Judge, 1936-02 · page 7 of 36
Judge — February 1936 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine, Page 5 **Top Cartoon ("Whatta you mean?—Children half fare!"):** A man on a ladder posts a sign advertising "Honeymoon Special to Niagara Falls—Children Half Fare." He's being confronted by what appears to be an angry ticket agent or inspector. The joke satirizes absurd travel advertising—offering reduced fares for children on honeymoon trips is nonsensical, since newlyweds typically travel alone. The humor targets both misleading promotional language and the confusion it creates. **Lower Section:** Contains short humor items ("Judge" column) about everyday absurdities: a government skating rink project in Chicago, family dynamics, and administrative incompetence (a broker visiting a refrigerator company to have his blonde "defrosted"). **Bottom Cartoon:** Shows theater-goers asking someone to save peanuts for a "machine gun scene"—satirizing both audience behavior during films and the violence depicted in contemporary movies.
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Seeing’s Believing T WON'T be long now before we have television in every home, and when that happens you can call your doctor and all he'll have to do is pick up the receiver and tell you to stick out your tongue. The danger, though, is phoning SPECIAL your wife-and telling her: you've been detained at ‘the offic To she'll say all right, but you'd better brush that powder off NIAGARA your coat lapel. And getting a wrong number is apt to be Faus very embarrassing. Something like this: “Whoops! — cuse me lady! I guess I got the wrong number—er, I'll just look the other way until you hang up.” It’s All O.K. AIT a minute, fellows, and I'll see if I can go out with you tonight, It'll be okay with the wife all rig but [ always like to call home first just to make sure. Hello dear. Listen, ing, some of the fellows here at the office are going ave a little party tonight and | wonder if you want me to—” “Yes, Walter, [ want you to try and go with them. I want you to try and stay out real late, and I want you to do some drinking, too. I want you to try and have a lot of fun. 1 think you ought to try and take in the night clubs, and 1 want you to try and get a couple of girls to go along, too. Ye Walter, L want to see you JUST TRY IT!” “Whatta you mean?—Children half fare!” Appropriate S OGAN for a race Kk: Debt in the aite mn And now there's talk a new gov- ernment project to build the world's largest: skating rink in Chicago. The plans aren't completed but we under- stand it will seat over ten thousand skaters. No wonder large families are out of date: it is hard enou to read through the comic section of the Sunday paper for just one child. Simple Celia says her brother is the pride of the family and has all kinds of talent. She says the only reason they can’t persuade him to go on an amateur hour is that he’s heard a rumor lots of people get jobs that way. The atlas used by the L F tions includes Italy and Africa all right, but the map of Asia seems to have been torn out somehow. Then, of course, there’s the broker who went down to the refrigerator com- pany to have his blonde defrosted. “Would you mind saving those peanuts for the machine gun scene: 5 comicbooks.com