Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, Gummo
tee hee hee
my name is lamo marx
yup dat's me
lurkin' in de parks
in ma bare feets
groucho stole my clarcks
behine da trees
sneaky lil narcs
on der knees
teef like sharks'
zeppo pingin'
wif dem larks
chico zingin'
fru dem quarks
angels singin'
everbody harks
ain't no dog
jes because i barks
gummo gummin''
him come runnin
harpo strummin'
hootchie kootchie
hootchie kootchie
amen
enuffa dat.
by lamo (aka Polly?) (purely speculative)
Groucho impersonator Frank Ferrante and not the one, the only.
"Then we had a sister. She wasn't really our sister, she was an adopted sister. The father of that sister had gotten a look at this girl and fled to Canada, and we never saw him again. But the girl stayed with us, and her name was Polly. Polly didn't... She wasn't a bad looking girl, but her rear end stuck a-way out. You could play pinochle on her rear end." Groucho, from "An Evening With Groucho"(Thanks to fellow blogger, docnad, of Attempted Bloggery for letting me know the true identity of the "Groucho" in the above photograph.)
Polly, or Pauline, was the daughter of Groucho's aunt Hannah, who was Minnie Marx's sister. The paternity of Polly is uncertain, but she was probably conceived after the death or disappearance of Hannah's first husband. It is likely that Sam and Minnie Marx adopted Polly, and it appears they fibbed about the date of their marriage to make it look like Polly was was their own legitimate child. The record shows Sam and Minnie were married January 18, 1885, but they moved the date back a year to 1884 in future records, to accommodate the January, 1885 birth of Polly.
A Marx Sister?
That second photo is Groucho impersonator Frank Ferrante and not the one, the only.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know that, Doc. I'll make note of it beneath the picture.
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