Ish Kabbible

[George Thompson]

For those of you who have been cursing the fate that caused you to be born 90 years too late to read the Abie the Agent strip in the paper:

Abie the Agent: A Complete Compilation, 1914-1915, by Harry Hershfield.  Westport, Conn. : Hyperion Press, c1977.

Available at better libraries everywhere, although I admit that I didn't buy for Bobst all of the early comic reprints this publisher released.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Eulenberg" <eulenbrg at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Date: Monday, January 5, 2004 5:38 pm
Subject: Re: Ish Kabbible

> Here's my guess.  Film derived from the strip.  Wish I could find
> a copy!
> Better yet, think what this says about the growing popularity of
> the auto!
>
> Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>
>
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Baker, John wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: Ish Kabbible
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> >         Is it relevant that an animated silent movie featuring
> Abie the
> Agent, named Iska Worreh, was released in 1917?
> >
> >         Abie's agenting was not, of course, of the secret kind.
> He was
> an agent, or salesman, for a car company.
> >
> > John Baker
> >
>