Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — COMING TO ELLIS OPERA HOUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COMING TO ELLIS OPERA HOUSE

"Abe Martin," the famous Hoosier cartoon character that Is delighting millions of newspaper readers throughout the country, has, during hie existence, been lauded to the skies by noted authors and men of letters. Now Boyle Woolfolk is to produce "Abe" in musical comedy, and

all the good things that have been said about “Abe” will provide the press agent with abundant material for “copy.” Not the least of "Abe's” admirers was the late James Whitcomb Riley, who dedicated the following poem to the whimsical philosopher:

Abe Martin —dad-burn his old plcture! P’tends he’s a Brown county fixture —• A kind of a comical mixture Of boss sense and no sense at all!! His mouth, like his pipe, ’s alius goih’ An’ his thoughts, like his whiskers, is flowin’ — An’ what he don't know, ain’t worth knowin’ — From Genesis clean to baseball! The author, Kin Hubbard, ’a keerless He draws Abe ’most eyeless and earless * But he’s never yit pictured him Er with fun 'at he tried to conceal~“ & WhutheY onto the fence or clean over A-r6otin’ up ragweed er clover, Skeert stiff at some “Rambler" er "Rover” Er new fangled automobeel. But best of ’em all’s the fool-breaks 'at , Abe don’t see at all, and yit makes, 'at ■ 'I Both me and you lays back and shakes at His comic, miraculous cracks, Which makes him —clean back of the power Of genius itse’f in -Its flower — This notable man of the hour, Abe Martin, the Joker on Facts. "Abe Martin” comes to the Ellis Opera House Friday, Sept 17, direct from two capacity weeks at English ■ opera house, Indianapolis.—Advt.