Life, 1923-02-22 · page 12 of 36
Life — February 22, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct pieces: **"My Husband Says"** (left): A domestic humor column where a wife recounts her husband's complaint about her wearing a hat twice in succession—apparently wasteful extravagance. His suggestion that she wear it more frequently to justify the expense is presented as absurdly penny-pinching. The satire targets frugal husbands and Depression-era economic anxieties about household spending. **"Ways to Make a Fortune on Broadway"** (right): Tongue-in-cheek advice for aspiring theatrical producers, including hiring inexperienced office boys and mounting predictable mystery plays. It mocks Broadway's commercialism and low artistic standards. **Bottom cartoon** (by Alice Harvey): Shows two children struggling against wind, with the caption "We can't go very fast to-day, Georgie, on account of the wind"—gentle humor about childhood experiences.
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LIFE My Husband Says HAT I shouldn’t have put his sailor in the Morgan Memorial Bag, and any- how, he says I should have told him be- fore the Morgan man came and took the bag away. He said it was a perfectly good sailor; and would have been all right for him next summer, and anyhow, some one in our family has to make a cut in the millinery bill sometime. But I think the very thought of wearing a hat for two seasons in succession is positively repulsive; especially if it can’t be freshened with ribbon, or flowers, or any- thing. And I am sure some good, worthy man will get it and be uplifted by it. I think people should put nice things in the Morgan bag. I put my pink beaded tunic in last week. My husband said it required too great an expanse of powder when I wore it, and if I lost another bead it would be a calamity. But I think it was stunning, even if it was a little faded; and I just love to think of some poor, tired working woman wearing it down to dinner. It was a little tight for me just after dessert, but I think most‘ poor people have straight lines. My husband says he thinks they roll to keep that way. Ways to Make a Fortune on Broadway ET a job as an office boy in a manager’s office Pick out a “mystery play” from a stack of MSS, the manager hasn’t read. This is best done by arranging the MSS. in a semicircle and counting out as follows: Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, Catch a drama by the toe, If it reads well, let it go, Eeny, meeny, miny, mo. A mystery play, by the way, is one in which cvery character is suspected of the crime until the end, when it is disclosed that the cat committed it. The mystery consists in why anybody goes to see it. Borrow $10,000 from a bootlegger and buy some scenery with it, Hire a stage manager who knows something about the art of the theatre, but don’t let him do what he wants. Let some of your actors appear from the boxes and down the main aisle. You never heard of that trick before. It has been practiced for centuries, but your audiences won’t know that any more than you do. After this knock-out, import something from Russia, and become “a patron of the theatre arts.” eK Write a play. Get George M. Cohan to rewrite it. kK Write a play. Get David Belasco to rewrite it. “We can’t go very fast to-day, Georgie, on account of the wind.” comicbooks.com