Word: potashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melody Man seems to be a jumble of The Music Master, The Show Shop and Potash and Perlmutter, cemented by the unshakeable popularity of Lew Fields...
Died. Barney Bernard, 47, Hebrew comedian, creator of the famed Abe Potash role in the Potash and Perlmutter comedies, which he played more than 3,000 times; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. His most successful plays were Business Before Pleasure, Potash and Perlmutter, Partners Again...
Died. Martha Mansfield, cinema actress, 23, in San Antonio, Tex. The flimsy, hoopskirted Civil War costume which she wore as leading woman in The Warrens of Virginia took fire from a smoker's match. She appeared in other cinemas (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Perfect Lover, Potash and Perlmutter...
...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...
...holiday audience. Lillian Shaw was excellent in her Shavian character studies. Her East Side dialect was something to hear, and hear again, and her listeners showed their appreciation of her cleverness. If she is ever out of a job, she should have no trouble in getting work with Potash and Perlmutter after her first cheerful "Helloy...