Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HARPO MARX Culver City, Calif...
...Paramount). Groucho is the one with the pointed mustache and glasses who pulls most of the wisecracks. Harpo is the one in the curled peruke whose zany glee is never accompanied by a syllable. Chico is the tough one. Zeppo is handsome and does little. They are the Marxes, the funniest brothers in the U. S. In this adaptation of their musicomedy, a better piece than their first talkie (The Cocoanuts), the plot about a stolen painting is brought scornfully to light once in a while, and then merely to prove that they had a plot to ignore. Romantic songs...
...comic squabble at the Greater London Council. When left-leaning Labor Party members in the city government voted to spend $53,000 on centenary observances, Conservative Spokesman Stanley Bolton reacted with predictable ire. "We don't owe anything to Marx," he said. "We owe more to Harpo and his brothers than Karl...
...times kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that," and became her most unorthodox and famous student. His name: Harpo Marx...
...taco and lemonade stand. The tacos here were cheap and tasty, but I have never been able to buy lemonade on the street since I saw Harpo Marx (in Duck Soup) hop into a vendor's tank of lemonade and jog in place until the police came...