feature on the radically Tory pages of the Herald Tribune; and that he offers some of the lousiest wages for an honest man’s reportorial work this side of the Chinese Coolie Labor Camps. His “City Editor,” a new book of headline anecdote, might be termed the Hardberled Romance of the City Room; Newsie Chit Chat; Printer’s Ink Shop Talk; or the Inside Dope on the Wolf-Like Heart of a Great City Room Editor. It is the story of a city editor created by Ben Hecht. It has the facts and is neither likeable nor non-likeable. It gallops along like the activities of the city room itself. An authentic pic- ture of the sort of journalistic attitude that has gone out with rugged individ- ualism, needle beer, and reporters with hollow legs. ENE FOWLER is another city editor who has tried to go straight and become a fullgrown writer. But it turns out a task to wash printer’s ink from your blood. In this case it is the Hearstian color of ink which makes it all the harder. Try as Mr. Fowler may he cannot get over his past and his writing becomes a thing of scareheads right from the bloody murder off the front page of the Evening Journal. Now don’t think we're trying to get even with Mr. Fowler because he worked for Hearst. We're not. We admire him. We think he has the best news sense of any living newspaperman. He has the dramatic instinct of a he- man Eugene O'Neill. But his dye has been cast in yellow journalism. He is lithe like an axe murder. Mr. Fowler's newest modern biog is of Mack Sennett and is named “Father Goose.” It contains the usual Fowler- ization: overwriting in gilt. He has hung more phrases on the poor illiterate body of the Custard King than Peggy yee could hang diamonds on her sa- s for a public mecting with the Prince of Wales. The whole thing could stand a blue pencil as thick as a policeman’s head. But who is to blue pencil a former editor? Also, Mr. Fowler has made his subject a rather dull Irish boilermaker. Was that your purpose, Genesy boy? F THE writing in “Father Goose” is | too rich for the blood, the writing in “Lust For Life” is too thin and anae- mic. Somewhere between would have been the correct way to write of Vin- (Page 23, please) 6 PLEASURE CRUISES WEST INDIES m0 SOUTH AMERICA IN THE GLEAMING WHITE MOTORLINER “KUNGSHOLM" SAILING FROM NEW YORK DECEMBER 21, 1S DAYS... FROM $177.50 ; La Guaira, Venezuela; Puerto Panama; Kingston, Jamaica. JANUARY 9, 4 p.m. FEBRUARY 20, 4 p.m. 18 DAYS... FROM $210 JANUARY 30, 4 p.m. MARCH 13, 4 p.m. . Windward Islands; Puerto ; La Guaira, Venezuela; » Jamaica; 1; Colon, Panama; Port-au-Prince, APRIL 3, 0.01 a.m.... 12 DAYS... FROM $145 Colon, Panama; Kingston, Jamaica Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Cartagena, Colombia ; Membership Limited. No Passports. Perfect itineraries and a perfect ship ‘midst the colorful, nmer this Winter n playgrounds of Keep a rendezvous with smaller ports as well as the famed cosm have labelled the K one of the orts the artistry the ship's designers in m: de luxe hotel at every port-of GRAND AND GAY VACATION CRUISES FROM NEW YORK KUNGSHOLM ECORATION DAY CRUISE TO BERMUDA KUNGSHOLM EASTER CRUISE U - BERMUDA These are Ideal Cruises with Sports—Swimming F food and service—Membership limit the advantages of a trans-Atlan uisite Lounges and Px N Dancing Marvelous FASCINATING VIKING CRUISES, $.S. DROTTNINGHOLM 1935, From New York M. S. KUNGSHOLM M. S. GRIPSHOLM |, North Cape, Nor- . Russia, Finland, Den- © JUNE 29... 43 Days Limited Membership—Moderate Rates tour in Sweden, the brilliant gateway to northern Europe. ¢ liners of the Swedish American Line, with the ultimate mark, Russia, Sweden JUNE 12... 33 Days JULY 26. . 33 Days Begin your next Europ Travel via the famous Vi in service, cuisine and appointments. For full particulars, your own Travel Agent or the SWEDISH AMERICAN LINE 21 State Street, New York. Offices in all principal cities Den- comicbooks.com