Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently the New Yorker has been repeating, each week, the same Soglow drawing of an open manhole, from which issue voices providing different captions...
...Notable exception: the Four Marx Brothers. Groucho (Julius), Harpo (Arthur), Chico (Leonard) and Zeppo (Herbert) have the same mother, Minnie, the same father, Adolf. *Brought, last fall, to the U. S. by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Manhattan...
...Wynn, chief claimant to the title of the world's simplest person is now playing at the Shubert. There have been rival contenders for this position of honor in the past; Harpo Marx runs through a nifty exhibition every time he appears, but even he must make way for Dr. Wynn in the latter's special sphere. He was the "Perfect Fool" par excellence, and now he has out-perfected perfection if such is possible...
Animal Crackers. Zeppo Marx has good stage manners though he is otherwise without importance; Chico Marx plays the piano well and can, to some extent, imitate an Italian; Groucho Marx is garrulous and mad; but Harpo Marx has a wild and silent face, his desires are mysterious and he can play the harp. The four Marx brothers cavort together in Animal Crackers...
George S. Kaufman's book is far from being good and the plot of the show is too foolish to mention. There are songs and dancing, the former less remarkable than the latter. But Harpo, when he is through playing the harp, peers like a prisoner through the strings of his instrument; he pursues a girl quietly wherever she goes; his are light fingers as well as light touch and he picks pockets with dexterous greed; on meeting a new person, he offers his leg to be held and he whistles strangely...