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Show MARX BROTHERS CRAM FOOLERY IN "DUCK SOUP" Those humpty-dumpty, hooligan stars of the stage, the radio and the screen, The Four Marx Brothers, are corning back next Sunday when their newest Paramount picture, "Duck Soup" opens on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, December 10, 11 and 12, at the Cameo Theatre. The film, directed by Leo Mc-Carey, Mc-Carey, who made "The Kid From Spain", has a stellar supporting cast, including Raquel Torres, Louis Cal-hern Cal-hern and Margaret Dumont. As all the other pictures these four comedians have made, "Duck Soup" is crammed with delightful music including the now famous "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" This film, though, has a very definite de-finite story. Briefly, it's all about a mythical country, Freedonia, where agitators are working, inciting the mobs to revolt against unjust taxation. taxa-tion. The country needs money, but its wealthiest citizen, Miss Dumont, refuses to lend the country any more unless the fearless fighter, Rufus T. Firefly, played by Groucho, is appointed ap-pointed dictator. The cabinet members reluctantly agree; the mob roars; the agitators slink away, and Freedonia's troubles just begin, with plenty of laughs to help. Chico and Harpo, two spies for an enemy country, decide to work for Groucho when they learn that the food is better and the blondes, more numerous. As a dictator, Groucho doesn't do much other than dictate to his secretary, Zeppo, but he starts a war and ends the picture with more laughs than there are fleas in his army. |