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- - Groucho Marx And Other Efifsfiéfigyme Life of Short Stories And Tall Tales ' ' Rooezt S. 85:09 eC Haber £8.99)
John S. Barrington .\ . ., Love, Grouc 0: Letters from R..:)e't Sr‘it". (Se'per‘t's Ia: H.199) -.- 2:3: mat '.'...::. I Groucho Marx to His
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, a". arr: '.'<i.:', ~.~ .-.-:>:::-a » Some twenty years after his death, Julius .- , ' .: ; :: (its-'22? .-.» Inf 1' J. Henry Marx aka Groucho - the one who '_"-.' ::v;..'*':.=' !'- ' ' gave himself the best lines in the films which made a trio of Jewish New York
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Sx::~~ .('{.‘:iil!' x The evidence of his everlasting v;.~:~.a1z>w.::'~ Maury.:-~.1.::;i--n.::t., appeal is in these two books ‘."-.~ 41:)" :::>:":> .a-w: 1., which bare all the hallmarks — ()..m><=: <: s ow“. 1., mm: 'j'w- :14 sorry — of his genius which (v <; "a 0‘ ",I‘) I)l3‘u"\‘> '.' :;v:> enabled him to be funny, flirty "‘(hif'v , :1 and facetious in equal measure. on: :>'-;> " C; ::" '."<-.i'.'-a Bader's edition is a collection of tmw "(:‘(ML mod-«i '1» .'.:i' 1:, :" short comic pieces scribed by Marx 300'”. "‘m'. (2‘ '.'.'<‘:.'. "1: I<:"::<>" \ '<='.~;‘-(=. s ‘.."::.‘:"‘:‘-'1'..&‘. '8'; ; _. '...'m for The New Yorker and Variety "Lest E "(I it: ‘(wna z” " (Wm, <><>x "<1 ( '.w 's'. (z: ., «that» it: between 1925 and 1973 — with ‘:>' (10(20- OUR "<1, "‘«i‘>( .. "t"- "‘("“i)i"."s (I 3'“ xx '."<> .mv'fl. "(as a" IKE“? insights into theatre and politics (1‘ TH“ ‘:)'<<‘~s 0'1 (him .'."<> "v '.'.(>.. (I and showbiz titbits. ‘ 1' ‘>'~<:t:><;r.a:>" .mi w: .w T" s Daughter Miriam, meanwhile. has h'" 2 h ° Because She done the public a favour in divulging the correspondences from her father — a , . . :. . :‘ . otherwuse known as Padre, Groucho, Papa, Julius, Shorty or any number of (l‘(‘:"(; "r; "mm :1 mm», .m: w ‘<>.."<I She LOVCd M6 the ridiculous pseudonyms he claimed in the films — between 1938 and smiles of f"(‘- mair» " ::.:'<> Maxim) J(,L<._Jg)0\_-_v5ki (Do ‘40: P'pgg f /) 1967. Subjects here range from his largely disapproving attitude towards v <:r='~‘.a~:: .rmw: 'f'w: use: (in. her boyfriends, to the state of the Cleveland Giants.
:13""“«.". '9, A‘tw :>"<‘- ~ (:“1 ;:‘ ..":><:..'~::-;~:: um Unlike the quasi-hatchet jobs which emerged after his death in 1977, these
.\ thong“ ‘m ".it ~:;, Mn”: 8'“ t" '.<>(;z>'."(>', ,<><= down-x f" < .a '. aw" twat books show Groucho at his own inimitable word playing finest and are a - finfrafm: z: mum“. .a 1' (L; s"<‘~ "‘..'s'_ m: we am" ::> must for unreconstructed Marxists everywhere. (Brian Donaldson)
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