Them As Is Because, 1911 NYC Vaudeville 2: Local Vanity Cartoon Books, Part 7
It’s been awhile since we last focused a post on the Vanity Cartoon Books of the early 20th Century, in which local business people & others of import, paid to have themselves caricatured by local newspaper cartoonists. Being in such a book with other local leaders, was both a status symbol, as well as good advertising. We go back to look at the 1911 New York City version of Them As Is Because. We’ve previously shown Theatrical Cartoons from this book, but we did not run through them all. Here are the remainder.
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Above, we have partners Frank Forsyth & Fuller, of the Metropolitan Booking Office theatrical agency. Below left, actor & silent film star Raymond Hitchcock; below right, Vaudeville Comedy Club Secretary, Gene Hughes.
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Above, song writer Jean Schwartz.
Below left, theater owner & real estate investor, John J. Reisler, had a checkered future, including not paying actors, bankruptcy, and perjury in the Herman Rosenthal murder case. Below right, Vaudeville agent L. Marinelli.
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Above, circus & burlesque promotor Samuel A. Scribner. Beneath, composer Harry Von Tilzer and famous Florenz “Flo” Ziegfeld, creator of the Ziegfeld Follies (who I placed side-by-side, because — at least from the way the cartoonist drew them — they appear to be separated-at-birth identical twins…).
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Finally, we have musical comedy producers Louis Werba & Mark Luescher.
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— Doug
