Life, 1921-06-30 · page 23 of 41
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This cartoon satirizes wealthy industrialists through a domestic scene. The image shows well-dressed businessmen ("generals of industry") conducting serious business negotiations in what appears to be a modest tenement or working-class building—incongruously accessed by fire escapes and ladders. The caption references "the Brothers Smith" taking stock and one brother having mislaid a cough drop, treating a trivial domestic loss with exaggerated gravity. The satire's point: these powerful industrial figures, despite their immense wealth and importance, fuss over minor personal matters like ordinary people. It deflates their supposed superiority by showing them engaged in commonplace concerns. The juxtaposition of grand "generals of industry" language with humble, cramped surroundings and petty worries creates the humor—mocking both their pretensions and the absurdity of how seriously the wealthy treat minor inconveniences.
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June 30 9st perhaps because it has been done before so often. Anyone who EORGE M. COHAN has announced that he is definitely iked that touching though throaty appeal of two seasons through with producing plays, owing to the demands of the tack 10 “Come where the Camp-fire is gleaming,” will be Actors’ Equity Association, Perhaps Mr. Cohan wants to devote to like “Poppy Land” in the present production. all his time to running that clevator he once swore he would those sitting in aisle-seats will appreciate the frequent operate rather than see the actors win their strike in 1 ministrations of the chorus Robert C. Benchley. (CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE Owing to the time it takes to print Live, readers should verify from the daily newspapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned More or Less Serious Sun-Kist. Sam H. Harris—Came here you will whistle a great deal afterward and The Bat. Morosco—Pertectly splendid from California for a month and has been try out some dance-steps when you are alone. » ars bbery and g 1 ye. induced by popular demand to stay longer. x BE tery Sere’ BEV Second-class, but good second-class. The Whirl of New York. acking mystery. Goat Alley. Bijou.—To be reviewed next _ Two Little Girls in Blue. George M. Ziegfeld Follies. Globe-—To be reviewed Cohan’s—You won't die laughing at it, but tater. Winter Garden, —Reviewed in this issue. week. The Green Goddess. Booth.—Old-fash- oned melodrama moved to the Himalayas —_— = — and all slicked up by George Arliss, in a f highly elective manner. | Liliom. Fulton.—As fine a thing as has this » An account of ¢ Roughneck’s, life and death, with his ad res in Heaven. Comedy and Things Like That The Broken Wing. Forty- ny rate, you'd think it was a real airplane crashes into the end of the first act. The First Year. Little—Frank Craven's bilarious epic of the commonplace. The Ghost Between. Thirty-Ninth Si.— me of it is good, including Arthur Byron, tat es you don’t know whether to laugh or cry Jest Married. Shubert.—Regulation bed this time on board an ocean liner. Overman makes it funnier than most of them. Ladies’ Night. Eltinge.—Couldn't be much more olfenstve and, by the same token, ouldn't be much more popular. Lightnin’. Ga —Will bear watching Mr, Pim Passes By. Garrick.—Extremely deasant English comedy, extremely well Jone in spite of constant moving about from heatre to theatre Nice People. Klate—An amusing sermon cts, dealing with the younger set especially Miss Francine Larri- Eye and Ear Entertainment The Broadway Whirl. Times Square.— Reviewed in this issue. The Dumbells. Ambassador.—Canadian war-veter in a soldier-show of consider- able mi Honeydew, Casino. — Zimbalist’s score well sur The Last Waltz. Century—Good music by Oscar Straus with Eleanor Painter to splendidly, and James Barton to act which he does about as well as n town, New Amsterdam. —Leon Errol and Miller in as satisfactory a musical scan be found e Along. Sixty-Third St—Colored 1a performance just bubbling with ythm and harmony. Snapshots of 1921. Selwyn Nora A 5 + Sal — Nor INTIMATE GLIM oF r z s Bayes, lew Fields and DeWolf Hopper in IPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY 3 collection of burlesques, some very funny . 2 TAKING STOCK AT THE BROTHERS SMITH, A TENSE MOMENT. BROTHER and others very depressing. E. S, SMITH MISLAYS A COUGH Drop, comicbooks.com