Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
...worth their keep, to Showman Billy, were any of the Met's 38 directors: "Letting Belmont, Bliss, Colt, Dillon, Reed, Whitney, Winthrop et al. boss our most complicated entertainment venture is as daffy as letting Harpo Marx run U.S. Steel. In the old days . . . Otto Kahn and his contemporaries . . . were willing to pay for the privilege of making the Met their hobby . . . But today's directors have shown little facility with the fountain pen . . . they (should) hold one last meeting and fire themselves...
This aggregation takes its stroke from Charlie Rimmer, veteran of several seasons at this key position. Behind him range Albie Carter, George Lodge, Bill Barber, Jim Homans, Nat Ober, Harpo Hanson, and Lou Cox, with Sam King doing the talking from the storn
...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...
...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 in and out of their plot roles as the occasion demands; so Groucho leers, Chico mugs, and Harpo ogles with accustomed vigor. After two reels, even the most astute...