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...hind legs and fight for what we believe to be right with all the energy and intelligence we can command. Bernarr MacFadden in The New York Evening Graphic...
...thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD'S A. KABIBBLE. ... By the Creator of "Abie the Agent...
...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...
...Hershfield's contract with King Features expired Dec. 31, was not renewed. Welcomed, with some surprise, by Macfadden, Hershfield signed a two-year contract for a daily cartoon and a daily colyum called "If I'm Wrong, Sue Me." When King Features saw that he proposed to call his Graphic character "A. Kabibble," it accepted the invitation, threatened suit for an injunction on the ground that Abie Kabibble?character and name?was its property. Cartoonist Hershfield changed his character's name to "Meyer the Buyer" and grimly prepared to fight...
...hero) of the strip, surrounded by un-caricatured Jewish characters; 2) he was preferable to the oldtime stage comic Jew who wore beard and derby, talked with his hands. A colyum in the current issue of The Zionist comments on his change of locale: "Here is where the Graphic gets our daily two cents." Two months ago many a Jewish weekly printed an editorial for the 18th birthday...