Judge, 1937-12 · page 11 of 39
Judge — December 1937 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine, December 1937: Analysis **"Alibi"** (left column): A comedic sequence satirizing college bureaucracy. Student George Cummerbund Jr. requests early Christmas leave, claiming family illness. The Dean denies it without verification. George then resubmits with a telegram from his father ("STOP NONSENSE COME STRAIGHT HOME MOTHER WORRIED DAD"), and the Dean immediately grants it. The joke: the "alibi" works—the father's worried wire serves as sufficient proof, despite being vague about actual illness. **"Xmas Rush"** (right): Two separate humor pieces about Christmas shopping chaos. The main piece (by Scott Brown) features a verbose woman complaining to a department store about crowded holiday sales and mysteriously receiving a girdle with her stockings. A side gag notes that one store economizes by having the credit manager also play Santa Claus, satirizing Depression-era cost-cutting. **The cartoon** depicts carolers or holiday figures, with the caption joking about toasting marshmallows over "peace treaties"—likely referencing 1937's deteriorating international situation as WWII approached.
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Alibi George Cummerbund Jr. Tau Tau House Newburg, Conn. CAN YOU GET AWAY TWO DAYS EARLY COUNTING ON YOU FOR DIN- NER AND TWO DANCES LOVE MYRTLE Myrtle Whortle Philadelphia, Pa. CAN TRY WILL LET YOU KNOW THIS WEEK LOVE GEORGE NEWBURG UNIVERSITY PETITION TO THE FACULTY George Cummerbund Jr. respectfully petitions the faculty that he be allowed to leave the University two days early for Christmas vacation at his father’s urgent request because of illness in the family. OFFICE OF THE DEAN To: George Cummerbund Jr. The faculty regrets that it cannot grant you two extra days of Christmas vacation without verification of your father’s request. The Dean George Cummerbund Philadelphia, Pa. CHRISTMAS VACATION STARTS SOON SHALL _I COME HOME BY WAY OF CHICAGO GEORGE NEWBURG UNIVERSITY PETITION TO THE FACULTY George Cummerbund Jr. respectfully petitions the Faculty that the Faculty reconsider his request for two extra days of Christmas vacation on the strength of the attached wire: George Cummerbund Jr. Tau Tau House Newburg, Conn. STOP_ NONSENSE COME STRAIGHT HOME MOTHER WORRIED DAD OFFICE OF THE DEAN To: George Cummerbund Jr. Request for two extra days of Christ. mas vacation granted. The Dean Myrtle Whortle Philadelphia, Pa, IN THE BAG LOVE GEORGE December 1937 XMAS s¢ ELLO—hello—Bloggs Depart- ment store? Hello, give me the adjustment desk please. Hello, adjust- ment desk. This is Mrs. Henry Jones at nineteen Western avenue. Yes that’s right. I was just in the store this after- noon and was down in the basement where you are having the holiday bar- gain sale, There was a terrible jam there. You couldn't see what you were doing. No, no, I didn’t get hurt. What I'm trying to say is that I was at the counter where the stocking sale was going on, and there was an awful crowd there. No, I didn’t have my purse snatched. I bought a pair of hose. No, I'm not making any complaint about RUSH your merchandise. There was such a crowd there I couldn't see what I was doing—I finally managed to get hold of a pair of hose—after a terrible struggle. Now, I either want my money back or another pair of stockings, new ones. But you don’t understand. When I got them home there was a girdle attached to them.” —Scotr Brown. UR UNCLE HERBERT says that a man is getting old when he thinks mistletoe may give him hay fever. And one big department store is practicing a little economy by having the credit manager double as Santa Claus. "Come on over, Alexander, we're going to toast marshmallows over some peace treaties!” comicbooks.com