Judge, 1938-08 · page 10 of 36
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# "Around and About with Judge Jr." - Pet Peeves Column This page features a humorous column collecting "pet peeves"—minor annoyances—from famous entertainers and writers of the era (likely 1930s-40s based on references). The cartoon depicts a social scene where a woman is warned that a man at another table is trying to get her attention, playing on the awkwardness of being noticed. The celebrity quotes mock everyday irritations: Walter Winchell complains about sources who demand secrecy then claim leaks; Fred Allen gripes about radio industry chaos and squeaky shoes; Billy Rose resents the 24-hour day; Rabbi Stephen Wise criticizes willful ignorance. Later contributors mention telephone bores, bill-paying, Nazis, train conversationalists, and magazine contributors working without pay. The final quote from Franklin P. Adams is self-aware humor—he jokes about complaining that magazines ask for unpaid contributions while *himself* contributing to this magazine unpaid, creating a witty recursive joke about the very medium publishing his complaint.
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AROUND and ABOUT | HAT with the dog days of August practically staring him in the face, Junior's collar is wilted and his patience is short. The thing reached its height last week. It was on the train; a child that could bawl in three falsetto keys and seventeen Russian dialects sent Junior off to the comparative quiet of the washroom, which was, of course, locked. A little argument with the con- ductor got him in and he set to work on a thorough grime-removal project. Eyes soapy, he groped for a paper towel —well, why go on? Right then and there Junior put the bee on his friends for their Pet Peeves, some of which are here presented for the benefit of fellow sufferers. “My pet peeve: People who ask you with Judge Jr. not to ‘print it yet’—that they will tell you when—and then when you see it published elsewhere, they say: ‘I can't understand how it leaked out.’ "—Wal- ter Winchell. ‘|... Have been swamped with work, gags, pests, panhandlers, taxi- dermists, swamis, can-mail, and 1000 and 1 things that go to make radio a by-product of the aspirin industry. ... my real pet peeve is a picket with squeaky shoes.”—Fred Allen. “My pet peeve is the 24-hour day. It is over before I can really wake up."— Billy Rose. "Pet peeve: Willful ignorance of things worth while by so-called intelli- gent persons.” —Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. “My pet peeves are whistle-while-they- “I BELIEVE THE YOUNG MAN AT THE NEXT TABLE IS TRYING TO CATCH YOUR EYE, MISS.”" workers and whistle-while-YOU-work- ers, also telephone ear-benders. The type that gets you on the phone and starts with the weather and drifts to lumbago, income tax, the length of the Brooklyn Bridge, the size of your hat, and ends by asking for a line in your column for a client, all while you're try- ing to make the deadline.” —Louis Sobol. "Two of my pet peeves: Drinking of cocktails during a meal (instead of a select wine.) Smoking during a meal.” —Oscar of the Waldorf. “Paying bills.” — Raymond Ditmars. “My pet peeves are all Nazis and Fas- cists—foreign or American,"—Paul de Kruif. “My pettest peeve is the guy that gets a toe-hold on your ear on the train com- ing down in the morning, just as you're starting to read a newspaper, and all the way into town he gives you a complete en- cyclopedia of his garden, wife and brats, Yale's chances, the Euro- pean situation, and everything else that even a professional listener would turn down at the rate of three bucks an hour.”"— Milt Gross. "My pet peeves are Fred Allen and Detours.” — Jack Benny. “Appendix scars on strip teasers." — Reamer Keller. “My pet peeve is @ magazine sym- posium, contribu- tors to which are asked to give stuff without remunera- tion.” —Franklin P. Adams. (Pretty conning of me to print that one, eh, F.P.A.? And by the The Judge comicbooks.com