Judge, 1929-03-23 · page 21 of 36
Judge — March 23, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate pieces of satirical commentary typical of Judge magazine: **"High Hat" (upper section):** A humorous anecdote about divorce and remarriage. The satire targets a couple divorcing and remarrying, with their wedding invitation styled as a theater playbill for "The Married Life of the Smiths"—mocking the repetitive nature of their failed marriage attempts. **"For Me to Hole Out" (lower section):** A lengthy golf anecdote satirizing vanity and pride among acquaintances. The narrator describes an absurd incident where his friend George refuses to concede a putt, forcing the narrator to miss his own shot. The piece mocks excessive pride in trivial matters and suggests George has since fallen into vaudeville poverty, reduced to playing saxophone in cheap theaters—a fate presented as deserved humiliation for his unsportsmanlike behavior. Both pieces target upper-middle-class social hypocrisy: remarriage as entertainment, and petty egotism among the leisured classes. The cartoons humorously illustrate these social embarrassments.
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JUDGE IMIG A clever wedding invitation— though extremely bad tast sent us this we The was married once before. patibility necessitated and now they are going was ple Incom- divorce the rocky road again, The invitation re “You are cordially invited to at- tend the premi¢re of the revival of THE MARRIED LIFE OF THE SMITHS, Original all-star a The passing speetack town reveals little of Nothing sensational unless Tmen- Jatest and silliest that of giving quaintances snappy pushes off the of the interest. AGRMATC 1OR tien my loMATO, SUNIOR prac- tical ‘ curbs in ‘Times Square when the traffic It fails. ‘The cops always bawl out the acquaintance for violation of pedestrian laws, SUNIOR GULDA is never Someone writes in and wants to know ve Olsen and his Or Tin humbled. ther ideric of Geo whether vestra are playing in New I don’t know. For some rea has been a lapse in the ea and Junior, We've seen little of cach other since the day he refused to concede mea four-inch putt at Lakeville. Oscar Shaw was playing with us and T had won all of George's money. As fast as IT won it I was turning it over Then George, ting his musical instruments. ( York. son or other, ing to Oscar, his coffers bare, began bet- I all) the struments except an old saxophone which Georg: refused to put up, with in won in tears his Then last hole. We all the green in two from the tee. George had a little luck on the hole. His drive with terrific force into the ball- washing bucket the tee and around with much momentum that the slice spin was straightened out in the ball and it sailed out of the bucket straight down the middle of the fairway. On his se d_ shot, which he swears he eyes. the were came sliced on spun it Soke ea (ha \S AGANST THEM ————, AUCKED JUNIORS HAT ON SO AGGHT LAST TUESDAY THAT WOUSE - WRECKERS FINALLY / GX \T OFF Hues pay —/ QUSHNG FRENDS OFF THE CRBS BS SQURE WHEN TRAFFIC GS J aimed at the ried stra across two on green, his ball ear- ht and beautifully ttral fairways and lit in the basket of a moving lawn- mower. The moving toward the green we were playing. One of the rules o is that a ball must t it stops moving. fell in’ behind mower and directe go to the green. lawn-mower was the lawn the driver to “hen the mower stopped and George played the ball out of the basket with a bamboo broom, He nearly holed out. caddy lawn s JAP MAN. Then I played my approach putt to within four inches of the cup. George was five inches from the hole. [ magnanimously con- ceded his putt, thinking he'd do the for me. He thanked me and picked up his ball and STOOD THERE WAITING TO HOLE OUT. IT argued and ar Reminded him of all the swell) pub Reminded him of that T SEE UNTIL same FOR ME sued. 2. licity I'd given him... . night 1 paid his taxi-fare. BUT TO NO AVAIL! 1 WAS FORCED TO PUTT! [ MISSED I HE HAD SAVED HIS OLD SAXOPHONE!!! Therefore, my deduction that George, his money nothing left of his vast estates but an old saxophone—is cringing in an’ out of vaude- ville the j wrong. yone- stage doors doing saxophone solos while rs opening the bill. I oimay be tbout Stribling. Oscar Shaw disap peared, He went on the road with “The Five O'Clock Girl.” ‘Tuesday evening are wror too, ‘owas dress ne formally for an evening of un ar slum- ming. He'd) done his work dandy no end—even provided me with button. a collar (By the ‘Toma has found a way to for- ever keep from los- ing that collar but- ton. minute 1 take it off he puts — | it in his mouth and carries it there un- | til its need arises | (Cont. on page 32) | way, » ie comicbooks.com