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This is perplexing! ("Maha" routine)

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Dog Hambone:

--- Quote from: Senorita Rita on April 30, 2005, 02:36:10 PM ---Was it ever established whether the Stooges made up this routine, and/or if the gibbersh atually means anything? (The phrases are repeated in several shorts and TV appearances verbatim.)

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I found at least a partial answer to this question in my most treasured & valuable reference book, The Three Stooges Scrapbook by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, & Greg Lenburg, (Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ) quoted below:

"According to director Edward Bernds, Moe dictated the entire Maharaja routine to writer Clyde Bruckman, 'crazy syllable for crazy syllable' in a writer's conference on April 2, 1946." 

MR77100:
Wasn't that routine used in the movie "Time Out For Rhythm"? BTW, is that movie available?

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