In a message dated 02/06/2000 11:29:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< You're right! I get Marx off for that one... wasn't he impersonating
Captain
 Spalding, the-african-explorer-but-you-can-call-me-schnorrer, or was that
 another film? Any Marx Bros. experts out there? And who was that lady with
 the long beads?

 -- mixed up in Fredonia >>

Mary,

You're Marx are back on. The lady with the beads was Margaret Dumont, I
think.  I can't claim expertise in Marxism, as I was a Laurel & Hardy fan
first (my natal land is where they made their movies), and have developed a
taste for Mr. Fields (W.C, not Sidney J.) and his misanthropyin particular,
in my old age