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...gives $200,000 to the director of the company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed concerns the efforts of Groucho and associates to get Ricardo a job in the opera company and further...
...gold in nothing less than $8,000 lots. Therefore the French peasantry, which has taken the place of Mother India as the world's most avaricious gold hoarder, has organized innumerable syndicates to buy the $8,000 ingots and divide them into little hunks. But easier to get and stow away are U. S. eagles ($10 gold pieces). Double eagles ($20 pieces) were advertised in French newspapers last week at $21.50 (550 fr.); the price has been as high as $25. A profitless nuisance to New York banks. Jean Frenchman, if he still wants eagles, must now send an agent...
...plot is the usual comedy of an inefficient shoe salesman who accidentally rises in social standing for an evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point...
Start in lije: a futile attempt, at the age of 12, to stow away on a sailing vessel for world explorations...
...Easily, Sire!" exclaims the Dane, "I could stow you away in a single empty wine cask...