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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present reviewer is distinctly a Marxophil; there is no question that he will attend and enjoy every piece in which Harpo Marx has a part; Harpo's countenance insures it. And so with this introduction and explanation let us proceed to a consideration of the performance at hand, which is "Animal Crackers", now playing at the Shubert Theatre...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Minnie Palmer Marx, 65, of Manhattan, mother of the five Marx brothers (Zeppo, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Milton G. Marx, wife of the dress-manufacturing fifth brother of the four famed Marx brothers (Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Chico), brought suit against the parents of her first husband, the late R. Russell von Tilzer, for custody of the child she bore him. now aged 19 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch the elusive implications of silent Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There are also two female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings a Mid-Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes a rather feeble finger at country politics. Morgan Wallace (the name of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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