Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like other Marx Brothers pictures (The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) this one is distinguished by an irrationality which is only vaguely challenged by romantic episodes concerning Zeppo Marx. This time Zeppo is attached to a blonde Miss Bailey (Thelma Todd), the college widow. Groucho, Chico and Harpo also attempt to become familiar with Miss Bailey. She tries to steal the signals of the Huxley football team from President Groucho by taking him for a ride in a canoe. Groucho lets her paddle, throws her a candy life-saver when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap...
...hero, he resolved to turn villain. The brilliance of his strategy is plain in this picture, which he wrote himself, sold for $1. The story is laid in a castle outside Vienna, seen from the perspective of the servants' hall. Gilbert is a new chauffeur with a monkey's flair for mischief. Plausible, playful, roving-eyed, he spreads ruin and rage around...
...Longer Tolerate the Teaching of Evolution?" "The Doom of Democracy." On the platform, speak ers and officers, addressing the brothers & sisters eight times a day. "Ours is a labor of love." We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust. . . . The Cleveland Colored Quintet sings "The Monkey's No Relation of Mine : Brother Eldon Farrar blows sweetly on a trombone. The everlasting blessedness of the saved. ... On the hard seats children fall asleep. A man bench," and a girl repenting sit their on "the sins. Later there would be more. And the everlasting, conscious punishment...
...crocodile v. python, python v. honey bear. The honey bear comes out better than the rest of Author Buck's creatures because he runs away first. Small and incredibly clumsy, he is the most charming of Author Buck's captives which include a quarter-ton elephant, a pot-bellied monkey, a white fuzzy creature which runs up & down on a rope...
...Bull & Monkey" story in your May 9 issue you say, "Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull." There is no such thing as a "thoroughbred bull...