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...talent for violent lunacy whelped the belly-wrinkling hysteria of such superb stage and cinema farces as The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera. Big Store is just the Marx Brothers nostalgically going through the motions of helping Detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho Marx), Housekeeper Wacky (Harpo Marx) and Pianist Ravelli (Chico Marx) catch a killer in the bargain basement. Absurdity (as in the incredible chase sequences) is substituted for comedy...
After listening for almost two months to such cinematic witnesses as Will Hays, Charles Chaplin, Harpo and Chico Marx, a Manhattan jury in Federal Court found massive, 58-year-old Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of 20th Century-Fox, guilty on two counts of evading Federal income taxes amounting to more than $250,000 for the years 1935 and 1936. Possible sentence: ten years, $20,000 fines...
...squeezable little wife Diana Lewis is currently the interest at the U.T., where the Marx Brothers are appearing in a movie. "Go West," a slap-sticky effort designed to make Horace Greeley regret his advice, succeeds in amusing more often than it bores. Worth-while if only for Harpo's solo on a blanket-loom...
...contraptions of Sculptor Alexander ("Sandy") Calder-stood on the stage, its burnished discs blazing in the spotlight. Before it, in slinky black gown and monkey-fur jacket, swayed a woman whose saucer eyes, blazing teeth, and hair like a jackpot of fresh-minted pennies made her look remarkably like Harpo Marx. A friendly, arty-social audience applauded. Marianne Oswald, diseuse (singing actress), friend of intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic, was making her U. S. debut...
...Other Decker "portraits": Harpo Marx as the Blue Boy, Fanny Brice as Mono, Lisa, Mickey Rooney as a Van Dyck sissy...