Abe Potash swears he will never take another partner, and then goes into the cloak and suit business with Morris Perlmutter. Their wrangles over customers, credit, salesmen, bargains and each other unfold in the Yiddish-inflected English of New York’s garment district, in episodes that ran in the Saturday Evening Post before becoming a hit play.
Affectionate comedy of immigrant business life by a writer from that world himself, its ethnic humour very much of 1910. Download the free EPUB.