| Show m m 1 M Marx x Movie Short Short on Horses I F But Has Plenty of Music By Paul Harrison NEA Service Staff Correspondent H HOLLYWOOD 0 L NEA The maniac Marx Brothers have finished fin fIn- nn- nn r a picture called Go West but as a western it ranks somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where between the Coney Island i Fun House and a night club ro- ro f. f deo Which of course Is as It ItI I P should be t ti c Harp 0 Is glimpsed on a horse In int but cant can't that t one scene scene- you say any of the brothers really does any riding All westerns have to have a big chase sequence but the he one in this picture takes place on a train with the fugitive comics uncoupling cars and making making mak mak- ing th the locomotive scurry around through the sagebrush like an army tank The dont don't do any fancy six-gun six work either although does blow open a He does It to 1 safe cafe with a cannon get the deed to a ranch which is the keystone of a dastardly land- land grafting scheme That gives you rott an Idea of the story Groucho Plu Plucks s sA A G Guitar Dar I I and ChIco Included their respective harp and piano specialties Duck I I dailies In every film except Soup SoupS and Room Service The omissions brought a flood of ot complaInts complaints com corn plaints from fans so Go Vest West I has been given an extra quota of at music Romantic-Hero Romantic John Carroll Carroll Carroll Car Car- roll has two songs one with harmonica harmonica har bar monica accompaniment by th the other with guitar plunking by Groucho Its It's an odd fact that the eldest Marx actually a guitarist of concert concert con con- cert cart skill never had played It In Ina Ina Ina a picture or a show He wasn't scheduled to play in this picture but they finally let him when he began to grow about it As Asa As' As Asa a strummer guitar-strummer Groucho thus displays at least one attribute of ofa a opera horse-opera star They always have a tough time introducing solos and the device used this time is even sillier sil sil- sil- sil Her lier than usual it t se seems ms that the screwball trio with Carroll and Heroine Diana Lewis are spendIng spendIng spending spend spend- ing Ingan an evening at an Indian reser reser- There are a lot of ot pretty squaws about so makes news by chasing a few brunets One of these romantic pursuits leads him to a loom where a cutie Is working overtime on a rug The cords on the loom look like harp strings He plucks at them Idly and surprise finds them taut and resonant and turned So he plays By the Waters of th the Minnetonka on the loom loom loom-a a feat made doubly astonishing by the fact that the period of at th the picture predates the writing of the song by about 40 years Musical anachronism is nothing in the life of ot Chico either I Seated at an 1870 tonk piano he clatters through The Woodpecker Song a hit of ot 1940 The Cost Of Chords Funny thing about Chico is that privately he seems to care nothing about playing Never plays Informally informally informally in In- formally never practices until shortly before a number must be ber r recorded corded Except for his vaude- vaude tricks he really isn't much of a pianist He always wanted to lead a band and now hes he's goIng going going go go- ing to do it He has a 16 piece orchestra and a contract for an week eight-week stage tour The brothers brothers' secretary Rachel Linden gave me another r musical note on Said that for years she made out checks for him to a piano plana teacher At first I thought he was Just versatile she re re- re- re called Finally I fo found nd out he still couldn't read music or play the piano either Hed He'd been payIng paying paying pay pay- ing a piano teacher to play chords so he could work out the same combinations on the harp by ear The picture finished Groucho Is pack packing ng his golf clubs and guitar for a cross continental motor jaunt thinks hell he'll try the stage stage In in the top role of TheMan TheMan The TheMan Man who Came to Dinner Some ome movie people are being recruited for for a tour with proceeds to be split between the Red Cross and War Relief The customers probably would demand a harp solo and Marx is wondering whether he could twang the spokes of the play characters character's wheel chair |
