Show Which Marx Got the Biggest Laugh There Is s food for far thought in the tho following editorial that appeared appeared ap In the May June Issue of the Du Pont Company's employee magazine Better Livings Living I IThe The Marx named Karl founder of communism was a n dour character who lived in the Nineteenth Century A deadpan kInd of comic of the Buster Duster Keaton Ned Keaton-Ned Sparks type his act was to say funny things as though they weren't t funny at all The Marx named Groucho on the other hand is an out out and and out yak man lies lie's funny all the W way Y You get Grou Groucho's hos ho's lines right away Karls Karl's become funny over the long pull pull pull-a a few lew decades or so Trouble is sometimes that alot a n alot lot of mischief goes on before people get the humor of it Subtle Karls Karl's stuff is Like where he says capitalism leads to the concentration of ol wealth in the hands of the few and the Impoverishment of 01 the people as a whole You dont don't get that one until you try to find a place to park downtown town amid all ail the Impoverished people shopping shop shopping ping like mad in the department stores When you do It kills you Nobody ds that funny tunny Or like where Karl says the only answer Is for workers to seize the tools of production and hand them over to the government govern ment mend to run You dont don't get that until you see the newsreels of the new Russian automobiles and see that they'd be sneered off any used used car ear lot in America Then youre you're doubled up in the aisle es es- when IOU vou see cnn that and commissars are nn w u n tiding riding at t all 1 Even Groucho Isn't that funny after all Or Karls Karl's line about the miserable hovels in which workers must live stiff with cold as they huddle about the charcoal bra brai zier You dont don't get that until Saturday night when you hear the furnace click on and you notice e that the only thing huddled around the charcoal brazier are the he hamburgers That stretches you out holding your sides Funny thing Is that only under capitalism is 1 there ever enough money for comedians So when It comes to comics weve we've made our choice Groucho can stick to romantic roles where both Troth he and his countless admirers will have more fun Well We'll stick ck to Karl Hes He's the Ithe biggest bl all ail times |