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What has eight legs and laughs? ran the question in the '30s. Answer: the Marx Brothers. Later they lost a pair of legs, when Zeppo dropped out of the act. Groucho, Chico and Harpo went on to make eight more films together, becoming precursors of the new American humor. Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." Harpo was a troll bridge between the silents and the talkies. "How can you write for Harpo?" shrugged George S. Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters...
...Round Table; Groucho corresponded with T. S. Eliot in a number of letters that showed that he thought of himself as a cerebral clown. But the old vaudeville team had begun its film career comparatively late in life-in 1929, at the time of their first film, The Cocoanuts, Chico was 40-and by the late '40s their creative energy had faded. To a whole generation of television viewers, the Marxes are at once as familiar and as obscure as the Smith Brothers...
Harpo and Chico are dead, and Zeppo has been retired for 36 years. Groucho is confined to occasional cameos in such humorless atrocities as Skidoo. In lieu of a reel of their films, this book is the best possible way to meet the Marx Brothers when they had all their energy, all their laughs and all their feet...
Sophomore Pete Bernhard replaces Ignacio at first base. Coach Park has picked Bernhard as lead-off batter because he has excellent speed. Chico Garcia, a star of last year's Yardling team, probably will start at second base, but junior Bill Cherry is a serious contender for the spot...
...Northern California, the violence that racked San Francisco State affected six colleges. There were fire bombings at San Mateo and Vallejo and strikes or the threat of strikes at San Jose, Sacramento, Chico and Fresno. Farther south, police clashed with 2,000 demonstrators supporting Black Students Union demands at San Fernando Valley State College, arresting...