Judge, 1928-10-27 · page 33 of 36
Judge — October 27, 1928 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** for Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel, with two small cartoons serving as decorative accompaniment. The cartoons are generic humor rather than political satire: 1. **Top cartoon**: Shows someone under a British flag during what appears to be a tug-of-war, with the caption implying safety under British protection—likely a WWI-era reference to Britain's military strength, though the exact context is unclear. 2. **Bottom cartoon**: An "Old Lady" observes a tug-of-war and suggests simply cutting the rope instead—a joke about naive innocence or foreign unfamiliarity with English customs. The main content is a prose advertisement celebrating the Book-Cadillac Hotel as a glamorous social hub where traveling salesmen, business captains, and young people mingle, dance, and conduct business. It emphasizes the hotel's cosmopolitan activity and comfort—standard luxury hotel marketing of the era.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
———] | Good night Just before bed time, hours after dinner time, did you ever sit and study the guests at the Book-Cadillac Hotel? The lobby is a crossroads with a thousand itinerants coming, going, chang- ing, and you measure them with a wholesome rule. Old roaring lion hunters tell tales to men who sit and think in terms of ten thousand cars. Music from the Blue Room, faint as a valley “Old on, Bill. You're quite safe under the British flag!” wind, beckons youths and sweeter —Passixe Siow : maidens to supper and dance. Younger salesmen dabble in dreams and rub shoulders with industry’s captains. Midnight comes and early morning hours find late counsellors and revel- lers hurrying to pleasant rooms to restful beds as soft and as sleepy as a winter’s night. The day is done. The city tires and quiets. A thousand guests are asleep. Good night. See yousoon. THE BOOK-CADILLAC HOTEL Carl M. Sayder, Managing Director DETROIT Orv Lavy (witnessing tug-of-war for the first time) Wouldn't it be simpler, dear, for them to get a knife and cut it? —Passixe Siow comicbooks.com