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Show "Monkey Business," A Marx Brothers Production, Coming Chico Marx is a pianist who be came a comedian as a sideline and found his humor more profitable than his music. His.sturt in the entertainment j world as a piano player in a New I York neghborhood vaudeville house j more than twenty yea7's ago was ; recalled recently by Chico at tn ' Paramount studios where the Four1 Marx Brothers were filming "Monkey Business.' "I was getting $5 u week," Chico said. "One night the manager told me I looked husky and offered to increase my wages to $6 a week if I would wrestle one of the performers perform-ers as an dded attraction at each show. I accepted. "Later, he wanted to work me in as a monologist. So I bargained with him and, by throwing in a song and a dance, I was raised to $10 a week for my stage appear ance, wrestling and piano playing." Although he has done stage and screen comedy ever since, Chico has never allowed his piano wor to drop. He has a solo in every stage show and screen production and is considered one of the moat skilled pianists in the country today. to-day. And whenever Chico plays his piano, then you can be sure Harpo is going to follow on his harpo. The silent (vocally) member of the quartet is every bit as adept on the heavenly instrument as Chico is on the "horse's teeth." Their virtuoso interval in "Monkey "Mon-key Business" comes after they leave the transatlantic liner on which they had been hilarious stowaways, and when attending a parly given at the luxurious home of one of the passengers they had met on their crossing to America. "Monkey Business" comes to the Rivoli theater on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It is the third of the Marx Broth erg comedies, the earlier ones being "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers." |
