MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"A Day at the Races."

A horse-doctor pretending to be a specialist on "double blood pressure, a jockey who spurs his horse to win by showing the animal a picture of a man the horse doesn't like, and a vender of incredibly bad racing tips cause plenty of Uaughter in "A Day at the Races," which opens on^ Friday at the Majestic Theatre, with the three Marx Broth*er3 portraying the funniest roles of their entire careers. Groucho Marx* plays the horse doctor, Harpo ■ the jockey, and Chico the vender of badlips. Assisting them in some of the most amusing situations are Maureen O'Sullivan, the talented singing juvenile, Allan Jones, the stately Margaret Dumont, and Esther Muir, who undergoes terrific "punishment" from the comedians. Even the maddest of the Marxian antics usually have a straightforward plot to fall back on, and "A Day at the Races" is no exception. In this case the complications ensue when creditors attempt to take over a^anitairium owned by Maureen O'Sulliva'n. Groucho, Harpo. and Chico come to her rescue, and their attempts to run the sanitarium and, in conclusion, to raise enough cash to pay off, the mortgage by winning a horse race, provide the groundwork for madcap, action and dialogue which keeps the, onlooker in a state of near-hysteria. The scene in which the Marxes paste Esther Muir to the wall behind a bar-, rage of wallpaper, the screamingly funny medical examination in which i Groucho attempts to explain to Margaret Dumont why she should swallow a pill the size; of a,hen's egg, the episode in which Groucho tries every expedient to hide the fact that he is a veterinarian; —' these '^ and others stand out as incidents actu-; ally too funny to describe.. But there is.*.more than mere humour in "A Day at the Races.'* '.There iis the attractive singing of Allan: Jpnes in;such', hit num-1 bers as "Tomorrow' is Another Day," "On Blue; Venetian Waters," and "A Message.from the Man in the Moon."