How to pronounce“black maria”in English

Annie Oakley shooting glass balls, “Frankenstein,” and everyone’s favorite, “Professor Welton’s Boxing Cats!” Most of these were shot in the first movie studio, the Black Maria, which was created

That, combines with complaints that it was cramped, stuffy and hot earned the studio its name: Employees called it The Black Maria, after a local expression for police vans or paddy-wagons,