who is the daddy to whom the death's head figure war refers in the cartoons caption
Daddy Warbucks
Warbucks was born about 1894 , near the small town of Supine . ( In Thomas Meehan 's 1980 novelisation of his 1977 musical , he was born and brought up in Hell 's Kitchen New York and is 52 years old as of 1933 , thus giving him a birthdate of 1881 . In the 1982 film , he says he was born in Liverpool , United Kingdom . ) His father , a section boss on the railroad , was killed when he was a month old . His mother was left with only `` gumption '' and a house in which she was able to keep boarders . His early youth in Supine involved cornering all the marbles in town at age nine , serving as a messenger for the telegraph company , having a girlfriend named Millie , fishing , swimming and raiding melon patches with Spike Spangle and beating up the son of the banker who planned to foreclose on his mother 's house . Then on June 7 , 1905 when he was 11 years old , his mother died at age 30 , of typhoid . On the night of the funeral he was put on the outbound Limited . Presumably he later spent some time in the city for he and Paddy Cairns were companions together in the old 8th Ward .
Warbucks was born about 1894 , near the small town of Supine . ( In Thomas Meehan 's 1980 novelisation of his 1977 musical , he was born and brought up in Hell 's Kitchen New York and is 52 years old as of 1933 , thus giving him a birthdate of 1881 . In the 1982 film , he says he was born in Liverpool , United Kingdom . ) His father , a section boss on the railroad , was killed when he was a month old . His mother was left with only `` gumption '' and a house in which she was able to keep boarders . His early youth in Supine involved cornering all the marbles in town at age nine , serving as a messenger for the telegraph company , having a girlfriend named Millie , fishing , swimming and raiding melon patches with Spike Spangle and beating up the son of the banker who planned to foreclose on his mother 's house . Then on June 7 , 1905 when he was 11 years old , his mother died at age 30 , of typhoid . On the night of the funeral he was put on the outbound Limited . Presumably he later spent some time in the city for he and Paddy Cairns were companions together in the old 8th Ward .