Judge, 1929-05-04 · page 22 of 36
Judge — May 4, 1929 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page reviews three books, with satirical cartoons illustrating editorial commentary on literary criticism itself. **Top cartoon**: "Be Careful in Your Criticism—Some sets are so sensitive" mocks oversensitive authors or critics who react defensively to negative reviews. **Middle cartoon**: A car accident illustrates the review of Francis Hackett's "Henry the Eighth," praising it as book-of-the-year. The text humorously describes Henry VIII as resembling "De Wolf Hopper" (a famous actor), emphasizing his serial marriages by quipping he "went thru wives as some men go thru socks"—dark comedy about his six marriages/beheadings. **Bottom cartoon**: Shows a crowded dinner scene with caption "Clever proprietor provides homelike atmosphere for husbands whose wives are away"—a wry joke about establishments serving abandoned husbands, accompanying the review of Edgar Wallace's autobiography "People." The page satirizes both contemporary books and the pretensions of literary criticism itself through Tad Dorgan's illustrations, a signature Judge approach.
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JUDGING BOOKS Qnaxcts Hackert’s “Henry the — | Kighth” is our choic s the hook-of-the-year. It is a con summate work, a monument. of scholarship, insight, — breadth. sweep and fullness, made daz by the sun of brilliant Hackett has exhumed a > dynasty, qui ed it to | a life, and put its breathless gal | lery of immortals thru their h toric paces again. A task for an | urbermensch, nobly acquitted. | dst a vivid welter of schem: ing wives, cold-eyed churchmen, pretenders, docile wives, double crossing kings and still morc — . wives, and in an age of dynamic Ty ts : 7 change, ambitiousness and _ bitter unserupulousness, Henry, the Big | Appetite, rears like a horsey bil likens, ever worki Br Carerun ix Your Crericisa—= Some sets are so sensitive. shipping heads, copu dirceting destiny. There king, gentlemen! Perhaps Hackett has not treated Henry's seven swipes at matrimony with enough ironic humor. Always we have thought Henry the De Wolf Hopper of his day. But, according to Hack- Henry was not the bluff, pot beer-swigging, Rabe- d-natured lover history has made him. Rather, a beefy, pockmarked, sinister, hypocrit- ical, craven fellow “who went thru wives as some men go thru socks.”” More of the regal urd, as it were. And | if you know your Joe | seven wives are no joke. — | are bankrupt of further ad- jectives. Let it be whooped thru the streets that here is a grand | book, a ( \ “Hobby House,” by Russel Neale. A. first novel’ about a — | family of river rats on the Ohio. but penetrat- | Grim, crude, rou ing and stimulating. *People,”is the of Edgar Wa the Ford of mnystery story writers. Racy, nd stocked with a thou- sand anecdotes of experiences taken from a crowded life, it makes for absorbing interest. autobiography Clever proprietor provides homelike atmosphere for husbands whose wives are away. —Trv Suase comicbooks.com