Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy Parker named the place "Wit's End." He lives in Sybaritic ease, attended by a youthful Negro servant named Junior. When he writes at home, he customarily dictates to a male secretary. Breakfast or cocktail guests are likely to include the Ben Hechts, Charles MacArthurs, Neysa McMein, Harpo Marx, Noel Coward, Herbert Bayard Swope. With Editor Harold Ross he maintains a perpetual Potash & Perlmutter squabble, which last week came to an end when they parted professional company...
...theatre with a 7-foot stage for family theatricals, loud speakers by both croquet court and pool. The ranch is under the special care of "Ceegee," who does the hiring, firing and ordering. Of a week-end there will be from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came for a day, stayed a week. Two Chinese cooks, a butler, a second man, a maid for the cabins, take care of the guests, except at luncheon, which is prepared by Mrs. Norris herself in a picnic grove cookhouse...
...gently amusing and quietly entertaining movie. Tom Brown is as Tom Brown has always been--terribly serious, terribly earnest, gaping, apparently stupified by what goes on, and all in all, completely irritating as an actor. He is as well-adapted to the part of a medical student as Harpo Marx is to the part of Hamlet...
...eloquent as the silence of Harpo Marx is the unintelligibility of Stepin Fetchit, who is too lazy to use words. Born Lincoln Perry in Key West, Fla., in 1902, Stepin Fetchit went to divinity school. When after two years he learned that it would take two more to finish the course, he resigned. Discharged for incompetence as a racetrack tout, he adopted the name of his favorite horse (Step and Fetch It) and decided to try acting...
...movie has been assembled quite expertly and intelligently. The cast, with the exception of Adolphe Menjou who is a back slapping high-pressure salesman and quite unsuited to the part, could not have been better. Joan Blondell is a charming gold digger, and Guy Kibbee is as ludicrous as Harpo in his blonde chasing escapades...