In a message dated 02/06/2000 11:29:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << 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