CRAZY COMEDIANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 274, 18 November 1937, Page 3

CRAZY COMEDIANS

“A DAY AT THE RACES.” The world’s craziest team of nonstop comedians, the Marx Bros., appear in "A Day at the Races,” which is to commence on Saturday of next week at the Majestic Theatre. A story which centres round a sanatorium, a scheming mortgagor, and a race-track gives full rein to the very peculiar talents of the unquenchable three. Groucho is a horse doctor whose charm is so great that he gets a job as a chief surgeon at a sanatorium. Chico has a number of jobs organised for himself, a few of which are bell-boy, race-track tout, and ice-cream salesman. Harpo, the most noisily silent actor on the screen, is a jockey, and a very good one, except that he never follows instructions when told to lose a race. The three are thrown together fortuitously with the common aims of dodging the sheriff and of saving the sanatorium for its beautiful owner, Maureen O’Sullivan. To this end, they almost succeed in wrecking the place and a perfectly good race-track. Allan Jones sings well several numbers, including "On Venetian Waters,” "To-morrow is Another Day,” and "A Message From the Man in lhe Moon.”