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Time for Elizabeth (by Norman Krasna & Groucho Marx; produced by Russell Lewis & Howard Young) was a tin-and-cardboard comedy which was meant to be box office but turned out to be a bore. Closing after eight performances, it showed little of what its collaborators are best known for: Groucho Marx, as playwright, lacked the divine madness he displays as a performer; while the smooth Krasnagraph that reeled off Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary badly needed oiling...
This week the committee issued an interim report on its work and pursued new leads. After a long hunt for him, it caught up with J. Peters, a man with a Groucho Marx likeness who, Chambers said, was the Communist underground boss who introduced him to Hiss. Confronted by Chambers and asked if he knew him, Peters refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. He gave that same answer to some 30 other questions. But he did admit that he knew Earl Browder...
...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...seene halfway through "Room Service" finds a doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom, Harpo Marx chasing a turkey around the hotel room, and Groucho and Chicho browbeating a timid lawyer into signing a $15,000 check. In a matter of minutes Harpo accompanies the other two on the harmonica as they sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" over the body of a possum-playing playwright. All this and love interest too is entrenched at Boston's citadel of slapstick, the Laffmovie...
Never ones to let a logical plot stand in their way, the Marx Brothers outdo themselves in this revived 1937 classic. The chase, the great delaying action, Groucho scooting around like a bowlegged buzzard, and all the traditional slapstick routines are crammed into a confusing but hilarious "Room Service." According to the screenplay, Groucho is a producer who has no backers, Chico an unidentified character who lives with Groucho and owns a large stuffed moose head, and Harpo an actor who plays a dead body in Groucho's epic. But as in all their films, the zany trio slip...