Glass, Montague [Marsden] (1877–1934), playwright. The English‐born dramatist and short story writer was brought to America while very young and began his career by contributing to various magazines. All his successful plays were collaborations, and many of them were based on his stories about a pair of comic Jewish business partners: Potash and Perlmutter (1913), written with Charles Klein; Abe and Mawruss (1915), written with Roi Cooper Megrue; and four with Jules Eckert Goodman: Business before Pleasure (1917), His Honor Abe Potash (1919), Partners Again (1922), and Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives (1926). Although several of his other plays received favorable notices, they had short runs.

1877–1934, American humorist and playwright, b. England, educated at the College of the City of New York and at New York Univ. He won fame for his humorous delineations of American Jewish life and character, especially in the “cloak and suit trade.” Potash and Perlmutter (1910) and Abe and Mawruss (1911) were both successful as magazine stories and later as plays.

(1877-1934)

1910

Potash and Perlmutter. Glass collects his first volume of dialect stories about two Jewish business partners. Other titles in the popular series are Abe and Mawruss (1911) and Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things (1919). Stage adaptations would appear in 1913 and 1915. Glass was a New York lawyer who specialized in the humor derived from New York's garment manufacturers.