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Died. Alexander Carr, 68, stage and film actor, onetime Louisville street singer who won fame & a fleeting fortune as the irascible Mawruss Perlmutter in stage versions of Montague Glass's adventures of Partners Potash & Perlmutter; in Hollywood...
Died. Montague Marsden Glass, 56, writer, music critic, expert cook; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Westport, Conn. The Jewish cloak & suit men he met in his law practice served as models for his famed characters, Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter...
...first made them-contentious, lovable, inseparable. Their latest venture is into the dangerous private detective business. "That business is no business at all," decides Abe when he finds himself encumbered with an armful of revolvers. He would rather "sink in his liabilities than be shot by his assets." But Mawruss insists upon going through with it. In handling a Long Island jewel theft case, they flop from the distinguished station of international crime experts to the ignoble confinement of the local gaol. The cause of their downfall: softheartedness and general confusion on the part of both partners regarding the policy...
...mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles. Abe and Mawruss appear at length, however, fond anachronisms in a friendly quarrel over "Keeping Expenses Down...
Potash and Perlmutter. Abe and Mawruss-in anything that might be called the silent drama? Abe and Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash...
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