Judge, 1938-03 · page 4 of 52
Judge — March 1938 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire. The left side features two Union Pacific resort advertisements promoting Sun Valley, Idaho—"The New Challenger Inn" and "Sun Valley Lodge"—emphasizing affordable winter vacations with skiing, skiing, and amenities. The right side contains "Fair Forecast," a gossip column about the 1939 New York World's Fair. Items include: a collapsed educational exhibit, the first baby born on Fair grounds (named Grover Flushing Nussbaum), train delays, and criticism of dancer Sally LaVerne's performance as "obscene and indecent." The column notes the Fair's deficit and includes a poem, "The Ray," by Brian Boru. The content reflects mid-Depression Era promotional material and celebrity coverage rather than political commentary.
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=a myTable Callonger im E NOW-—enjoy a Sun Valley vacation at costs . surprisingly low. Moderate rates for rooms... ; popular priced meals. There are shops, a theater, restaurants, night club, skating rink, warm water open-air swimming pool . complete mountain village, with accommo- dations for 400. Sun Vly fay Superb comforts, service, food. A top-flight French chef in charge of the kitchen. Rooms single, double or en suite. Accommodations for 250 at reasonable rates. American plan. Skiing under perfect conditions! — deep, . long, timber-free slopes -a brilliant, summer-warm sun. Toboggan- ing, dog sledging, skating, sleigh rides in the moonlight, swimming in the famous, glass-sheltered, open-air pools. “powder” snow. . Only Union Pacific Serves For reservations and information ask Union Pacific representatives in principal cities or write or wire General Manager Union PacificR.R. SERVES ALL THE WEST FAIR FORECAST (Items you may confidently expect to read in your paper at various times with. in the next two years) A New York World’s Fair education. al exhibit collapsed yesterday afternoon throwing fourteen persons out of work. Mayor LaGuardia dashed to the scene in a police car and organized relief workers. Mrs. Hyman Nussbaum, 2570 Grand Concourse, Bronx, gave birth this morn. ing to the first baby to be born on the New York World's Fair grounds. The 11-pound boy will be named Grover Flushing Nussbaum. More than four hundred Long Island Railroad passengers, bound for the Fair, were delayed for twenty-five minutes yesterday morning when their train was halted by a slight drizzle. Decency League officials are vigorous. ly attacking the performance of Sally LaVerne, marble dancer at the New York World's Fair, branding it “ob. scene and indecent.” Meanwhile, Miss LaVerne continues to attract six times as many customers as her nearest rival, the Romance of Book Binding exhibit. John K. Sullivan, of Dobbs Ferry, was fined $10 yesterday for obliterating the line “World's Fair 1944” on his 1939 license plates. The Mularkey sisters, Joan and Irene, of Centerville, Ohio, winners of a news. paper contest for the best letter on “Why I Want to See the New York World's Fair,” prepared today to return home after spending a week on the Flushing meadows. “It was thrilling,” they told reporters. Fire broke out in the Paris Nights ex- hibit yesterday but was quickly extin- guished before any damage had been done. Mayor LaGuardia rushed to the scene on a Moto-Scoot. “I guess this exhibit is too hot,” he observed. “Maybe they'd better call it Berlin Nights.” The Nazi press denounced the Mayor in no uncertain terms. Officials of the New York World's Fair announced late last night that the Fair deficit to date is $978,263. —G. W. The Ray I've lived today. A baby smiled at me. I plunged my soul in deep despair; Now I laugh at fear and banish care I've looked and found that God was there— A baby smiled at me. —Brian Boru. ~ comicbooks.com