Word: chico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the Marx brothers, and there are only three of them who count, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico, the show is a better than average musical production. Such a statement is distinctly damning it with faint praise; but it need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts...
Died. Mrs. Minnie Palmer Marx, 65, of Manhattan, mother of the five Marx brothers (Zeppo, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo); in Manhattan...
...Milton G. Marx, wife of the dress-manufacturing fifth brother of the four famed Marx brothers (Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Chico), brought suit against the parents of her first husband, the late R. Russell von Tilzer, for custody of the child she bore him. now aged 19 months...
...earnings are indicative of a bad 1929. During 1928, Kolster showed a 43% increase in gross sales, but had so much difficulty in obtaining supplies that its expenses, unduly large, reduced a large gross to a small net. Much more serious, however, were the crop frosts. In Chico (Butte County) 75% of all fruit was estimated to be frost-touched. Damages included 100% of early walnuts, 95% of peaches, 100% of apricots, 90% of pears. In Sutter, Yuba, and Butte counties combined, the loss was some $10,000,000. Citrus crops were not harmed. Over many a California county hung...
...Notable exception: the Four Marx Brothers. Groucho (Julius), Harpo (Arthur), Chico (Leonard) and Zeppo (Herbert) have the same mother, Minnie, the same father, Adolf. *Brought, last fall, to the U. S. by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Manhattan...