| Show FOUR F LOOK FROM LAP OF LUXURY BACK ON LEAN LEAS YEAH 1 Clowning Brothers Live Lazily With of Now Compared Days Tossed Coins and Nickelodeons tr r f S Fit Film comedians i P d In words word that you'll enjoy are r the t. subjects of t e series of articles by Th The Th Telegrams Telegram's special Holly Hollywood correspondent j PuI ul Here Her is the fir first t article artle in ir this series r lI cr i S S. S By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD Those HOLLYWOOD Those are at it again What they are areS areat S at this time is a picture to be called caned A Day at the Races Races or orThe or orThe orS S The Courtship of Miles Standish or dr Elsie Dinsmore at the Nudist camp or something You never can cnn tell Jell about titles You never ca can tell about the either ither At this writing their picture is to have Saratoga and its race track casinos and fi sanitariums for locale Groucho i is a doctor a stable boy C Chico lico a tout By the time you see the film though they may be S respectively Sir Malcolm Campbell Shirley Temple and a tattooed man named Butch Anyway r the brothers are here and have sworn new fealty to Hollywood Their intention is to devote ote themselves exclusively ely to movie making golf cribbage cheese blintzes and occasional l socials held b by strayed delegates of Manhattans Manhattan's Literary LitS Literary Lit Lit- Lit Lit- S and Inside Straight club They are committed henceforth S to the creation of a Marx Broth Brothers rs picture every nine months m mth instead in instead in S stead of the usual previous previous' interval of pf a year anda Q a half Even with this redoubled lazy life ife L Lazy zy a any y Way vay compared with their lean years of one night stands The three separate but neighboring homes of th the are lull full of mementoes of those trouping days and the new house w which ich now is decorating will have a room literally papered with photoS photomurals photomurals photo- photo S murals of early snapshots snapshots' and vaudeville posters From their current security of a week week their their total wage while the working working the the brothers enjoy 1 looking oking back on the times when a scornful shower of pennies from a hooting audience was a practical boon as well wen as a reproof Pennies were tossed during their first appearance in Lo London don and Chico rush rushed d into a box screaming bums They shared In the general opinIon Jon Ion that they were pretty terrible Only Minna Minn Marx their mother was as sure that genius lurked in the agile agUe fingers of oC Chico and under the flaming wig of the goblin and in n the glib insanities o of Groucho She She wasn't saddened when the lit lit- tte talented tie Gummo retreated into the cloak and suit business nor would sh she have been surprised at desertion a couple of years ago to turn actors' actors agent Minna Marx died in 1929 complacent in her triumph S Shean Positively el Mr S. S r Her only brother Al became the Shean of Gallagher and Shean and his success prompted her ber to train her sons for the stage Leonard onard now Chico received piano lessons essons at a cost of oC 35 cents a week He in turn gave lessons to the second second sec see ond brother Arthur now They looked alike so the more proficient Leonard would get a jobIn job jobIn jobin in a a. nickelodeon and Arthur would report for lor work next da day Chico finally ran away fro from home to go west and wound tip lip in Scranton Without him became a hotel bellhop p. p Milton Mllton the third brother who was was known as Gummo when the youngsters were renamed as clowns downs showed some aptitude for singing and dancing Julius the future Groucho made an early debut as 83 a boy soprano in an Episcopal Episcopal Episcopal Epis Epis- copal choir Mama Marx soon shunted him Into tnt show business first with Gus GusI Edwards I then in a trio in which he be Impersonated a girl When he was 14 U and In Denver Groucho's S v voice ice changed and he was reduced to driving a grocery wagon Mania Mama Starts Trio The following season S organized the Three Nightingales Nightingales- S. S Groucho Gummo and anda a girl to sing soprano During weeks when they were paid they received 20 for the act The following year the thc tour was extended with snatched from his and literally thrown on the stage of oC a Coney Island music hall ball for his initial apI ap ap- ap- ap I Mama Marx traveled with wilh the troupe and nd carried along Herbert then 3 who became The Nightingales by the addition of oC Mama and an aunt became the Six Mascots the mute became became became be be- came dumb in a Texas town when the act was held over for or a second week on condition that they'd present present pre- pre sent ent a new show 5 They were lere pla playing ing in a schoolhouse schoolhouse schoolhouse school- school house so their new skit was called Fun in Hi Skule dug a ared ared ared red wig from the property trunk trunkS trunk'S S 'S and appeared as a voiceless dunce The The customers laughed at him S S After that he lie never spoke In In Chicago they were joined by Chico There for the first time they were billed as The Four Marx Brothers Talks Sense Seme Most of oC the foregoing information information information tion is obtained from who is thoroughly articulate off Groucho is articulate too but many manya a correspondent has interviewed him for a hilarious hour or two and then realized that not a line of ot it could be printed S Anyway goes on to tell of ot the development of some some characterIstic characteristic character character- sUe bits of theatrical business I So I wore the wig he said and Groucho wore one too until It was accidentally ruined one night In desperation he borrowed a. a trick mustache from froma a man who was playing on the same bill bill bill-a a aman man named Charley Charley- Chaplin One One night night I was stuck for a It way to make an exit Exits are tough So I chased a a girl who acted scarce scared to d death dath th because she really was scared cared to death rye Ive been chasing girls girle ev ever r since Joke on the J Joker ker You rIOu know about dropping the silverware out of my sleeve We WeI decided that if two or three knives I i would Voul get a s' s laugh a shower of a hundred ought to get got a yell I It does When I went to Russia alone a couple of ot years ago Ambassador Bullitt gave a big dinner and I was Introduced to Foreign Commissar As he started to shake shak hands a cascade of knives and am forks fell out his of-his sf sleeve eve It waa was wa wasS S 1 a nice nic compliment O SOur Our r mother mother- decided that I r 5 T 7 Even in hit his youth w was s a dandy AS this picture of the th mute comic t at t J 1 11 I shows should hould play the harp She wrote toUncle to toUncle toUncle Uncle Al AJ 10 and said to please lease buy a harp for me mc He wrote back ack that he ho could get one for two and a half hair but but he meant So I finally bought one for 45 5 It t never never was paid for tor because I ar arranged arranged arranged ar- ar ranged instalments instalment of 1 a month and the man died long before he got his money Exclusive Artist taught himself to play the spavined instrument which he had hado to o brace with a stick and some string tring He even tuned in without instruction and in such unorthodox fashion that no other harpist in the world can play the instrument Incidentally the harp he now uses cost And its it's paid for Cocoanuts was not the Marx first picture Twelve years years ago the they made a silent called which never was released It was just as well Next C. C W. W V. V Fields Field 5 W S y f r y S S. S I S S L 4 I II I S Il S l z 4 I c. c T s l lp p i r 3 S S 'S I In Ma Mama Marx Marx ran th th original orinal Four Marx Brothers Brothers- left to right Harp Gummo Chico and Groucho Grouch I S The Marx rt brother today today eft ft to t right H rh the Ph sil silent Chic Chico the th motional Groucho the fh voluble |
