Life, 1919-04-10 · page 12 of 46
Life — April 10, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon**: Depicts young men at a social gathering with women, asking how to "amuse" the group. The caption jokes about entertaining "returned doughboys" (WWI soldiers) home on leave, suggesting they want to arrange social activities with young women. **Bottom Cartoon and Article**: Titled "Partners," this illustrates two businessmen and recounts a story about financial partners—Charles Frohman and Al Hayman—who shared a business but accumulated vastly different fortunes ($452 vs. $1.5+ million). The satire questions how identical circumstances produced such disparate outcomes, and includes a separate joke about a servant asking a wealthy family "How many in the family?" Both pieces satirize social class differences and post-WWI American life.
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Dowagers (who have been entertaining some returned doughboys, and enjoying thems hugely AMUSE You? “WELL, LADIES, IF YOU LS ABOUT THE DRAFT AGE!” Partners R' NTLY the financial records of two well-known men were reveale:l on the same day. They had been « gaged in the same business. They wer iriends. They were partners. The shared each other's thoughts. They ba: the same opportunities. When they dies one of them left an estate of four bur dred and fifty-two dollars; the ot estate of over one and one-half 1 One of them was named Charles F man; the other, / Probably a slight difference in ter perament was what made the differenc in their respective fortunes. As muc money passed through the hands Charles Frohman as through the har of Al Hayman. But it did not stick so well. Yet in the end the result was exactly the same (aoe AT THE OPERA Willie: MONEST, MOTHER, DO YOU LIKE THIS AS MUCH AS YOU LO THE HE servant question: “ How many in Movirs? the family?”