Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Harpo Marx and "The Wonderful World of Toys...
...four younger brothers in their own brand of joyously irreverent comedy; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. In such Marx Brothers hits as Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca, Chico convulsed fans with his deadpan translation of horn honks made by leering Brother Harpo, his wild-eyed pocket picking and shortchanging and his Chaplinesque penchant for attracting trouble...
Listening to the man and watching his antics, some in the world gave him a loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil...
...stance that reminded Woollcott of "a morning-glory vine climbing a pole." He was one of the deadliest pot rakers of the most famous seated gathering since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope and the rest with puns: "I fold my tens and silently steal away," or, apropos of nothing important, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian...
...mattered, really, since so much of the dialogue was inaudible. In the scene at the Royal Hall of the Troll King, Peer Gynt, the Troll King, and the Troll King's daughter stood at the rear of the stage, while at the front the trolls cavorted, pretending to be Harpo Marx. They whistled, grunted, beeped, honked, groaned and gasped--did everything they could, in fact, to ensure the audience's missing the dialogue...