Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, hazarded on the occasion of his 70th birthday last month, that "he might not have been discovered if he hadn't looked like Groucho Marx...
Half smothered behind the albaline that was fast obliterating his heavy black moustache and eyebrows. Groucho Marx, the most brittle of the four "Animal Crackers" now playing at the Shubert Theatre, hissed invectives against New England in general and Massachusetts in particular. It was all on account of the recent "Strange Interlude" controversy, a propose of which Groucho said: "Yeah, Quincy's a sore throat: and Boston's a pain in the neck." He pointed out that behind all this "preposterous censorship" were not the Lowells and the Cabots and God, but the Caseys and the Kellys; however, he added...
...this time, Groucho's make-up was completely erased, and, after he had donned his horn-rimmed glasses, he looked a strange mixture of the legal and the professorial. One would almost have decided that there wasn't a trace of the typical actor about him until the eye paused doubtfully at the spectacle of pleated trousers...
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...