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...university which lacks a president had met last month to choose one, they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho...
...dogcatcher. He has a large lamp post to attract large dogs, a small lamp post for lapdogs, nets of various sizes. Running wildly about the town, he presently arrives at a speakeasy where Groucho Marx is trying to find a pair of professional football players to improve the Huxley team. Chico Marx is associated with the speak-easy as bootlegger and iceman. In the speakeasy. Harpo plays the slot machine with buttons, tries to enlarge his winnings by dropping coins in a pay telephone. He bowls grapefruit at bottles on the bar and when he hears someone...
Incompetent Groucho Marx hires Chico and Harpo to play football for Huxley, gives them each a contract. When Groucho wants a seal to make the contracts official. Harpo produces a live one. Presently, all three go to a classroom where Groucho gives a lecture on geography and anatomy. Says he: "The Lord Alps those that Alps themselves." Harpo and Chico stop clawing at pretty female classmates long enough to blow spitballs at Groucho. Groucho dismisses the class, blows spitballs back...
...that body's 100th. But save for a "pilgrimage" to Worcester where a group unveiled a memorial window in Worcester Cathedral and a plaque on the home of the late Sir Charles Hastings, B. M. A. founder, speakers in the main refrained from historical palaver. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley told about the "Biology of Human Nature.'' The Prince of Wales attended the Centenary Dinner in Albert Hall, sat close to his personal physician Bertrand Dawson Lord Dawson of Penn, incoming B. M. A. president...
...INDIFFERENT ONES?Alberto Moravia ? Dutton ($2.50). Witty tragedy by a young Italian who has studied Aldous Huxley...