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The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 105

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How a wifek false modesty can wreck If) I- Ifrm Youthful Groucho, as fabulous "Captain Spauld- shooting elephant in his pajamas. "How he got into ing" in 1921, eyed modest beauties hungrily after my pajamas," Groucho admitted, "I'll never know." 's specialty is fact madness If only she'd learn here scientific truth sjc can trust about these INTIM TK PHYSICAL FACTS! want than to know that a iamnu Surgeon and Scientist developed the zonite principle the nr I antiseptic-Kernucide principle the world with -mil a powerful (jerm-killing and deoih iriing a tion yet absoli tely s.fk to delic ate tissue lining. 7(N1TK is poitr.r'l-Hon-pot'Onott. nutt-irritdttnt You i an u-e zhnii as dire( ted a o'h Hi ncccj without the ilihlc-l n-k ol injury. A Modern Mirocle! zoni destroy- anil icnim e- ml.

causing wa-te substances Ib-ip-guard against intectioti. Its -o pniifrfulty fft'ttwe it kills e-r germ it touches. Vim know it always possible to contact all the germs in the tract. But yu uin FEEL (ONFIPENT that MMIE ll-rneditiltl kills cmtv reachable genu and keeps them from multiplying Scientific done lung in-truc-ti ins come with eery bottle. Otti'ii a younj; if is too timid or -hv to learn these intimate ph s.

ical tails Ami becau-e ol hi- tier hii-band may twinitif Milky ami resentlul. She teels her marriage is breaking ii heading tor ilivorce. Yet she rinds herselt hrlplrss. 1 t's this pit il ill young woman ho definitely needs to he instructed on how important vaginal dniich-i it olten is to intimate tenunine cleanliness, health, charm and murrtrj happiness comhat one ot woman most oriensive deodorant problems. And what even' Moke important why she should always use unite in her douche.

She should learn: No OTHER TYPE I.Iyt ID ANTISF.PTK OF ALL THOSE TESrftl FOR THE IMllcllE IS VI POWERFl I. ET SO SAFE TO TISSl ES AS ZONITEl Developed By World-famous Surgeon ond Scientist What better assurance could you V. Groucho matter of IK psychopathic ward style I ot comedy that a full vfeii-eration of Americans has been led to expect from the Marx Brothers was born quite by accident one nij-'ht more than 2(1 years airo in Xacoj-'doches, Texa-. The brothers were perform-intf their modest vaudeville skit when a mule bevran to kick a cart to pieces outside the theater. The audience immediately rushed outside to view this performance.

The Marxes, with no one left to entertain but each other, bevan to race about the staje in a mad frenzy, throwing fits and jrur-vlinj inanely until they stole the croud back from the mule. A few weeks later, in "Brownsville, bleak necessity forced them to expand this technifue. Their scenery and costumes had been impounded by a local sheriff and, unable to put on their usual act, the brothers resorted to the spontaneous imbecilities that had proved so successful in Nacovr-doefies. The audience loved it. Perfected through the years, the Marx Brothers' mad-house routine was refined by the time they reached Broadway to a point where only the keen-minded could detect where sanity ceased and irrationality took over.

In a scene in "The Coconuts" Groucho and Chico were serving as opposing lawyers. For five minutes the court proceedings were sober and serene. Then suddenly Chico became tongue-tied when it was his turn to question a witness. "Well," glowered Groucho, "ask the witness some questions." "Hokoy," said Chico, turning to the witness. "Whot's a big onimal with four legs and a trunk in the front?" "That's irrelevant." Groucho objected.

"Thai's correct," reiponded Chico. Radio has always appealed to Groucho because, as he once explained, studio audiences are the only ones he has ever played before who laugh at him without his mustache. In his present program, the first radio quiz he has ever conducted, he seldom permits a contestant to leave the mike broke. Hit stock questions to a stuck contestant are "Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?" or "Who wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans' by James Fenimore In "Animal Crackers" Groucho invented what has since become one of his most successful techniques: the stressing of the literal. In one scene, os Chico entered, Groucho snapped, "Your face is vaguely familiar.

You look like a man I know named Ravelli. "I am Ravelli," said Chico. "Ah," Groucho admitted, "that accounts for the resemblance. Another Marxian contribution to comedy is the illustrated pun. "Get the seal," said Groucho, signing a document.

Harpo dragged in a live seal. Actually, much of the early Marx material was unrehearsed. Audiencet loved the boys because they rarely knew what was coming next. And neither did the brothers. Once, during a Groucho monologue, Chico decided to heckle his brother.

He stepped from the wings and called out to Groucho: "Father, the garbage man is here." Groucho glared across the stage, adjusted his glasses, puffed on his cigar, twitched his mustache and spoke. "Tell him," he said bitingly, "that we don't want any today." Bennett Cerf, in "Try ond Stop Me," recalls one of the brothers' most famous skits: a burlesque on life at the court of Louis V. In this scene, Groucho was feverishly embracing Madame Du Barry when Chico entered her chambers. "Who are you?" snapped Groucho. "King of France," Chico replied.

"Whot?" Groucho yelled. "You the king? And me the prime minister? France must be in one awful fix." y. A twist on this gag served Groucho well in a later show. In an eerie setting, he was asked by a medium if he had any question he wished to address to his grandfather's spirit. "Yes," said Groucho.

"What's the capital of South Dakota?" To Groucho customarily fall the funniest lines, including the inverted puns, the delayed action retorts, and the studied insults directed at dowagers In the film "A Night in Casablanca," Groucho peeped through a key-hole at a beautiful spy, was caught red-handed when she opened the door. She asked: Won't you join me?" "Why?" replied Groucho serenely, "Hae you come apartt" Recently on his radio program Groucho deflated a brash contestant by reviving one of his oldest gags. "I never forget a face," he said. "But in your case I'm willing to make an exception." Mature Groucho demurely fondles blond he keeps in closet in latest Marx Brothers film, "Love Happy." They Fie Refugees once fled from Germany to Czechoslovakia. Now the direc- to Germany lor tion is reversed Read about thls Freedom flight from tyranny next week.

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