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Groucho

paper and what they used
before that momentous event
(Aus.: The Herald-Tribune):
what happened when Groucho
attended an advance screening
of Samson and Delilah: Uncle
Herman, the chiropodist, who
set fire to hotels for a living, to
cite but a few.

And the songs! Groucho
may not be Caruso, but he
doesn't have to be to score
triumphs in Lydia, the Tatoed
Lady and Stay Down Where
You Belong, the song Irving
Berlin is willing to pay
Groucho $100 not to sing.

Groucho is a great artist. He
knows how to be funny; he
knows how to move his
listeners; and above all he has
sympathy and understanding.
The mood of this album is
gentle, pensive. As the fourth
side comes to an end, I finally
felt that I knew Groucho as a
human being as well as perhaps
the greatest comic of the
century.

In the absolute deluge of
applause that follows Lydia,
the last number on the album,
someone asks Groucho if he
wants to do more. "We haven't
got any more," he replies.
Surely there must be more
more stories, more songs, more
reminiscences. I hope that
Groucho will share them with
us.