About the politically incorrect, meaning the cigarette smoking. It
might well be he has one of this menthol cigarettes in his mouth, not
a real one. Observe the most regular outside end of it and the way he
holds it between his teeth, not between the lips.
Am I right Hardy Holmes?
Berti Watson.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:54 AM, iosif vaisman <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Irene,
>
> I too found this picture fascinating. Without trying to read too much
> into it, one can't fail to notice several reveaing details. Most boys
> would pose as a sailor, a cowboy or something similarly "romantic" for
> a picture like this, this boy poses as a businessman (if a somewhat
> cartoonish one). Definite signs of the upper-class background: long
> and well cared for hair, starched and pressed pajamas, and,
> interestingly, Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung - the more exclusive of
> two major German papers in Czernowitz (the other one - Czernowitzer
> Morgenblatt - was more "democratic"). But the most interesting part is
> the look on his face, very businesslike and cynical. The boy was a
> good actor.
>
> Iosif
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