The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-25
DRAMATIC NOTES.

Potash and Perlmutter Take Part
ner. with Apologies to Montague
Glass.)
| (News From Eltinge Theatre, New
York;.
Might you know a feller by the
name Cohen, Maybe?" Harris Fish
bein asked his partner, Jacob Blintz.
"a question:" Blintz replied, II
know million fellers by the name
Cohen-anyway six"
Il mean Cohen which is going as
partners together init Potash G. PERL
mutter," Harris Fishbein explained,
"a feller by the name Cohen which
used to was in the show business"
do you mean George M. Cohen,
which used to was in the show busi-
ness corner of Forty-third street and
Broadway" Blintz asked
That's the feller,' Fishbein de-
clared
Couldn't them two boys find some
schlemiel in the cloak and suit trade
to go as partners together mit?"
Blintz commented.
What. do you mean-some
schlemiel in the cloak and suit
trader" Fishbein retorted. "How
Cohen, is schlemiel?"
Listen, Harris" Blintz began.
ANY feller which is got to go out
from the theayter business into the
garment business because he could
not make out in the theayter business
at all, understand me, must got to
be schlemiel."
''In what way must he got to be a
schlemiel?" FiShbein asked
Because, if feller is in the
theayter business, Harris, where
none of his competitors open up
their places until anyhow 8 o'clock
in the evening, understand, and
he don't know enough to open at Z
o'clock, we would say, for example,
and in that way cop out whole lot
of his competitors trade, y'under-
stand, then such feller must got
to be a schlemiel. Amt it?"
Maybe you are right" Fishbein
said, but this here George M. CO.
hen had misfortune also, Jake. He
is got working for him couple of
years ago feller by the name Wall
ingford, and such loafer as that
feller was you wouldn't believe at
all. l bet you he ganvers pretty
nearm the whole business away from
Cohen"
"And do you think Cohen would
be any better off nit Potash G. Perl
mutter?" Blintz asked. You could
take it from me, Harris( this here
George M. Cohen is going from fry
ing pan into another, that's all"
At this juncture there entered
Max Gelb, salesman for the Ham
suckett Mills.
"Well, boys, did you hear about
Potash & Perlmutter?"
''Nu, what about 'em?" said ia
cob Blintz,, who believed in letting
the other fellow tell all he knew
first.
"Why, A. H. Woods, the theatri-
cal producer, has had a play writ
ten about them,' Geib said, "and
it's to open at the George M. Cohen
Theatre on August 16."
"a play about them!" Blintz ex-
claimed, glaring at his partner
That's what 1 said,' Gelb con-
| tinued. Alexander Carr is going to
be in it and Barney Bernard, Louise
Dresser and Elita Proctor Otis and
Lee Kohlmar and Joseph Kilgour
and a whole lot of other first class
actors. I'll send you boys up a
couple of tickets
Much obliged, Max" Barney re-
piled, "but we couldn't buy another
yard of piece goods not if you was
to send us up the whole theayter
itself. We amt got no more space
in our stockroom for a reel of thread
| even."
Half an hour later Blintz turned
to his partner with a satirical grin.
do you got any more unconfirm-
ed rumors up your sleeve, Harris?"
he asked. might Sammet Brothers
is going as partners together nit
Gatti-Charosus, maybe?"