Show Groucho Marx Admits Plot for Atrocity By GROUCHO MARK MARX HOLLYWOOD When HOLLYWOOD When It began to be noised around that the Marx brothers were going to make a motion mo mo- tion Uon picture railed A Night In Casablanca there were arious various reactions According to Dr George Gallup there were three suicide attempts 14 shouts of ot No no not and nd murmurs murmur of dismay Finding myself one of the dismayed group I called tailed Producer David L. L w. w Its Ita all settled Groucho youre you're committed he announced Now I was wu frightened What do you mean mun committed We haven't ha even been examined by the state board yet In the middle of my protests protects th the door bell beU rang Outside was wasa a Western Union messenger Obviously Ob Ob- he was WR out outside he couldn't have been inside because the door waa waz M locked I 1 took the telegrams and thanked him this was cheaper I than tipping Being Being- a sentimental man man I cried a little a as I 1 read the wires They were messages fro from long life friends Here are tome some I of the more 8 sentimental ones one Fred i Allen And I thought the world had hi seen the end of atrocities Franklin P. P Adams Adam Now Is 18 the time lime for tor me mo to make use Ue of or my hide hideaway hide away In Connecticut My mind raced back over the Year Fears ears and the many kind things that had hed been written about us Our very good friend Alva John John- ston stan not to bo be confused with Erskine Er- Er alone Johnson once wrote a piece about us urs called The Scientific Side of at Lunacy Alva said Bald The are ef of- efficient efficient madmen out to overthrow sanity and common sense in a warto war warto to free the mind from reason and Judgment Continuing his touchIng touching touching touch touch- ing tribute he recited that when Chico was wu a boy he was wes given 50 cents a n. week for music lea les lessons sons OM and that ChIco shopped chopped around until he found a teacher who gave him lessons for lor 35 cents a week Nevertheless I have always b been n flattered nattered by the attitude taken bythe bythe by bythe the press preM In the affairs of at the Marx brothers Thus when I received a request from that witty and eminent emi em- nent columnist Irving Hoffman for tor a clew to the plot of If A A Night In Casablanca I had no other choice but to answer him So without thinking I sat at down and wrote the following I In A Night In Casablanca I I Ilay play lay a doctor who ministers to the natives native and as 4 a sideline hawks hawk can openers opener and pea pes jackets to the natives along the Gold Coast Coul of Africa When I first meet Chico he Is Ic working In n a saloon selling sponges to barflies who are arc unable to carry their liquor II la is an Ar Arabian caddy who I lives Ives in n a n. small Grecian urn There arc re many scenes cen of ot plen- plen splendor dor and fierce antagonism m and Color an m messenger enger boy runs Riot Riot in case you I have never been there is hi I a small email night club on the edge of town own All this has been okayed by the Hays Hay office Good Housekeeping and the survivors of the Haymarket Haymar- Haymar ket riots and It if the times are arc ripe this can be the opening gun in anew a a. anew new world-wide world disaster |