MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"A Day at the Races."

"A Day at the Races" brings the Marx Brothers—Groucho, Harpo, and Chico—to the Majestic Theatre on Friday in what is described as the maddest, merriest, most amusing piece of Marxmania that these inimitable comedians have ever conceived. Directed by Sam Wood, who filmed the last Marx Brothers triumph, "A Night at the Opera," the new picture boasts a stellar cast of supporting names, including Maureen O'Sullivan in the feminine lead, and Allan Jones, who sings several new song hits, among them "On Blue Venetian Waters," "Tomorrow Is Another Day," and "A Message from the Man in the Moon." The plot of "A Day at the Races," which shifts from a sanitarium to a race track, introduces Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a horse doctor who takes charge of the sanitarium. Harpo Marx is seen as a jockey, and Chico as a race-track frequenter who sells good ice cream and useless tips on the races; Miss O'Sullivan plays the girl who Is trying to keep ' the deep-dyed villain, Douglass Dumbrille,' from foreclosing on her sanitarium. Jones plays the struggling singer who owns a racehorse. Miss Dumont, enacting the type who likes to talk about her operations, is all for Groucho. because he has told her that she has double blood pressure. Esther Muir is the slinky vampire who tries to "frame" Groucho but who gets pasted to the wall by Harpo and Chico, posing as paperhangers. The Marx Brothers and a group of writers worked for a year preparing "A Day at the Haces." Laughs were submitted to the finetooth-comb test. The-com-edians are firmly convinced that no comedian who depends on new, original and special material can make more than one picture a year and be sure the picture is a success. Every situation, every laugh line in "A Day at the Races" is new.