Fluent in many languages and a connoisseur of fine wines, Montague Glass exchanged quips with Franklin P. Adams, played piano duets with John Erskine, and accompanied the violinist Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Thomas L. Masson compared Glass to an Encyclopaedia Britannica with a highly developed sense of humor and a passion for Max Beerbohm: the ideal companion with whom to share a desert island. For all his urbanity and savoir faire, Glass should be remembered for popularizing Yiddish stage types in his Potash and Perlmutter stories. These tales, which dramatized the adventures of New York City garment-industry kings Morris ("Mawruss") Perlmutter and Abraham ("Abe") Potash, generated Broadway plays which played over a twenty-five-year period. Glass was essentially a humorist, however, who interpreted the immense humanity of the Jewish immigrants in a manner calculated to soften many of the prejudices and suspicions which the American and British public carried...