Judge, 1935-08 · page 7 of 36
Judge — August 1935 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 5 **Top Cartoon ("What Price Love?"):** A woman has left her husband, causing him distress. The poem by Ethel Jacobson suggests a husband's frustration with his wife's infidelity and her subsequent demands—likely for alimony or settlement. The cartoon shows a man at a doctor's office receiving the news that his wife left him, while he ruefully discusses finances. The satire targets both the wife's apparent indiscretion and contemporary divorce proceedings that financially disadvantaged men. **Bottom Section ("Boomerang"):** This anecdote describes Herman, an Indian performer at a radio station (WPDO) who worked in various entertainment capacities—from Shakespearean productions to soap powder advertisements. The humor stems from his repeated career boomerangs: each ambitious attempt (steam engine imitation, etc.) failed, always returning him to lesser positions, like "thinking he was Napoleon." The satire mocks both the entertainment industry's fickleness and performers' delusions of grandeur.
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Judge What Price Love? SHE stole my man: She made him roam; She busted up My happy home; She whistled—and He up and went. Imagine my Embarrassment ! I can't conceal My great chagrin That IT am Out, While she is In, But [ll get even— Won't I just— With that there Low-life dame, Or bust. Law thoughtfully Provides redress For wives whom Hussies thus distress: To sue them for The value of Our misappro- Priated love. oo And soon her r. Will be intense. I'm bringing suit For thirty cents! “You can go ahead with the —Erurt Jaconson. bridge, Doc. I just got a loan from the PWA!” Boomerang a EST DAY Herman was an Indian over at Station WPDQ. You know, war-whooping on the Vanishing Americans series for the Imperial Apricot Company “Izzat so? Why, I thought Herman was King Louis with the French Pastry Players.” “Not since last week. He quit them to take a Wednesday program as a burgomaster on the Beer Garden operettas.” “Herman always was a clever chap. When I first knew him he was only a cowboy on the Bubblo-Water afternoon roundups.” “Yeah, [ know. He got his big chance imitating a stea engine with that Pages of Progress outfit. Remember it ‘Sure, two or three years ago, wasn’t it? Seems to me he was a chocolate soldier in the Magic Doll House, too, wasn't he? For a while. But Herman wasn’t the man to stand still. Right after that he grabbed a job as the Second Guardsman in the Shakespearean Selections. Then he made the cc to-coast networks as Klondike Dan for Northern I Powder. Yep, it sure is too bad about poor old He! é _ ; “Why, Great Scot, man, what's happened to him Something’s wrong here, men. Yesterday there “Well, last night they came and took him away. Yor were only four of us!” he got to thinking he was Napoleon.” comicbooks.com