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Marxian humor consists of two types. The sublimely lunatic Harpo wields the slapstick. He, as a personification of the Id, drops ice out of 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...
...room, chances are that you will never regain the thread of the plot. The obvious and only solution is to see each movie at least three times. The last time you'll laugh at the slapstick routines before they occur, thus enabling you to catch most of Groucho's gags...
...three erring Communists knew just what to do. They immediately issued a standard confession, admitting their error and endorsing their own censure. This reversal reminded the Ceylon Daily News of another Marxian "crisis" wherein Groucho, feeling the pulse of an unconscious woman, looks up at his audience and says, "Either this woman is dead or my watch has stopped...
...Groucho likes it fine. "In the old days they almost threw me off the air if I deviated from the script," he says. "I had to sign a written pledge that I would read only what was before me. But now I'm doing what comes naturally. It's like stealing money [$3,000 a week] to get paid for this...
...Groucho, 54, has been married to second wife Kay Dittig, 27, for four years...