Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall, the small, elfin man with the face like a melancholy Harpo Marx, was having his first one-man show in seven years...
...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Sonja Henie, Harpo Marx...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Donald O'Connor, with Harpo Marx...
Professionally, the other Marx Brothers haven't worn nearly so well. Harpo, once the rage of several continents, has just finished a series of television commercials for a milk company; Chico does his hoary piano routine and Eyetalian dialect around nightclubs; Gummo, who quit the act for good to become a World War I doughboy, is his brothers' agent Zeppo, now out of show business altogether, manufactures airplane parts...
Alberto Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...