Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass (1877 - 1934).
Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment trade. Many of the plots were derived from trade problems he saw as a lawyer. This is the first book of the collected stories; his Potash and Perlmutter stories were also made into stage plays and even movies that were very popular in their time. (ToddHW)
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This paragraph is temporary and will be replaced by the MC with the list of sections and reader (Magic Window) once this project is in the admin system.
Project Code: wSSlIAhs
Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Montague Glass) : n/a
Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
Number of sections (files) this project will have: 17
Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
Original publication date (if known): 1909
If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
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Genres for the project: Culture & Heritage; Humorous Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: humor, New York, tailors
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Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
DURING recording: No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording: START of recording (Intro)
"Chapter [number] of Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures, by Montague Glass. [Chapter]"
END of recording
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At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures, by Montague Glass. "
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AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The new (free) version 1.3.3. of Audacity has much improved noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
potashandperlmuttercopartnership_##_glass_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. potashandperlmuttercopartnership_01_glass_128kb.mp3)
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@ 26:36, text is "Anna, you want to work by Mr. Potash's lady?" but I hear "Anna, you want to work by Mrs. Potash's lady?" Minor change but it did catch my attention. Take a listen and see if you want to change it.
