Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage

ISBN-13: 9780810145757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 552 str.

Robert S. Bader

Spis treści

• Introduction 
• Prologue - The Old Country
  I. THE MARXIAN PREHISTORIC
• 1. The House on 93rd Street
• 2. Uncle Al, Gene Leroy and Johnnie Morris
• 3. On the Road with Master Julius Marx
  II. THE NIGHTINGALES, ALMA SCHANG AND THE UBO
• 4. Ned Wayburn’s Nightingales
• 5. A Nightingale Sang in Coney Island
• 6. Four Nightingales and Six Mascots 
  III. THE BUMPY ROAD TO THE BIG-TIME
• 7. The Metamorphosis: The Three Marx Bros. & Company in Fun in High School
• 8. Pantages, the White Rats and “Peasie Weasie”
• 9. Changing Partners: Gordon, Shean and Lee
  IV. AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR
• 10. The Four Marx Bros. & Company in Mr. Green’s Reception
• 11. The Sex Lives of the Marx Brothers and Other Catastrophes of 1913
• 12. Chicago’s Only Lady Producer of Vaudeville Attractions
• 13. Home Again and Broken Hearts
  V. THE BUMPIER ROAD TO BROADWAY
• 14. Home Again...And Again, and Again, and Again
• 15. The Five Marx Brothers and How They Became a Quartet...Again
• 16. A Show By Any Other Name
• 17. On The Mezzanine Floor with a Smudge of Grease Paint
• 18. On the Balcony, the Mauritania, and Albee's Blacklist 
  VI. FROM THE ASHES TO THE TALKIES
• 19. I'll Say She Is
• 20. The Toast Of Broadway
• 21. The Cocoanuts
• 22. Talkies, Animal Crackers and the Death of Vaudeville 
  VII. THE END OF THE ROAD
• 23. The Last of Minnie and the Crash of '29
• 24. The Four Marx Brothers And How They Became A Trio... Again 
• Epilogue - The End of a Dream Come True
• Appendix -The Marx Brothers Stage Chronology (1905-1945)
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements