Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild fantasies with everyday, drab realities. Beneath the surface of gaiety lurks a violent disorder which effects the comic catharsis. Yet "the violence is essential only in the context of gentleness (as in Charlie Chaplin films), only as in the serious performance about the delicate human heart (as in Harpo Marx films...
...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Swinging at the Summit," a not entirely exaggerated description of Dinah Shore's guest list, which includes Kay Starr, Tony Bennett, Harpo Marx, George Shearing and Louis Armstrong. Color...
...Pont Show with June Allyson (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Harpo Marx, in a rare dramatic role, as a death-dogged deaf-mute in Silent Panic...
...frequent charge that the bizarre (e.g., three-nosed) characters in his plays "come from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere." Through an interpreter he solemnly told his audience that the surrealists "nourished me," but that the three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic artist is essentially alienated?", thought it over and gave a perfect, two-syllable answer...
...years past, there have been several members of a family on the cover, e.g., three sons of George V of Great Britain (Aug. 8. 1927); four Marx brothers-Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo (Aug. 15, 1932); and three of Edsel Ford's sons. Benson, William and Henry II (May 18, 1953). There have been couples, including Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Oct. 26, 1931; Jan. 3, 1938), Ambassador to Russia and Mrs. Joseph Davies (March 15, 1937) and Stage Luminaries Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Nov. 8. 1937). But never before has TIME'S cover been...