Judge, 1935-09 · page 13 of 36
Judge — September 1935 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Judge's Camera Contest This page showcases humorous photographs submitted to Judge magazine's contest, with satirical captions. The top cartoon celebrates the New York Central Railroad's coup in hiring Asa Muana, described as a Hindu scholar who announces train schedules in Sanskrit—a joke about the railroad's pretentious modernization efforts. Below, two cartoons mock contemporary fashion and news. One ridicules men wearing white linen suits repeatedly without laundering, suggesting excessive vanity and poor hygiene. The final image, taken with a telephoto lens, depicts a Mickey Mouse balloon floating above a crashed military aircraft, satirizing the Army's stratosphere altitude record being beaten by a toy balloon—mocking military incompetence and the absurdity of losing to something so trivial. The overall tone is lighthearted social commentary on fashion, transportation, and national pride.
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Judge’s Camera Contest Ie hew PALTZ | [RAtLowAy AND | PULLMAN I RULY a photographic triump! flashlight picture of Merchant. T. who is shown as he proudly surveys the newly ] HE New York Central has scored another coup in printed cards announcing an “Autumn sale to a | the fi f 1i] supremacy by obtaining the exclusive few select customers betore the advertisements ] Muwana, Hindu scholar, who is to an- appear in the newspapers. departures and arrivals in early Sanskrit. ALMOST anyone with a camera these days can get a 'AKEN with a powerful telephoto lens, the accom- picture like the one above showing the very odd panying shot records the precise moment at which posture of current wearers of white linen suits, who are the latest stratosphere flight of the Army was sham trying to make them last out the season without one more facedly called off after the new altitude record had t trip to the laundry. beaten by a Mickey Mouse balloon, comicbooks.com