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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (July 1937) This page contains three separate pieces of satirical content: 1. **Top illustration**: Shows what appears to be a theatrical or musical performance scene with the caption "Bishop, you were right—this show is positively immoral!" The satire likely mocks either censorious religious figures or heated cultural debates about entertainment standards in the 1930s. 2. **Bottom illustration**: Depicts a rescue scene with the caption "Thank God—rescued at last!" The context is unclear from the image alone, though it may reference a contemporary news event or satirize sensationalized rescue narratives. 3. **Text sections**: Include humorous anecdotes about manna identification, piano player disposal tips, and the publication history of "Gone with the Wind." These mock pseudoscientific claims and publishing industry tribulations of the era. The overall tone is light satirical humor rather than hard political commentary.
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‘HE book says: “And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground: “And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.” As every schoolboy knows, we have rogressed mightily since those days. vets ago biblical scholars decided that this small round thing, this manna, was the sweet secretion of the aphid, or plant louse. And now a professor in Kansas has issued instructions to motorists, tell- ing them how to wash the secretions of plant lice off their cars. Amen. AN enterprising gentleman advises that he has discovered a way to get rid of old piano player rolls left over from spring house-cleaning. After they. have been properly yellowed by age, he cuts them up into appropriate shapes and serves them for swiss-cheese in sandwiches at cocktail parties. By the time it is advisable to offer something in the way of solid nourishment, he finds, guests are not too particular and several have told him that his sandwiches are delightful. IDE note on civilization, to be filed in the It Had To Happen Sooner Or Later Department: In Los Angeles, Ben M. Lefner filed suit for divorce from his wife, Margaret Lefner, declaring his spouse “positively refused to live anywhere except in an auto trailer.” HUMANS are better than animals be- > cause they have complicated mecha- nisms for thinking so. FANTASTIC stories of the way Gone With the Wind was discovered re- call the saga of one of America’s best sellers of all tim¢, David Harum. How David Harum came to be writ. ten and how many stuffy pabtsnee editors refused it before Ripley Hitch. cock, of Appleton’s accepted it, and how they felt afterwards and how near the manuscript came to being made into ashes instead of being coined into roy- alties, is a story which hasn't been heard much outside of Onondaga County. Ed Westcott, the author, was a small city aristocrat, but through his father, the dentist, he knew all the boys who had a hand in the good old Cardiff Giant busi- ness, and many of those whose outdoor sport was the hoss-trot and whose chew. ing tobacco money was earned by swap. ping horses. So when Ed Westcott’s doctor told him he had consumption and would have to quit the brokerage business and sing- ing in the choir and see if by taking it July 1937 "Thank God—rescued at last!” comicbooks.com