The Eldest Marx

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 16

The Eldest Marx

f<HICO MARX, who stars with his famous brothers, Groucho and Harpo, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “A Night at the Opera,” was born in New York City on March 22. The eldest of five brothers, Chico early developed a marked talent as a pianist! He left the family to support himself by playing in cafes, orchestras, theatres and even worked in music stores. He saw his brothers on the stage while they were on tour, one evening, joined them and has been with Groucho and Harpo ever since. After the New York successes of “Cocoanuts” and “Animal Crackers,” Chico came to Hollywood with the Marx Brothers to play In screen hits, “Monkey Business,” “Horse Feathers” and “Duck Soup.”

WITH Alexander Korda’s production ’ ' of the H. G. Wells story, “Things to Come,” in its final stages of cutting and editing, the cost of the picture is revealed as in excess of 1,200,000 dollars. It represents one of the highest budgets for a film production made outside of Hollywood. The principal item in the cost was the construction and the subsequent destruction of a whole city, followed by a complete rebuilding pn a vastly imaginative scale.