Judge, 1935-06 · page 9 of 37
Judge — June 1935 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge's Camera Contest - Page Analysis This page presents four humorous photographs submitted to *Judge* magazine's photo contest. Each caption provides satirical commentary: 1. **Top left**: "Intensely dramatic" burning of the East Hampton mansion of Gerald Swimm, captioned as occurring during the upcoming weekend season—satirizing dramatic social-season events. 2. **Top right**: A heavyset man labeled "Track 17," with text mocking a new literary trend where characters pinch themselves to verify wakefulness—likely referencing surrealism or experimental fiction. 3. **Bottom left**: The Baby-No-Paw-Down Company's "infant walker," satirizing advertising claims about product delivery deadlines before New Year's. 4. **Bottom right**: A Hollywood Hot Dog Company executive photograph capturing a "stenographer from eating the scale model" of their new hot dog stand—mocking corporate mishaps and product photography. The humor derives from absurd scenarios presented as genuine news photography.
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Judge’s Camera Contest NTENSELY dramatic is this photo of the burning of the East Hampton mansion of Gerald Swimm (foreground) to whom it has just occurred that the weekend season is about to begin. COMPLETELY new _ literary trend is foreseen in the latest novel of Claude Broad, right, one of whose characters pinches himself to see if he is awake and finds that he is not. HE Baby-No-Faw-Down Company, Inc., sends in the above snapshot of its new model “infant walker,” and remarks that we had better get our orders in early if we want delivery before next New Year's Eve. H's great friendship and loy- alty to the L.S.U. football team have now dropped their rewards in the lap of Huey Long, who was snapped as he arrived in New York recently on his way another house-party at Sands Point. From Beverly Hills comes this photograph taken in the executive offices of the Hollywood Hot Dog Company showing the exciting moment that took place when a vice president, in the nick of time, prevented a stenographer from eating the scale model of their newest hot dog stand and gas station. comicbooks.com