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...windows, cuts holes in floors, scatters passports to the wind, chases pretty girls, and gleefully slugs people he doesn't particularly like. Groucho handles the leering quip with illimitable finesse: ". . . some days I never got to bed at all--in those days a college widow stood for something." Chico, an underrated artist, is a good straight man and a master of the pun: "there ain't no Sanity Clause." Zeppo tries hard, but he's only along for the ride...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

Rabaud La Procession Nocturne" Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major Piston Second Suite for Orchestra Ravel "Daphnis et Chico," Suite...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...motion picture of almost classic proportions Groucho Marx once tried to get his brother Chico to sign a contract which contained a sanity clause. "Ha, you canta fools me," Chico argued, "there is no Sanity Clause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Community Is Heterogeneous | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...Chico, head of the working bandits, J. Carroll Naish does a fine eye-rolling caricature of the stock "Mexican general." He is greased-up, bulb-nosed, and hidden by eyebrows and mustache heavy enough to make a hair shirt. The dancers (Ricardo Montalban, Sono Osato, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse) are easy to watch. The Technicolor makes the white horses and blue skies look wonderful, and most of the actors feverish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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