2 Potash & Perlmutter books by Montague Glass
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Overview: Montague Marsden Glass (born July 23, 1877 – June 21, 1934) was a British-American Jewish lawyer and writer of short stories, plays and film scripts. His greatest success came with the creation of his fictional duo Abe Potash and Morris (“Mawrus”) Perlmutter, who appeared in three books, a play, and several films.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures (1909)
Potash and Perlmutter made their debut in the short stories published serially in the New York Evening Post. These were then published in a collection Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures, in 1909. In the first story, Potash and Perlmutter meet and become partners in the “cloak and suit” business, subsequent stories seek humor in the pair’s business dealings with buyers, suppliers and employees.
Glass, trained as a lawyer, derived the plots of many of the stories from his own experience of the legal problems typical of traders in goods: breached contracts, deliveries of non-conforming goods, problems with trade credit, etc. “For ten years Mr. Glass was present almost daily at bankruptcy meetings, closing of titles to real estate, and conferences with reference to the entrance into or dissolution of co-partnerships.” These experiences formed the basis of his stories.
The characters of Potash and Perlmutter were both Jewish, like Glass himself. The characters’ Jewishness is highlighted by Glass’ use of dialect in rendering their dialogue. One contemporary critic wrote: “His method is photographic and phonographic; that is, we get the life just as it stirs daily in the cloak and suit section of New York, and we get it through its own language.” In rendering the characters’ dialect in print, Glass primarily relied on word choice and word order, seldom misspelling words for effect. Thus, a critic in 1917 distinguished Glass’ style from “dialect stories … in which the “Hoot mon” and “Ah’. gwuine, Suh” are sprinkled as liberally as caraway seeds in rye bread.”
Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things (1919)
Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things is like The Daily Show of its time, 1919. Business partners Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter trade zingers about the news of the day. And such news! — the end of World War I, peace talks and wartime President Woodrow Wilson’s idea of the League of Nations. But not for Abe and “Mawruss” are the affairs of state. They’re in the “cloak and suit trade” and all they want is to find out the latest hemlines from Paris. It’s just their luck, they wind up with nothing to do in the City of Lights but read the newspaper and hash out Wilson’s efforts make peace. The comical commentators get little introduction here from humorist Montague Glass: They didn’t need it. Glass spun their observations into decades of stories, plays and even movies. Potash and Perlmutter offer a painless way to learn history. The surprise is how contemporary they sound about international crooks and press conferences where nobody learns anything. Perlmutter can’t remember the French president’s name. “Call him Lefkowitz,” Potash says. “I’ll know who you mean.”
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