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Potash and Perlmutter
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1910
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Title page
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Author Inscription
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This book was
published by the Henry Altemus Company in 1910. It was first published
in the New York Post in 1909.
The author, Montague Glass (1877-1934), was an English-born playwright
who moved to the United Staes in 1890. Although educated as a lawyer,
he made his living as a writer. His plays were comedies about Jewish
business partners. This book, Potash and Perlmutter, became a
successful play produced in 1913 (three years after the Altemus book
was published). Another half dozen or so plays were written in
collaboration with other authors in the teens and 1920's.
Potash and Perlmutter was also made into a Samuel Goldwyn silent movie
produced in 1923. Two sequels were produced, one in 1924- In Hollywood
with Potash and Perlmutter and the third one in 1926 - Partners Again.
This book was illustrated by Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944). Raleigh
did illustrations for a number of magazines: Vanity Fair, Saturday
Evening Post and Colliers to name a few. He mainly drew pictures of
"aristocratic socialites" including the pictures for this book. For
more information about Raleigh see
http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2009/12/henry-patrick-raleigh-1880-1944.html.
Altemus did not publish any other works of Montague Glass.
Glass inscribed this book to Benjamin Lambord (1879-1915). Lambord who
was an American composer was a friend of Glass. An article in the San
Francisco Examiner indicates that the Glass and his wife shared a
cottage in Switzerland with Lambord in 1911.
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Montague Glass
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Henry Patrick
Raleigh
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Sample Raleigh
illustration from Potash and Perlmutter
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