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Duck Soup (Paramount). Any country governed by Groucho Marx would likely become a shambles. Freedonia,* the scene of this picture, has Groucho for dictator, Brother Zeppo for his secretary. Freedonia's collapse is only delayed by Brothers Chico and Harpo as spies for a rival principality. Groucho is engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors...
With more plot and fewer girls than most Marx Brothers comedies, Duck Soup has the disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans...
...Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game. Having agreed to a quiet game, he found they had hired a hall and invited 300 cinema stars to watch the "world's championship." Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals. Best bridging Marx is Zeppo, best gambler Chico. All play a good bargaining game...
...side of the ledger, sure to please not only cousins, sisters and aunts but impartial spectators as well, is the performance of the valet. Jose V. Ferrer, Class of 1933. When this jolly young man puts on a woolly yellow wig in Act II he is the image of Harpo Marx. "I'm All Wrapped Up In You" has the nicest lyric of 14 songs. Triangle itinerary: Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore. Washington...
...employer, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, last week devoted space in his "Today" colyum to describing the animals in Mr. Hearst's private zoo. Then he went on: "The collection of human beings here is also interesting. Charlie Chaplin flew up yesterday. One of the Marx Brothers, named Harpo, has just arrived, in a hired plane. He brought his harp and played on the way up. Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page and married Helen Hayes, two remarkable accomplishments for one so young, flew up with Marx and warned him against harp playing, which is a celestial monopoly...