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During World War I, Picabia, who had inherited his father's fortune, found his true artistic climate in the cynically irreverent Dada movement. As a Dadaist he took apart clocks and made pictures by tracing their inner organs, mounted a stuffed monkey on a board and called it Portrait of Cezanne, edited and contributed to magazines with such names as 291, 391, Cannibale...
...spent a year in Italy, "drawing animals mostly. The monkey in The Barber Shop I drew first during that time. I hadn't any money. I remember looking in a candy-shop window and thinking that if ever I was rich I'd come back and buy some." At last a great-uncle who lived in Brooklyn succeeded in getting him to the U.S. He began making money at once at commercial art, and "in 1940 a girl friend whom I knew for many years in Vienna came over and we got married...
Koerner found the steps for The Pigeons at Brooklyn's Borough Hall, "though the scene goes far back into my childhood." The Barker's Booth was a memory of an amusement park in Vienna, rediscovered at Coney Island. Like Monkey Bars and The Lot, with its engineless, wheelless car and painted palm trees, each of those pictures was what he calls "a balanced structure of contradictions" -a mingling of reality and illusion...
Andrew W. Hirshberg '48 sang a series of Western ballads, accompanying himself with the guitar. Between songs he inserted plugs for his sponsors, candidates Paul S. Dollin and Leonard E. Reisman. His performance was only slightly interrupted by the cavorting of a large brown monkey bearing the sign of Murray Budabin on his back...
After three viewings, you may be able to remember that "Horsefeathers" is the one in which Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo careen through Huxley College in a garbage-wagon chariot, among other conveyances. In "Monkey Business' the Marx boys plague the captain, crew, and passengers of an ocean liner like four hyper-thyroid Nemeses. But plots count for nothing when the Marx Brothers are around. In fact, everything counts for nothing--except unending hysterical laughter--when the Marx Brothers are around...