$500 FOR ONE PAPER DOLL


Jack Eisner might make you a doll for $200, but his regular price is more, and his customers keep him very, very busy.
BY Louis Hochman
SOUNDS silly for a man to spend his time cutting out paper dolls. Stuff for kids and crazy people. But it's silly like a gold mine for Jack Eisner of Kew Gardens, Long Island. He cuts out paper dolls and sells them for $500 apiece.
His first paper doll was a caricature of Jack Oakie, the film comedian. Eisner admits it was pretty crude, but it impressed the art director at Paramount Pictures.
"You've got something there," the art director told Eisner and doled out twelve whole dollars for his paper doodle.
That was Eisner's first paper profit. Since then, he has bettered both his technique and his income. Now he gets from $200 to $500 for a single caricature.