Double-J ... if you fell asleep during a Marx Bros. film, it had to have happened during one of Harpo's musical solos. Lovely as they are, and brilliant a player as he was, I always felt those harp solos slowed down the films enormously. Even Chico's piano numbers had a bit of liveliness and he usually involved other characters in them.

I heard somewhere that Groucho always hated these musical interludes from his brothers and in one film (Horse Feathers, I think) finally did a parody of them on guitar in a rowboat to emphasize how ridiculous he felt they were. I love when he speaks directly to the audience during a Chico number to say he's stuck there but they can go out & buy a snack or something.

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