Judge, 1936-10 · page 9 of 36
Judge — October 1936 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Page 7 This page contains two separate satirical pieces: **"Flaw"** (top): A cartoon mocking women's unrealistic expectations in marriage. A wife threatens to withhold praise if her husband doesn't stop asking questions while shaving—a domestic complaint about male behavior. **"I Learn from the Movies"** (bottom): A humorous essay satirizing Hollywood film conventions—characters waving their left hands in circles to mime telephone motion, heroes and heroines always wealthy, spies identified as Countesses, automobiles starting with a "smart clicking sound," etc. The accompanying cartoon shows an employment agency scene. The overall page mocks both domestic gender relations and the absurd tropes audiences absorbed from cinema during this era. Both pieces use exaggeration to critique real social observations about marriage and popular entertainment's unrealistic portrayals of modern life.
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Judge Flaw HERE was a time, my dear, when T Would shout your praises to the sky, But I no longer feel like raving— You twill ask questions when I'm shaving The nations of Europe have their owt method of bringing about peace. They ex tend their sympathies to the under dog and their munitions to the one on top. ‘The postal department is cooperating in the Safe-Driving campaigns, although. all along the public has been aware it pays to drive carefully in the vicinity of mail trucks. And occasionally we like to look back at , the good old days, when a woman would wrap | rei around the hitching post, in of the whole wagon Nas om dol A Connecticut tearoom propric closed shop on inheriting half a mil i Uniortunately a way cannot be found 16 give every tearoom proprietor half a mil- lion dollars. De iption: He 1s the kind of a guy who would sell you the shirt off his back Our local rugged individual has refused te apply for an old age pension, He is putting his faith in bank night at the movie house “What if 1 did flunk Algebra? P?'m not going to feed my husband any Vxwi+y> L? | ! hearn from the Movies rupee | . k VERY character in every movie by AGENCY Wavir s left hand backwa din a circular motion can place it on a tele- k iD it The characters i vall films are either or fat broke and hun; oO The selves in y or millionaires. roand her law es where waiting a certain number of days before ts marrying ie Any woman over forty referred to as iS , Countess is a dangerous spy. a Nobody in pictures ever looks in a phone book finding the mimber : oO ice any member of s the cast can ¢ a booth and ce te Montgomery City 5 A unique sixth sense inherit with all actors enables them Irive like fury to the warden fice ina strange city thody connected with the plot need ait for the next elevator, prod ere : dentials, or pay for C.O.D, pac Automobiles start at a touch, and upon ‘4 stopping, the pulled-up cmergeney brake emits a smart clicking sound. “T want to take a look at him in the daylight!” 7 comicbooks.com