I took Magnus to soccer this morning, then Mom took Gus to Eller's birthday party around lunch. Gus went over to play with Rhett and stayed through dinner. Neil & Kelsey and another couple (the Nortons) came over to our house for dinner and a game night. We had a good time. When Gus came home from the Grummers', he didn't say anything to anyone -- he just went upstairs and started getting ready for bed. I tucked him in. I asked if he wanted to go downstairs and say goodnight to Mom, but he said, "Not really," because there were people he didn't know. As I walked out of his room, he said, "Tell Mom 'hi,' and tell Mr. Neil 'hi.'" But Mom wasn't having that. When I told her he had gone to bed, she went upstairs to kiss him goodnight.
In anticipation of hosting game night, we tried to figure out how to engage the leaf in our vintage table. When Grandpa & Tutu were in town we nearly took it apart trying to crack the code, but we never could. Mom figured it out this afternoon when she found a small hook hidden behind the folded up leaf. This was the picture we took to send to G&T. Mom was very proud of herself.
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How Sir Launcelot slew the knight Sir Peris de Forest Savage that did distress ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen, from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Arthur Rackham (1917)
The Marx Brothers left vaudeville and stepped up to the legitimate theater in 1924 with a show called I'll Say She Is. Unlike their subsequent shows such as Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts, it was never turned into a movie, although one historian has said that "Every Marx Brothers film contains material and situations that can be traced back to I'll Say She Is." Groucho called it "probably the funniest show we ever did."
I'll Say She Is toured for a year and a half before arriving on Broadway in May, 1924. No one expected it to succeed; the Broadway engagement was just a sop to the brothers, who had been threatening to leave the show unless it went to New York.
But the critics loved it. "It is a bright-colored and vehement setting for the goings-on of those talented cutups, the Four Marx Brothers," wrote Alexander Woollcott in the New York Sun, who went on to single out Harpo for special praise.
Maybe it was being on Broadway that led the brothers to bill themselves, in the program, as Herbert, Leonard, Julius H., and Arthur Marx. Not that anyone was fooled.
The show ran for 313 performances, which was excellent for the time. The brothers were lionized by New York society, and Harpo was invited to join the Algonquin Round Table.
Above: Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, and Chico, with Lotta Miles, in the sketch called "Napoleon's First Waterloo," in which Groucho played Boney. Source: illsaysheis.com
Below: a handbill from the performance of November 17, 1924. Source: NYPL