The play is called The Woman Who Laughed and the male lead, who Nathan asserts "gives a creditable performance", is future movie star William Powell, who had his first role in a film that same year of 1922.

Mr. Nathan has also attended various kinds of multimedia experiment, it seems. Every generation thinks it's the first to try this kind of thing. "For the last six or seven years they have been trying to devise some means of combining the motion pictures and popular dramatic entertainment—as if the latter, generally speaking, weren't bad enough already."

That says it all, generally speaking.

In 1922 an automobile was perhaps the contemporary equivalent of a killer app. People were buying them. They were a "must have". And if you had a house and a car you also needed a house for your car. We call these garages. At the time, almost a hundred years ago, this seemed fairly silly and extravagant, particularly as garages were decked out with any number of amenities and tools to create a more suitable environment for caring for your car.

As garages became more and more like houses, somebody at Judge decided to cut out the middle man, so to speak, and just store the car in the actual house. With a few modifications, it's quite sensible.

But perhaps the most humorous thing is this bit from the advertisement on the back cover, for a book of etiquette. I don't think this is meant to be funny but this drawing of the fellow in evening dress with an olive on his fork might keep me smiling for the rest of my life.