Blount begins his tale with a visit to the Thalia, an upper-west-side Manhattan theater where Duck Soup was being shown in a matinee. Kids were in the audience, young ones, 6, 7 years old. Their reaction was to be amazed. My personal experience with kids and the Marx Brothers was not so fortunate. I...
recently read a review that claimed this book was a scene-by-scene look at the classic Marx Bros. movie Duck Soup (1933). First of all, that reviewer must have jumped to that conclusion and written the review before reading the actual book because his statement couldn't be further from the truth. Ha...