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Word: mawruss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1923 | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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